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Since there's a bit of chit chat about rods at the moment I thought i'd bring this problem up.
Anyone who knows me on here knows I like catching barbel on my float rods and in some of my chosen swims I need to play them quite hard to avoid them from reaching snaggs.
I have noticed that when playing powerfull fish hard like this some of my rods do seem to damge my line despite these rods having top quality guides.
The reason i'm bringing it up just now is because my line was damaged yesterday whilst playing a fish quite hard, the rod was a 13ft drennan acolyte.
I have the same problem with my hardy marksman specialist rods although it doesn't seem to happen so much with lines above my go to 6lb.
This problem doesn't happen with my other rods such as my normarks, marksman superos, old drennan rods etc.
I did see a video on youtube (the video is still on there i've just looked, if you want to see it click in hardy supero rods) where Dave Coster is in Ireland using hardy rods and he actually mentions that the guides on the specialists chewed up line and the the superos had been fitted with kinder fuji black alconites to combat this problem. I know I don't seem to get the line damage when using my superos.
I'm quite sure it's not down to the line i'm using which is usually sensor. Yesterday I was using 5lb bayer perlon straight through and it suffered far worse than the sensor with the acolyte.
Has anyone else had this problem with any rods in particular?
Anyone who knows me on here knows I like catching barbel on my float rods and in some of my chosen swims I need to play them quite hard to avoid them from reaching snaggs.
I have noticed that when playing powerfull fish hard like this some of my rods do seem to damge my line despite these rods having top quality guides.
The reason i'm bringing it up just now is because my line was damaged yesterday whilst playing a fish quite hard, the rod was a 13ft drennan acolyte.
I have the same problem with my hardy marksman specialist rods although it doesn't seem to happen so much with lines above my go to 6lb.
This problem doesn't happen with my other rods such as my normarks, marksman superos, old drennan rods etc.
I did see a video on youtube (the video is still on there i've just looked, if you want to see it click in hardy supero rods) where Dave Coster is in Ireland using hardy rods and he actually mentions that the guides on the specialists chewed up line and the the superos had been fitted with kinder fuji black alconites to combat this problem. I know I don't seem to get the line damage when using my superos.
I'm quite sure it's not down to the line i'm using which is usually sensor. Yesterday I was using 5lb bayer perlon straight through and it suffered far worse than the sensor with the acolyte.
Has anyone else had this problem with any rods in particular?