I've recently bought some reels second hand, and they've come loaded with Fox Exocet 15lb line...

Orange line!?

It looks in decent CI dirion and had a day session on it, but was wondering does the colour actually matter? The blurb on Fox's site says orange is one of first colours to disappear in water.

In trying to stack the odds in my favour - should I re/spool just in case, or is consensus it doesn't matter, and with lime lay and alt ideas, I can mitigate the colour?

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Cool thanks for that, seems reasonable ish prices!?

Has anyone done any 121's or tutorials with any one recently (famous or otherwise)?

I've seen Adam Penning does an Acadmy type thing for £4.99 a month, and also does tuition (however unsure of that cost)..

Just wondering as be great to see people's thoughts or recommendations

Hi all, looking for some advice on a new water please.

Context:

6 acres / 14 pegs
Around 70 fish, including 8-10 30's
Very tricky water - group of active members
Can be weedy in summer, active bloodworm beds
Fair bit of small fry and Perch
Snaggy trees all around edges, overhanging into margin areas
Silty sand on bottom, chod and leaves and stuff around margins
2-3ft shallow one end to around 7ft in deepest end
No boats or zigs
No one fishes large beds of bait / unpopular approach
Carp seem to spook off fresh beds of bait
Busy ish lake so unable to launch a send it pre-baiting approach
Most people seem to fish solid bags, stiff hinged rigs, no one seems to be spodding or on chods..
Various known spots throughout lake

How would you approach this water?

I'm thinking markering to find ‘areas', bait up when I leave, and try chods and alt or different approaches...

What think, what am I missing?

Hi all some advice please..

Looking to move onto the Free Spirit 10ft Helical SPM Rod...

What reel / reel size would you recommend, as have some Aerlex Spod ones but they seem bit big for 10ft's..?

Hi all, am looking to upgrade to some 10's as signing a new water and not so much space on banks and swims...

Am looking at either Korda 10ft Kaizens or Gardener Covert 10ft 3.25TC...

Whats your thoughts / recomendations?

Hi all, will the 5500 spool work and lift and shift onto my Shimano Ultegra CI4+ 14000's?!

Is the main difference just the spool size?

I'm moving over to some 10ft rods, and love the reels and want to keep them, just wondering as think the 5500 ‘size' might balance the rods out better?

Cheers

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Interested in this as I'm close to picking up a set of the same 10ft this week..

Would love to hear thoughts and feedback too

I've recently picked up the Fortis X Snugpack one in Large and am chuffed, super warm, looks and feels great, well chuffed with it

Hi all looking for some advice if ok.

Fished Chods lots of times, but I'm looking at playing around with the swivel end, and adding like a quick change Q-ring to it instead of the normal arrangement..

Reason is everytime I change rigs I'm breaking down my whole set up, losing stop beads and so on, and was wondering if had some sort of quick change ring or swivel incorporated, would be quicker and easier...

Has anyone done anything similar? Is there any better ways of doing it?