Bob Riggins
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Nothing wrong with ladyfish (aka: poor man’s tarpon; snot rocket). They fight like hell, jump and will eat anything.
Sign is in England and, judging from some comments about it, relates to the propensity of Polish and eastern Europeans to overfish an area and take fish over the established limits and in violation of catch and release regulations. I’ve seen a similar thing happen around here with certain immigrant groups. Certainly not politically correct, but probably a valid concern.
Plus, the company is located on mainland China. This guys can hack into and steal our security secrets with no repercussions, so why shouldn’t they steal the Sage name.
I assume you are talking saltwater beaches. If so, how does that pontoon work out. I have never seen anyone using one off the beaches around here. Seems like wind and waves would be an issue.
I think part of my response got lost in the conversion. I had stated that conventional fishermen have an aversion to multi piece rods. I build a number of inshore flats spinning rods and almost always use 2 or 3 piece blanks. It is hard to convince some conventional guys that ferrules are not an issue. Usually I have to get them to cast one before they believe me.
So, to answer your question, that may be true for some of the heavier offshore or boat rods, but most spinning rods for inshore and freshwater are only slightly stouter than a comparable fly rod and the ferrules make no difference in the strength of the rod or the action. The best spinning rods I have built are on 3 piece GLoomis GL3 popping rod blanks, which have a stiffer butt than a fly rod, but about the same tip action. Everyone that has cast one loves it, but, unfortunately Gloomis quit selling blanks.
Amazon.com has a Carlile convertable for about $75 that you can convert from a SUP to a kayak paddle.
I fish mostly salt and one thing I have found is that saltwater fish aren’t really that particular. Get the size and color right and they will hit about anything. I really have only 3 go to flies that work for about any occasion, a kwan, a schminnow and a gurgler.
Is Enrico’s web site worth it.
When a rod starts to recover from the load it springs back to its natural position (straight), but it doesn’t just stop there, it actually goes past straight and then again springs back slightly beyond straight, so it actually oscillates back and forth until it comes to a complete stop. This is often called the damping cycle.
Since I started building rods, this is a subject I have become very interested in. Dr. William Hanneman wrote a lot about this in his Common Cents System for evaluating rod blanks.
There are actually three important measures: Power (basically line rating, 5wt, 6wt, etc), Action (where the rod bends relative to load. I think this is what you mean by stiffness) and recovery rate (how fast the material in the rod returns to its natural state, i.e. straight. This is usually measured by resonant frequency). Resonant frequency is to a large extent determined by the materials used, ie, bamboo (lowest), fiberglass, graphite, boron (highest), but it can be influenced by design.
One thing I noticed in your poll, is your used of fast, medium and slow to describe recovery rate, when these terms are typically used to describe action (stiffness).
