New Tench Rod

steve2 · Jul 7, 2017

Looking for a new Tench float fishing rod

I looked at the Drennan Series 7 13ft Tench and Specimen Float rod and the 13ft Power Carp Waggler Rod. After reading the write up these appear to be the same rod so may be the name carp as been added to sell more. Is there a difference?

iain t · Jul 7, 2017

Drennan has just bought out 2 new 13ft Trench rod. One is a distance rod and the other a little softer in action. Meant to be the dog's wobbly bits. You will find the Tench and Specimen Float rod is a bit more beefed up that the Carp Waggler.

binka · Jul 7, 2017

I often wonder if these beefed up rods are made on the same mandrels as their lighter counterparts and just have an added wrap of carbon rolled on?

I'm not knocking it, I think it's a good idea really as it's a simple way of developing heavier rods subject to a bit of testing and tweaking in respect of the right amount and it might explain why some people say rods are essentially the same when really there are differences.

The Hardy 13' Specialist & Specimen float rods set me off down this path of thought, they are practically identical in dimension except for the slightly thicker blank but it works a treat.

iain t · Jul 7, 2017

I have no idea how they beef a rod up. but they seem very clever how they do it. It can't just extra few wraps as i would have thought it would change the action altogether. Saying that ive owned a couple of series 7 Carp feeder rods in the past. One being a Competition Feeder and the other a Carp feeder both 12ft. They did look the same but acted totally different

tigger · Jul 7, 2017

iain t said:
Drennan has just bought out 2 new 13ft Trench rod. One is a distance rod and the other a little softer in action. Meant to be the dog's wobbly bits. You will find the Tench and Specimen Float rod is a bit more beefed up that the Carp Waggler.

I can't see them on the drennan webpage.

The only recent additions are the new generation of 12ft tench and bream rods.

iain t · Jul 7, 2017

Sorry, they are the Specialist Tench and Bream rods MK2. They make a brilliant float and method rods. Have a read here Drennan specialist tench and bream rods Mk2 — Angling Times

tigger · Jul 7, 2017

iain t said:
Sorry, they are the Specialist Tench and Bream rods MK2. They make a brilliant float and method rods. Have a read here Drennan specialist tench and bream rods Mk2 — Angling Times

I had a play with some in a local tackle shop and I wouldn't like to float fish with one.

I'm surprised drennan haven't got a dedicated tench float rod (other than the series 7 rod which i'm not of) like they've had in the past.

103841 · Jul 7, 2017

Wouldn't an Avon rod make a good tench rod?

tigger · Jul 7, 2017

s63 said:
Wouldn't an Avon rod make a good tench rod?

Yeah, but it won't feel as good as a float rod for float fishing. After having tried pretty much all the other drennan tench float rods I kept the super tench which is imo the best one they made. It's a great rod to trott for barbel also.

davebhoy · Jul 8, 2017

Steve

If you're ok with a used rod I have a drennan mark 3 tench float in very good condition and a mark 4 in good condition I am selling

I've also owned the supertench and there isn't much between them but I think the mk 3 is the best of all the tench floats

Richox12 · Jul 8, 2017

steve2 said:
Looking for a new Tench float fishing rod

I looked at the Drennan Series 7 13ft Tench and Specimen Float rod and the 13ft Power Carp Waggler Rod. After reading the write up these appear to be the same rod so may be the name carp as been added to sell more. Is there a difference?

They are different rods

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iain t said:
I have no idea how they beef a rod up. but they seem very clever how they do it. It can't just extra few wraps as i would have thought it would change the action altogether.

If you add/subtract a layer or carbon on the WHOLE rod it doesn't change in action just power.

binka · Jul 10, 2017

Have you made your mind up yet Steve?

Just asking as this will likely go for little more than the current price as so few people seem to know anything about them...

hardy marksman specimen float 13' fishing rod . immaculate condition | eBay

I won't compare it with this, that and the other as I haven't used them but in it's own right it's spot on for tench and handles like a normal match rod at 6.5ozs and a line rating from 2lb to 8lb.

I've used one for the last five years and had it creaking at the corks with all sorts of stuff up to high double carp and low double barbel yet you'd still enjoy using it for silvers, I would say tench are its ideal target and I'd bite his arm off at that price and in that condition.

mikench · Jul 11, 2017

Don't go tempting me Steve! I do not need another rod, i do not need another rod!

iain t · Jul 11, 2017

Always wondered why you need a powerful rod for Tench. I've always just used my 1.25 or 1.0tc Avon with a quiver tip or the 14ft Drennan Acolyte plus. Why does this fish need such specialised rod?. Ok the traditional way to fish for them is a float but there are many other ways of catching this fish. I think it comes down to the old labelling game where because a rod doesn't say Tench, it must be no good for Tench. All you need a is a power float rod or an Avon. For distance a Carp rod will do.

mikench · Jul 11, 2017

Is that where i have been going wrong Iain! I do not have a tench rod

By the same token i do not have a chub, dace, eel, gudgeon and bleak rod ( all the species i have yet to catch)

You are right any rod will catch any fish but some with perhaps more style and panache than others! The manufacturers want to sell more rods. Bearing in mind my fixation with tench (or the lack of them) why have I not rushed out and bought a tench rod. I must be getting more sensible in my old age!

I do like Hardy gear though

binka · Jul 11, 2017

iain t said:
Always wondered why you need a powerful rod for Tench. I've always just used my 1.25 or 1.0tc Avon with a quiver tip or the 14ft Drennan Acolyte plus. Why does this fish need such specialised rod?. Ok the traditional way to fish for them is a float but there are many other ways of catching this fish. I think it comes down to the old labelling game where because a rod doesn't say Tench, it must be no good for Tench. All you need a is a power float rod or an Avon. For distance a Carp rod will do.

Tench are good fighters for sure but nothing that a normal match rod won't handle up to an average size.

However...

My ex-club water where I used to do the vast majority of my tenching was your typical lily pad lined lake and fishing right up to the pads was a necessity during the day which in turn meant giving them some stick to keep them out of the pads.

I also found the heavier rod handy when the almost certain carp came along too

I would have said the rods you already use are more than adequate though, compared with a match type of float rod.

I should add that my 'tench rod' is also my barbel float rod, my float/carp rod, my heavy trotting rod etc. etc.

mikench · Jul 12, 2017

Which Hardy variety is that Steve?

binka · Jul 12, 2017

mikench said:
Which Hardy variety is that Steve?

It's the Specimen Float linked to in the earlier post Mike

I think Ian was implying that you've already got it covered with your 14' Marksman, I've never waggled the 14' but have no reason to doubt it as the line ratings are very similar and I can't see the actions being much different.

It's all a bit horses for courses I reckon, I sometimes think I missed a trick by buying two 13's but on reflection I wanted (and still like having) a dedicated smaller fish rod and the Specialist offered lines down to 12oz where as the 14' Specialist was 2.5lb lower recommended.

Ok I don't go as low as 12oz, the lowest I've used recently was last week with the 1.3 flouro but I'm sure it's all reflected in the action.

If I were choosing just the one though, as a one size fits all, I would have gone for the 14' and just compromised a bit on the sliver fish side of things but I'm happy enough as things stand.

mikench · Jul 12, 2017

My 14' handled the tench and a couple of decent roach with aplomb and I know it will handle bigger specimens of tench, barbel and Chub ! I am very happy with it but will keep an eye on others that come up from time to time.

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