my rods are mad dragons.
my reels are shimano bait runner d.
my line is sufix 14lb copo tritainium line.
my pod is a fox horrizon.

I'll tell you when I get a big buff and monster carp!!!

13ft Nick Buss Parallel Butt Specials
Diawa sportsmatic 6000
30lb PowerPro with 30lb Pline CXX shock leaders
Fox Skypod with Fox LXR's and Solar swingers

Or

12ft 2.75 Fox Warrior XT's
Shimano Reels
Solar Croc Pod with second gen Delkims and Delkim nitelites and swingers
Same line on these reels

nice one sir!!!

let me rephrase it.. what is your carping gear.

being a newbie, i pieced together my euro gear from trades, and very generous TFF members.

2- 12' bfs extreme distance carper carbon rods
2- Daiwa regal plus 5500
14 lb suffix seige line 50;b powerpro shock leader
BFS Centron Pod
prologic alarms
bfs swingers

its working so far, looking forward to a new set of alarms, but otherwise im pretty happy with what ive got.

I have yet to get a monster buff either.

Grey's Prodigy Plus 50 rods 12 ft 3.5 TC
Daiwa Infinity XBR 5000 reels
Fox Sky Pod (aka Podzilla)
Delkim EV Plus
Matrix Sweeper swingers
Sufix Siege camo 14lb. mono

Daiwa Maddragon rods
Daiwa Opus Plus 4500bri reels
Stren clear blue 17lb.
Optonic alarms and swingers
BFS Centron Pod

Still to catch my first Euro Carp!

ill take you out next time.

Im gonna need some pointers.This is harder than I thought it would be!

I haven't caught any over about 12 lbs and most have been in 5-8 lb range but I snagged 3 of the Cabelas King Kat Baitffed Combos when they ran them on sale for $24.99 last year ,spooled them with 25 lb Big Game mono, bought 3 used alarms transmitter and pager from a TFF'r and rigged up two bank buddies........

Chum.....fish....chum....fish ......chum some more.......corn and maize has been better for me......

sonik sk4 3.5tc or my falcons 6'6 medium action spinning for a battle
daiwa emcast plus
12 pound big game
15 pound fox cortex hook link
2.5oz inline semi fixed lead.
size 6 korda wide gape
fluro yellow 11mm solar popups ester pineapple and 10mm rosehip boilie.

3.25TC Daiwa Mad Dragons
Okuma CD-50 Baitrunners
50lb Powerpro
20lb Spiderwire EZ Braid hooklink (junk! Don't use)

On my last camping trip I hooked up with three fish I could not stop at a big fish lake. One bent my hook after a 70 yard run and cranking my drag down, one broke the junk hook link above (tested after at 7lb breaking strain!) and the third ran me into a snag after a 50 yard run we could not get out even using the boat and I was afraid to put too much pressure initially after the first two incidents.

Bottom line to me is end tackle is also critically important, maybe more so than rod or reel depending on how far out you need to fish.

yup.its a long process but i will teach you.