smudger172
Well-known member
Looking back over half a century of fishing,It got me thinking how much tackle has changed especially rods. The early sixty's saw me peddling to the local canal with a cane rod that was so heavy tied to the crossbar with a duffel bag on my back holding every other piece of kit i owned including a tiny chair that folded out that clipped open with a cloth seat. You know the sort. The rod changed to a solid 9ft fibre glass on my tenth birthday, still heavy. And then to a MATCH rod, 3 piece 12ft hollow glass when i started my paper round..
Fast forward a few years a mini instead of a bike and the specimen hunting as it was called then started.
I had a pair of fibretube 1 1/4 lb test rods that were used for barbel,chub,bream and tench.
1 3/4 rods were used when carp fishing and 2lb were used for piking. Even when i fished lake cassien in 1986 the rods were 2 1/4.
Fast forward to today and there seems to be so many different float rods. barbel rods are up to 2 3/4 and carp and pike rods up to 3 3/4.
Has it changed that much.. What do you think.
Fast forward a few years a mini instead of a bike and the specimen hunting as it was called then started.
I had a pair of fibretube 1 1/4 lb test rods that were used for barbel,chub,bream and tench.
1 3/4 rods were used when carp fishing and 2lb were used for piking. Even when i fished lake cassien in 1986 the rods were 2 1/4.
Fast forward to today and there seems to be so many different float rods. barbel rods are up to 2 3/4 and carp and pike rods up to 3 3/4.
Has it changed that much.. What do you think.