nicky
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Went fishing with my fishing buddy who has fished for a few years but only for carp using 2.5lb test curve rods and heavy line.
Since he has been fishing with me i have been introducing him to more general coarse fishing.
He wanted a float rod and a feeder rod and was going to get some of the avanti stuff from dragon carp.
I told him that by the time you pay postage i could probably get you a couple of maver rods on offer for not much more.
I showed him my maver abyss x float rod fantastic rod i had for just over £30 superlight carbon and good quality.
Went out yesterday with the rods only second time he used them and he pulled the line to hard on his float rod and bent the tip right round and snapped the tip. (i warned him a few days earlier when i saw him do this that the tackle s much more delicate than the heavy carp rods he used to and to be careful or he might snap it).
I was gutted for him.
Whilst still reeling from this disaster ten minutes later he went to cast his new feeder rod didnt check behind him and feeder caught on a fence and almighty crack and his new feeder rod lay snapped in half i just couldnt believe it.
Now under any other circumstances i would have laughed cause it was funny but it was so bad i just couldnt laugh i just looked at him dumbfounded.
I have broke many a rod in my time but not one so new and never two within ten minutes.
I wonder now whether he would have been better off with the avanti stuff whilst heavier and less responsive would probably have been made of carbon composite / fibre glass and been much more durable.
He complained after that the rods seemed very weak and thin to what he was used to i tried to explain thats what carbon is like wish he had just got the dragon carp stuff instead now.
Since he has been fishing with me i have been introducing him to more general coarse fishing.
He wanted a float rod and a feeder rod and was going to get some of the avanti stuff from dragon carp.
I told him that by the time you pay postage i could probably get you a couple of maver rods on offer for not much more.
I showed him my maver abyss x float rod fantastic rod i had for just over £30 superlight carbon and good quality.
Went out yesterday with the rods only second time he used them and he pulled the line to hard on his float rod and bent the tip right round and snapped the tip. (i warned him a few days earlier when i saw him do this that the tackle s much more delicate than the heavy carp rods he used to and to be careful or he might snap it).
I was gutted for him.
Whilst still reeling from this disaster ten minutes later he went to cast his new feeder rod didnt check behind him and feeder caught on a fence and almighty crack and his new feeder rod lay snapped in half i just couldnt believe it.
Now under any other circumstances i would have laughed cause it was funny but it was so bad i just couldnt laugh i just looked at him dumbfounded.
I have broke many a rod in my time but not one so new and never two within ten minutes.
I wonder now whether he would have been better off with the avanti stuff whilst heavier and less responsive would probably have been made of carbon composite / fibre glass and been much more durable.
He complained after that the rods seemed very weak and thin to what he was used to i tried to explain thats what carbon is like wish he had just got the dragon carp stuff instead now.
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