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Old September 3rd, 2006, 09:10 AM posted to uk.rec.fishing.coarse
Alex
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Default Match Rods

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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