Getting back on topic I tried Fjuka yesterday and apart from tiddlers nibbling it, I didn’t get a bite. I tried red and white on the hook, on a hair, shaped like a maggot but to no avail. I don’t know about it being the best bait since the maggot but more like the worst bait since the tripe and onion boilie.
I also saw a guy fishing a pole and a float rod at the same time. He didn’t catch on either and his pole( Maver Genesis) was the longest pole I have even seen and as large in diameter at the butt end as a drainpipe. It was clearly heavy as the guy was using a rod rest set high.
Maver did two versions of the Genesis .
The original one was 16 metres ,I think RRP was £750 but on offer at around £500 it had what I thought was a "soft" touch number four and five . They felt spongy .
I contacted Maver and I spoke to Dave Wesson who was there at the time .
He said it was to absorb the bend in those two sections , He was right , I got snagged by a 10lb carp and basically I put 10metres of pole just short of vertical and pulled hard , the pole bent and the carp came free. I have also stood on a seatbox with 16 metres of that pole more or less vertical to land a large carp on light elastic .
I sold the pole to a friend to finance my next pole purchase , then a few years later bought it back off him , then not long after someone made me a decent offer for it .
I digress ,The later version of the genesis was 13metrs as standard .
For it to be as large as a drainpipe ,he must have been putting various makes of butt ends up it to make it longer .
That would upset the balance and it would have a bigger droop than robin hood's bow .