No not really you could probably get a two rod set up for say ÂŁ100:00 bits and bobs ÂŁ50:00 and don't waste money on all these expensive designer baits, either make your own or use cheap luncheon meat, Carp are basically pigs with fins, they will eat anything, a lake I used to fish was next to a transport caff sausage fried bread bacon dog ends, you name it they eat it.But that can be an expensive sport nowadays too, but not as expensive as golf ! To start from scratch would come to quite a few bob