>>12373219ft 6wt Cabelas combo ftw. Can get a good one for 100-120 that comes with a case. 9ft 6wts are good 'all around' rods that can sling everything from size 20s to size 4 streamers pretty well.
On another note - fuck carp. Why are they so picky? Chumming, flies, hell the only way I seem to get a decent shot at them is with a spear. Tied a few carp flies (Headstand/carpnasty).....slung them with a light tippet right out in front of a few feeding ones and they just watched it. That's it. Caught quite a few bass and bluegill off them but god damn.
Tied this fucker too. The flyboy's senko lol