So, apparently, most of the groundbaits have very little effect when not used under ideal circumstances? What's the best way to go about figuring out what does work? The two rigs and my bait sampler took up almost the entire 200k I had. I don't think I caught a single fish on the carp rod and the fish I was catching on my other rods weren't any larger than normal. I was also spodding like people say to do, 5 at first then 1 every hour or so. I spent 2 or 3 hours last night with 1 carp rod (running method feed) and 2 standard bottom rods. I spent prolly 30k+ just on a little assortment and so far none of it seems to work. It seems like working with the higher-quality baits is incredibly expensive. Marshall, you say I'm supposed to set my gear around the lowest rating for the rod? So reel and line both at the bottom of that range? I had to try a few different setups before it stopped saying things were gonna break. Well, I already got a spod rod last night.

I'll have to figure it out sooner or later though. Yeah, I'm very concerned about the complexity of this. PS you also need to learn the weather/Temp/Wind direction/Depth of water/Type of lake bed ie silt/weed and look on your gps map for nice little deep spots is also good to help catch fish.

Originally posted by Bandit Destroyer:The spod rod is not a bad price but you can spend a lot of money on baits and mixs that dont work.some members on there fish with heavy bottom rods and use the rubber tree seeds which are cheap to buy for 300 at a time and they do catch a lot of big carp.you also need to know the spots for the fish to get the best results.Im level 65 rank 13 and have put in a lot of time on there and i only have 4 mix for the spod that do work.i have a few pva bag mix i use but they are made to fish on certain days ie rain/sun/cloud/the same goes for your hook bait.Rain days i use crab/krill/worm/fish meal baits on hook.Sunny days i use Tigernut/Banana/citrus/choco late/cloudy days i use citrus/spices/plumb/chocolate.

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