INTERNAL OR EXTERNAL FOR CARP?

The choice of whether to use either internal or external pole bushes for carp fishing is very much a personal one, but there is one simple guideline to follow.

To play carp correctly, with large diameter elastics over size 10, you need to cut some pole tips back a long way. This prevents them bending too much when you lift to net a fish - if the tip bends too much the elastic will stick to the inside of the top section. How far you cut back the tip may determine which type of bush you can fit. If you cut it back a long way to make it ultra stiff, the internal diameter of the tip may be too large to fit a standard internal bush. In this case use an XLarge Internal Bush or a Stretch Slip Bush. Many top anglers remove the number one section and fit an internal or external Stretch Slip Bush straight onto their number 2 section. This produces an ultra stiff tip and guarantees smooth elastic performance.