Hi Derek, thanks for the reply.
All understood, but it's the *weight*, not the action, of the oldies that's
putting this oldie off using them. Functionally they'll be as effective as
ever they were, (and they were!) it's me that's changed, with the advent of
arthritic hands etc.

Mind you I'm not quite ready for the humane killer yet

I've a couple of elderly Abu closed face reels I want to resurrect as well
as an old pal of a Rapidex, so it's not only pins I'll be using.



"Derek Moody" wrote in message
...
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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