I have been doing a bit of research on the subject of the red line and for the water i fish i can not see many times i will be in over 12ft of water, it is more the angle that the line goes in the water at, i put the rod as low as possible but think that these carp are going to be a bit more wary so want to pin a fair bit of line back down, i have found an article on esp anchor tubing, is this ok safe to use compared to leadcore?.
I have always used mono, so would not know where to start with floro carbon line, what make/brands would you reccommend?
As a bit of share of info i have used the fox camelon soft steel line and had some good results compared with the dirct mono, even tho the fox was thicker.
Also as you can probably tell i am a bit of a virgin carper, i am going to prebait, how many boilies are usually used as i read so many varing amounts, i want to keep the fish intrested but not full, i am dealing with a shoal of about 20-30 carp varing from 10-25lb but the river also has a good head of bream that seem to be sticking with the carp. I am going to feed a groundbait with hemp, pellets, vitalin and sweetcorn as well as brown crumb my baiting campaign is going to be over a few weeks to build there confidence up.
By the way i will also take this opportunity to thank you in advance for your time in answering my post, i just want a change from barbel hunting this coming season.