Safe Zone Leader Clay

The Safe Zone principle came about through filming the State of the Art Underwater Carp Fishing films and Underwater 7 & 8. There can be no better way of learning about carp's behaviour around rigs than actually filming them in their natural environment. Every time we make a film there is no way we can show all the underwater footage that we record, it has to be edited severely just to get the films down to four hours!

Sadly, this means that many of the patterns that emerge as a result of watching the fish non-stop cannot be fully shown in the films. Watching a pattern emerge is quite simply priceless, each film has shown something new but one common theme runs through them all: THE FISH KNOW THEY ARE BEING FISHED FOR!

Make no mistake, the rig you are using at this very moment can be seen by the carp, and the brighter the sun and the clearer the water the more it stands out. Fortunately, competitive feeding and being lucky enough for the rig to lay right every now and again does lead to captures. However, don’t kid yourself, your rig's ability to blend into its background will affect your run rate. The less they feel they are being fished for, the more bites you will get.

This totally unique experience has shown us that if we can create a 'Safe Zone' around the hook bait then we will get more bites. This is why we were the first company to sell several different colours of all our rig items so that you have the option of matching your rig to the lake bed it will be resting on.

So how do we know the new Safezone leaders really do blend in? Because we actually took samples of the different types of lake bed and sent them to the manufacturers so they could colour match to some actual silk weed, gravel, silt and clay. To you and I the colours may not look right but simply drop them in on the type of lake bed we say they are suited to and watch them disappear. After significant public demand, we have even added a clear colour to compliment the range.