In article , Alex
wrote:
In "my" day match rods were lightweight things (for the time) for snatching
large numbers of roachlets and skimmers etc from canals and other
stillwaters mainly, and made okay rods for light trotting for grayling too.
I've got two, a LERC-blanked homebuild of 12 feet, and an Edgar Sealey 14
foot biggie. Both hollow glass. I've mostly done fly fishing for a longish
time, and never updated my coarse rods.

Now in my fifties I've decided to revert to type and get in some trotting
hours on the Tay system this coming winter for grayling. But having got used
to fly rods of eleven feet or so that only weigh perhaps 4oz, I find that my
old hollow-glass match/float rods feel like telegraph poles...

Are *light* float rods made in carbon these days? Coarse tackle dealers seem

They exist and tackle dealers in areas where they have customers for them do
stock them. I find them (mostly) to be too fast actioned though: For
grayling trotting** - especially with a centrepin reel, you want a limber,
slowish action and for this reason I still use my old hollow glass rods.

Cheerio,

** You're picking up a lot of line but fishing shallow so a fast action
causes tangles.


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