I have seen one of our club members using an 18-20 rod for carp and he did not seem to have any problems with it, ok a near 13lb fish took a bit of time to land but it would have on a pole anyway, at the time they were being talked of as a useful margin method as there were few if any margin poles, hydro was in its infancy if even out and a great deal of poles were only rated to a 14 elastic.
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