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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 obsessed with stocking carp tackle of all sorts, spod rods, waggler rods and so on, hardly any of which I've any idea about. I just want a slim, long, lissom *lightweight* float rod such as my old rods used to seem when I was in my teens/twenties! Ian |
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