In reply to Post #12
Got to say I've never owned Neville's and havent seen many backside so havent heard them when I started carping I must say the sound of the old optonics was spot on

In reply to Post #1
I fished it a few times quite a deep lake, fished the top end of lake on last trip had a 28 of the island , had a small double from car park swim stalking as well, as always best advice I could give from my experience is little bait and and the obvious find the fish

In reply to Post #1
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In reply to Post #12
I was an avid user of the shimano technium black line up until this season and went onto the loaded xt loaded sank well good colours and good knot strength but couldn't get the distance I wanted so changed to the standard xt cant see me changing line anytime soon meets every requirement I'm after

Sitting by the lake and have heard a couple of runs and had one of my own,I've got ntxrs and love the polyphonic sound when zipped up on full sensitivity , what are your thoughts

Thanks for all your advice chaps

In reply to Post #1
All comes down to budget theres loads of good rods on the market best advice you could get is take the reel to local shop and try it on rods to see if they balance out my personal choice would be Harrison cerbera
Also you need to look at the lake your gonna fish distance size of fish playing action etc

In reply to Post #1
I was in the colne valley sat and Sunday night i dont think any one had anything over the weekend so done sat night on singles and nothing so put a good spread of boilies down Sunday night and had one on Monday that's pretty much my approach when doing 48hours as you cant take it out once in.

In reply to Post #10
No fascination was nazeing just my first choice I will be joining the met .I fish a lot on the lower Thames so dont believe it will be any worse than that,the parking situation is more of a worry but will be able to work that one out

In reply to Post #6
Got mixed feelings to be fair I think I will join as a very cheap water may start with doing days and see how I go and if the nazeing ticket come up then all good