I'm no expert, but a friend has asked me to convert a split cane, 14ft heavy Salmon rod into a Carp rod (it has 3 sections plus a spare tip, all eyes are agate lined). He wants the butt section cut down and re corked, like a Chapman's 500/550, and the eyes shifted around to suite, this will leave him with a 12ft (approx) heavy rod, (I did tell him I have no idea what it will work like). The tip sections are quite a bit larger across the flats compared to my 550, and so on right down the rod. Maybe this would be a cheaper way of trying a cane rod, than some of the prices that would be charged by the makers mentioned in the thread, but as I don't fish for Carp that large, or at long distances, maybe I'm not the one to comment.
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