Sounds like you have purchased a 4 metre whip that is intended for catching small fish by fishing to hand with the rig length being almost as long as the whip, the rig on a whip is normally attached via stonfo type fitting that is glued on in-place of the ring your local tackle dealer should be able to sort one out, alternatively you could run some elastic through one or two sections and treat it as a very short pole, I would suspect that the elastics on the rigs you have purchased are only to retain the rig on the winder.
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