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Thanks all for your great advise as usual! Habe a happy and the health Easter! The rod will arrive tomorrow and I will See which of your recommendations I will go for :-)

Thanks much for the advise! I should have mentioned that I am not too keen on baitrunner reels but Eil for sure consider them as an option. Or the fighting drag version that is... :-)

As some might remember I am the proud owner of a pair of Chimera 3s (following your recommendations here :-)) and also had a pair of 11ft 1.75lbs Chimeras built on new old stock blanks recently. So I guess you could call me a Chimera fan now. Thats probably why I just bid successfully on a...

Sorry of course I meant hooklength...

My apologies as there have been countless debates about leader lengths and materials here. I read them but I am still unsure about the huge variety in leader length and materials people use. Eg. some are using carp-style shorter leaders (as I do) with braid or mono up to about 12in. Whereas...

Great idea. I have a few of these albeit somewhat short but will see... I like the Korum option as well! Thank you all as usual for your great advise! BR Marcus

Hello, how do you store your floats when you are stalking for chub, barbel etc.? I havent found a satisfying method or product made for the purpose so far. I am aware of the tubes but the floats rattle in there and get damaged. Best way I have found is to put them in a lunch box in plastic bag...

2009 time frame or before is probably about right as the rodbuilder says He has bought the blank about 20 years ago. He will build it for me for a super cheap price as no one wanted the blank in the last 20 years.... Go figure. If I am lucky I could be on to something with these as I just...

My Chimera 3s I bought after your great recommendations here are my goto carp and barbel rods for my local fishing on the river and small lak es. Fantastic rods. Absolutely live them! I have been offered seemingly old new stock Chimera blanks in 11ft 1.75lbs for a really good price. Couldnt...

I know this is a long shot but maybe someone has this rod pod from Ava lying around unused at home? I was once in the Ava Team and would like to have one of these again for sentimental reasons :-). Best regards and thank you Marcus

Inspired by all the recommendations here that the 11ft 2lbs Torrix are great rods both for barbel and carp I finally succumbed and ordered a pair of HARRISON TORRIX 11FT 2LB SURFACE RODS from Johnson Ross Tackle. Now I wonder if these rods by Johnson Ross and the rods described in this forum...

Very interesting, thank you for your comments. So currently I am leaning towards the torrix really as 11.5ft for the flood rod is just too long again as I will be using this rod for carp in lakes as well and have enough 12 footers. Free Spirit anyone? Any experience with 11footers there? Best...

You are right. I should have said not popular amongst carp fishermen and companies anymore as there are a lot of 9,10 and 12ft models available but only a handful of 11ft rods ready made

Thank you very much for your replies! Have bought the 12ft Barbel seekers this year... too Bad. Should have gone for the 11ft version and I might have been set already :-/. The Tamers are super rods for the money agreed. I have a few but they tend to be on the soft side compared to the...

Hi all, hope you and yours are all doing very well! After your fantastic recommendation for the Harrison Chimera 3s which basically cover almost all my needs for a river and small water carp/barbel rod, I am thinking of scaling down my rods to 2-3 pairs or great rods I always use. The Chimera...

Real beauties! Can you send pictures of the handles please? What guides were you using and hows the guide spacing? I think mine was spaced like a long range carp rod...which doesnt seem to be correct but they fish fantastic anyway. Maybe I should sell all the other rods and get myself spare...

Some months ago I asked here for the perfect barbel/carp do everything rod for fishing my local river in snaggy swims and often fast current. The Chimera 3 was well recommended by a lot here and I had a pair made by a friendly Irish rodmaker (easier to send here to Germany without custom fees...

Very interesting indeed! If its the usual Drennan quality this should be a real good one! Havent found any informations here reg. umbrellas but day shelters and brollies that are pegged to the ground. I have that. Really looking for an "umbrella" type of brolly.

Sorry maybe I meant a brolly :-). Will see what I can find here and would like to hear further options. Thanks much!

Your advise would be much appreciated! Currently looking for a high quality lightweight umbrella thats still robust enough to withstand some Wind an general abuse. I have a Korum day shelter but its very small and sometimes a basic umbrella is the better tool. Not looking for one of those...