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@ColinTheBald
Tackle is a lot like bikes, there's always something promising marginal gains, Scopes should be very good for fishing margins.
It's only the last few feet of your gear that the fish might actually see that matters, so long as the rest does the job it doesn't make the slightest difference. Saying that, I struggled to reach the 105 yards to a showing carp last week and started eyeing up distance rods (I caught it, not as big as it looked at 15lbs). I still use glass blanks I tested for Conoflex in the 80s for most of my piking, I have never found anything better and the pike don't appear to be snobbish about it.
Doing my first overnighter of the year for carp tomorrow, taking the tench and bream rods just in case, I will probably get a good night's sleep.