Note the gear. Alvey reel and ugly stick for casting distance. Berkeley 6 ft IMR graphite rods and Quantum 1420MG's, a special order casting reel with bait click for those reel spins. This is gear for the biggest carp you could possibly hook. But my problem here was casting out past the weed beds which were a full 60 yards off shore in this part of the river. This is not a problem I had in the Green Susquehanna river, or the coffee brown Schuylkill back home. Longer rods are a plus and near necessity here. The Iroquois Dam is in the back ground.