Rod advice

Hi all ,
This is my first post and am hoping to get some advice from more experienced anglers! I have been doing float fishing and feeder fishing for the last couple of seasons and own a couple of float rods and a light feeder rod.
I am looking to buy a rod or maybe a pair of rods to cover river fishing for barbel and chub and for using on some gravel pits I fish, aiming for tench and bream.
I appreciate there won't be a rod that does everything but have been looking at the free spirit advanced specialist rods,these look quite versatile.
Does anyone have any experience on these rods or recommendations on any others? I am thinking of maybe a 1.5lb rod and a heavier one around 2lb.

Thanks
Noddy

Hi Noddy,

Welcome to the forum.

Post what rods you currently own and where you intend to fish, these will probably be up to the job. Especially if you normally fish commercials.

I'm sure the members on here will advise you if not.

Most of my rods are too old to be classified but as long as you can fish the venue river/ stillwater efficiently using the gear then why splash out for something unnecessary.

noddy_88e said:

Hi all ,
Does anyone have any experience on these rods or recommendations on any others? I am thinking of maybe a 1.5lb rod and a heavier one around 2lb.

Thanks
Noddy

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What about getting yourself a rod like the Greys Prodigy Multi-tip Specimen rod?
This rod comes with both a 1.5lb tip section and a 2lb tip section and is a very good rod that (between the two tips) will handle lines between 3lb and 17lb (17lb that's not a misprint LOL) and the rod has a very nice through action that is perfect when fishing for Tench & Crucians right up to large Barbel and large Carp.

Keith (BoldBear)

What size fish are you targeting mate

Thanks everyone, I don't want to end up with loads of rods so the greys looks good. The reason I thought the free spirit ones were good was that they come with a quiver section and thought this May be useful.
I currently have a drennan tench float rod, a competition feeder and a drennan carp waggler.
The pits I have a ticket for have tench up to 10lb, bream to similar sizes and carp upto 30lb.
They are quite weedy too, the river is the Ouse so potential barbel upto 15lb ...I would like to catch!

Thanks

Does the feeder rod you have not have push in quiver tips ?

Sounds like a rod of 1.75tc would suit , the greys that someone recommend might be the ticket

Those Greys rods are nice. But I would never buy another Hardy or Greys rod again, the after sales guarantees is shocking. And not worth the paper it written on.

trotter2 said:

Those Greys rods are nice. But I would never buy another Hardy or Greys rod again, the after sales guarantees is shocking. And not worth the paper it written on.

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I have six Grey's rods and one Hardy rod (part of the same group) and have only ever had one fault with a faulty butt ring liner that kept popping out on one of my Barbel rods; and I just whipped on a replacement butt ring, and the problem was solved. I didn't have to use their lifetime warranty.

I agree that the so called lifetime warranty is misleading as it still costs around £30 for handling charges, which is a bit off, however they are excellent rods nontheless.

They never lock up (like other rods) when under strain from a big fish and their superb forgiving actions in their top sections and reserves of power in their butt sections means that I rarely feel that I am going to lose a big fish once I have hooked it.

If you saw the testing that they put the rod blanks through during the design stage you would almost certainly be amazed and realise why the blanks are so revered, it puts most other rod manufacturers and designers in the shade. I just wish they didn't build them in China though as the build quality has suffered since the build stage was moved from the UK over to China.

Keith (BoldBear)