Have you got a Boyes store round your way,they do short 6" 8" Fladen spinning rods for £15 £20,they have large eyes and make good stalking rods.I have a 1oz casting weight 6 footer and I have had carp to 15lb on it.
They brought out GT80,I presume it was meant to be an up-grade.
I did'nt like it and nowhere sells it anymore so I suppose the majority
of other peeps thought it was cack...
The Fox one is designed to be used with a 3oz lead,
if you use the Korda surface float you may have to
play around with lead sizes to find the most suitable
size.
I am pretty sure they would work though...
Recently started fishing with mostly semi fixed leads,I just push a tail rubber over my swivel then push the lead over the tail rubber.There is enough friction to have a bolt effect and then the lead just slides up the line...
I think that one of the problems with safe-zone leaders is that peeps think the safe in safe-zone means they are engineered to be safe,where as in fact it means the fish think they are in a safe-zone to feed in...
Typical an interesting post comes along and all peep's want to do is go off topic.
I always buy the "Best of Album" that way you can't really go wrong ...