good man , to the fore with help again edit "cough cough cough cough £5.99 each for a bit of plastic "i can make my own and stick them on stainless welding rods " i am a bit tight mind !!!
tell me about it ! its been quite an eye opener for me ,yup started with fairy tops then slit plastic tubes and when i reached the big time got some monkey climbers , my biggest shock was the difference in the tc of rods now !!!!!!! when i started i used 1.75 conoflex blanks and 3/4 oz leads they handled everything ,now they are a bream rod tc !!!!!!!!!!! i appreciate that carp are generally bigger now, a 20 was a real good fish when i left 30 odd years back but does it really justify 3.25lb tc ? any way im going to use the methods i left way back as a starting point and see how it goes ! never been much of a follower of fashion