pole elastication advice

[TF_petebm]

Hi, after returning from about 15 years out of match fishing I am still elasticating my pole with regular elastic and after fishing a couple of matches have started to think about using hollow elastic – i currently use 10’s and 12’s for commercial carp fishing which I have landed upto 8lb carp on however it took a while and had to use 4 or 5 sections to land the fish.

my question is should i move to hollow elastics? should i use a puller bung and could i use a puller bung with standard elastic?

any help would be appreciated, cheers

[TF_AdzTParticipant]

if you have 4 or 5 sections in the air you possibly will end up breaking your pole pretty soon. i would go hollows and pulla bungs, i would reccommend the frenzee elastics.

[TF_andynorth2003Participant]

Buy some Preston pulla bungs and use double 5, double 6 or double 8 elastic which will cover most of your fishing, apart from catching margin zoo creatures.
you can either buy the original Preston slip and double the lengths yourself (what I do) or buy the Preston stuff thats already doubled up.
Much cheaper than most hollows to get you used to catching carp on top kits and pulla bungs.

[TF_petebm]

cheers chaps, dont fancy breaking my pole so will get it sorted, thinking about doubling the elastic up sounds like a good idea.

thanks for the help, much appreciated!

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