Lord Paul of Sheffield
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I pick my rod with the venue and target in mind but I will often take my 10ft Maver match rod in case I fish a tight swim , it's a decent rod that has landed carp to 8/9lb and also good for silver fish
Do you have a go to rod
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robtherake
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Not as such, but a pair of 1lb TC Fox Avons have had more big fish between them than the 30-odd others put together. I have to confess a liking for short float rods, though, and a Pro Performance ten footer is so much fun to use it gets taken everywhere.
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Not really. I have so many bloody rods I try to use them on rotation so nobody feels left out. I had a " go to" years ago which an odd 11ft Normark sort of Avon type thing which could do pretty much anything I wanted of it then. I miss that one very much......nothing quite like it around nowadays.
robtherake
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Rather like S-Kippy I too have far too many rods and most of them are designed for a specific purpose, so in that respect I don't really have a "go to" rod.
That said, and when fly fishing any lake or still water I do tend to opt immediately for my 9'6" Sage Z-Axis #6 model as a great starting point.
That said, and when fly fishing any lake or still water I do tend to opt immediately for my 9'6" Sage Z-Axis #6 model as a great starting point.
steve2
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The rods out of my collection that get the most use over the season are my two old model Greys 1lb tc 11ft specimens and my Spinning rods. The rest stay virtually unused. I can’t remember the last time my poles saw the light of day.
sam vimes
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No, horses for courses, and plenty of choice, means that I'll never have a go to rod. I'll never be convinced that one rod will do everything I want to do perfectly. I don't like compromising.
However, I do far more float fishing than anything else, so my float rods get far more use than anything else. I do occasionally find myself getting bees in my bonnet, picking venues and tactics to suit a certain rod/reel set up.
However, I do far more float fishing than anything else, so my float rods get far more use than anything else. I do occasionally find myself getting bees in my bonnet, picking venues and tactics to suit a certain rod/reel set up.
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binka
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No go to rod for me, the rod I have been using the most during the close season is my light float rod but that will change shortly to a heavier, longer float rod for the river along with a heavy avon for the lead.
I think overall my pair of 1lb t/c Avons will probably see the most use over an entire season but like many it's horses for courses.
I think overall my pair of 1lb t/c Avons will probably see the most use over an entire season but like many it's horses for courses.
flightliner
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As said, no go to rod but plenty of "I go to" rods, all down to what I fancy fishing for really.
Lord Paul of Sheffield
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For go to rod I'm thinking of a rod that get put in your rod back most often if not always used
For example , if I'm going to fish a water that holds a good stock of carp I'll look to fish a rod that will be appropriate but I will rake a light rod just in case the carp aren't feeding
For example , if I'm going to fish a water that holds a good stock of carp I'll look to fish a rod that will be appropriate but I will rake a light rod just in case the carp aren't feeding
sam vimes
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It's still a no from me. In the situation you describe, I may take a lighter rod in case the carp don't play, but I'd still have different length light rods to choose from, depending on the depth of the venue and the tightness of the swims. There's not much point in taking my 11' light rod if the venue is 8'+ deep. There's no point in making life difficult by using a 13'+ light rod in tight birdcage swims. It's always horses for courses for me.
itsfishingnotcatching
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Always take the Abyss X 10'0 if I'm fishing a pool, always take the Floatmaster 13-15'0 if I'm on a river, they don't always get used but I like to know they're there if I need them
Alan Tyler
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Back in the gloomy days of post-war austerity that I call "childhood", most anglers aspired to owning two rods, a 10'6" bottom-rod with a built-cane tip, the rest whole cane; and a Nottingham-style one, eleven feet and (perhaps) a bit, with built cane middle and tip (very posh and pricey).
What schoolboys and men with families to feed usually ended up with was one bottom-rod for "best", and a broken one, with the tip ring whipped back onto the remains of the tip, for legering and pike-fishing.
Only the well-off, and hard-working single men, could afford specialist match rods and MkIV-style specimen rods. We mere mortals read of their exploits and dreamt.
Then along came fibreglass, and almost everyone had access to at least one half-decent rod, even if it was only a standard bottom rod with a solid glass tip replacing the split cane, and most started to need a rod-holdall.
I became an angling schizophrenic: the scientifically-trained, Walker-inspired late teen scraping his dosh together for a Taperflash and a North-Western carp blank; the romantic remnant of the "Winnie-the-Pooh"-reading, Peter Scott-watching boy still hankering after the cane beauties I'd never been able to afford.
Eventually, cane prices tumbled, as carbon pushed glass into the history books, and I established quite a thicket of bamboo, and a lab cupboard of carbon, but I never lost the mind-set that most coarse fishing outside the "specimen hunting" realms of carp, pike , and post-modern super-barbel fishing, could be covered with a bottom rod, a Nottingham rod, and a "match" rod.
I now find myself packing a "Harcol" Nottingham rod, a Milbro bottom-rod and a nameless, ferruleless, Spanish reed, twelve-foot match rod as my Go-To trio, but I feel naked with fewer, unless I'm going for a one rod, one method quickie, or doing something that forces me to break out the carbon (glass, if lightning threatens).
If that puts my head where the sun doesn't shine, I can only wonder why the view is so pleasant.
What schoolboys and men with families to feed usually ended up with was one bottom-rod for "best", and a broken one, with the tip ring whipped back onto the remains of the tip, for legering and pike-fishing.
Only the well-off, and hard-working single men, could afford specialist match rods and MkIV-style specimen rods. We mere mortals read of their exploits and dreamt.
Then along came fibreglass, and almost everyone had access to at least one half-decent rod, even if it was only a standard bottom rod with a solid glass tip replacing the split cane, and most started to need a rod-holdall.
I became an angling schizophrenic: the scientifically-trained, Walker-inspired late teen scraping his dosh together for a Taperflash and a North-Western carp blank; the romantic remnant of the "Winnie-the-Pooh"-reading, Peter Scott-watching boy still hankering after the cane beauties I'd never been able to afford.
Eventually, cane prices tumbled, as carbon pushed glass into the history books, and I established quite a thicket of bamboo, and a lab cupboard of carbon, but I never lost the mind-set that most coarse fishing outside the "specimen hunting" realms of carp, pike , and post-modern super-barbel fishing, could be covered with a bottom rod, a Nottingham rod, and a "match" rod.
I now find myself packing a "Harcol" Nottingham rod, a Milbro bottom-rod and a nameless, ferruleless, Spanish reed, twelve-foot match rod as my Go-To trio, but I feel naked with fewer, unless I'm going for a one rod, one method quickie, or doing something that forces me to break out the carbon (glass, if lightning threatens).
If that puts my head where the sun doesn't shine, I can only wonder why the view is so pleasant.
mikench
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The last one I bought usually!! I collected my Middy 4gs micro muscle yesterday so cannot wait to try it.
I found my original rod a few weeks ago in the shed with one length missing. It was made and supplied by Tonbridge Wells Rods in about 1963. It was 2 part bamboo and one part fibreglass. I wish I had looked after it better!!
I found my original rod a few weeks ago in the shed with one length missing. It was made and supplied by Tonbridge Wells Rods in about 1963. It was 2 part bamboo and one part fibreglass. I wish I had looked after it better!!
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Since most of my fishing is trotting I mainly use float rods and usually prefer to use a stepped up version. I have a few of these and enjoy using them all so sort of rotate them as and when I feel like a change (as I do with my reels). I do have spells when I find myself using one set up for a spell and I suppose my most used rod is my normark avenger...just love it!
rayner
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No go to rod, it's all down to venue/tactics.
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since recently rediscovering feeder fishing and dragging my ancient kit built rod (self made in the early 70s) out of the shed i knew it was time for an upgrade soon enough, the hairy boss heard me berating it to my fishing buddy over the phone and two days later a shiny new Matt Hayes carp feeder hit the mat. the first cast with it hit the exact spot that i was looking at as if laser guided and has continued to do so ever since so unless full on speccy angling i only take the one rod everywhere and i have bust 4 PB's with it too