feeder rod for silver fish

stillwater blue · Mar 5, 2013

Is everybody fishing commercials or a big fish hunter these days?

I'm looking for suggestions for a new feeder rod that I plan to use to target just silver fish in both running and still waters. Something that comes with both carbon and glass tips less than 1oz would be perfect. Does such a rod still exsists today?

Something less than £150 would be ideal

nicepix · Mar 5, 2013

Maver Powerlite 12ft 3 piece Feeder Rod | eBay

Haven't used it yet so can't comment on that but its well under budget and has some very fine tips.

jimlad · Mar 5, 2013

If you can find a second hand drennan im8 bomb rod or drennan light feeder, grab it! £50 is usually a successful bid....

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mick b · Mar 5, 2013

I only fish rivers.

My feeder rods are the Grauvell Specialist Light.
These brilliant rods come with an Avon top section as well as the quiver top section and 3 tips, a fine and medium both glass and a carbon heavy.
The fine tip will show a mayfly landing on it and the medium will show a 4" grayling bite beautifully and still handle a 5lb Chub in a strong flow.

The tackle shop in Thame does them for £55 and if you get two (or three like me) they do a very low P&P deal.

tigger · Mar 5, 2013

jimlad said:
If you can find a second hand drennan im8 bomb rod or drennan light feeder, grab it! £50 is usually a successful bid....

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I was gonna say the very same

. Another excellent rod is the shimano technium specialist quiver rod at 11ft 3inch, 5 tips from 3/4 of an ounce to 2 1/2 once, perfect rod for silver fish or even chub.

S-Kippy · Mar 5, 2013

Dont know the Drennan rods but I have a Grauvell LT and its a very good river quiver. though the avon top is fit only for growing beans up IMO.Shaky Mach 2 Wand is a belter too but probably a bit lacking for river work in anything other than gentle flows. Cheap as chips too.

jimlad · Mar 5, 2013

S-Kippy said:
Dont know the Drennan rods but I have a Grauvell LT and its a very good river quiver. though the avon top is fit only for growing beans up IMO.Shaky Mach 2 Wand is a belter too but probably a bit lacking for river work in anything other than gentle flows. Cheap as chips too.

I've still never found a use for the avon top....

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frothy · Mar 5, 2013

I bought a used preston super feeder which has glass and carbon tips, it's nice for still water but I tend to struggle with glass tips in most rivers with any amount of flow, I used it targeting some small chub but kept on missing bites with the glass tips so i swapped to my purist feeder with a 4oz carbon tip and managed to convert most of the bites! Strange as I would expected the the reverse

S-Kippy · Mar 5, 2013

jimlad said:
I've still never found a use for the avon top....

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And I doubt you ever will. Its absolutely rubbish and doesn't even feel like it belongs to that rod. I threw mine away.

Sorry...I was speaking of the Grauvell but if you meant generally ie all twin tip rods then I wouldn't disagree either. In my experience twin tippers are usually excellent quiver rods and extraordinarily average or poor "avon" rods.

jimlad · Mar 5, 2013

I meant in general, not found a use at all!

sam vimes · Mar 5, 2013

There's plenty of match type feeder rods out there that will fit the bill.
There are also a few light specialist/avon rods that will also do the job.

Terry D · Mar 6, 2013

Daiwa Connoisseur 11/13ft Still Water Quiver, still around and a very versatile tool.

feeder rod for silver fish

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