Hi and welcome
you are in quite a well known area for carp fishing
I would try ddaps club as a starting point
or just pop into somewhere like the tackle box and ask in there
are you looking at clubs, or day tickets or syndicates
I’m surprised luke Moffat actually lets you use a hook at all with some of the rules lol.
“mon ami this is Luke Moffat signing off from France..” anyone remember those days haha
I looked at the dji mini
think from memory they were around the 350 mark
my son in law uses his for a side hussle checking people gutters and roofs etc at £30 a pop. saves the scaffold or ladders etc
made a few quid at it a swell so it paid for the drone
Better man than me
I couldn’t think of anything worse than having all that choice to go for lol
i have 2 pots of mixed colours and sizes in 1 pot and carry 2 of them so have 2 different flavours.
the pots are the size of a strident tube so carry about 20 baits
1 is mulbs and one is tutti fruiti but that is depending on the time of year
I thought fish only had a memory of about 5 seconds or whatever they say …
I really wouldn’t worry about it and just use it
be interesting to try it in the fly fishing genre as you can use more than one hook there
have you smelt tungsten products????
jag pens smell
boilies smell and those smells are alien to fish 😉
There is a thread running on the other forum you just joined posted a couple of weeks ago you could look at
tbh
I haven’t got it but I read the thread and saved the link to the gear you purchased
I think if you stick to the named brands you won’t go far wrong
I have a mix of everything from
daiwa shimano fox and okuma sonik wychwood and never had any troubles with any of them
Why not use the old reels if you are happy with them
few examples to look at
daiwa ninja range
daiwa ss2600
daiwa gs4000
okuma reels also get good write ups
perfect solution to “what to do with that water that is now tepid in the hot water bottle from the night before” lol
chuck it in a pan to warm the gas bottle up
My fishing buddy uses silstar carp rods but they are an old model
years ago they were quite common in the uk but they seem to not be pushed so much these days
My father in law had a silstar trout rod that was usually the rod that come out of the bag.
I inherited (made sure)I got that one when he died as it’s a great rod.
thinking about it I can think of quite a number of silstar products used by someone I know over the years
I found this site
https://www.ozfinchasers.com.au/product-category/fishing-rods/casting-rods/
I know I could manage with a set up from there so now depends on your budget
Just get a spinning rod about 11/12 foot 50/60g and a reel between 4000 & 6000 size
line would be 0.32mm and 0.4mm
hooks between size 6 and 10
the only thing you would then Need would be a bite alarm but you can get that after
might not be perfect but would definitely get you a few