Jon Conner
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Insider information is not exactly vetted reliable info, and could be just a rumor started by a disgruntled loser. In the early tests they did flex profiles of all rods, tracing the arcs on the wall, if there were a bunch of identical blanks, it would have showed up.
JCZach,
You’re not being fair here, I don’t think there was any pretense of science in the shootout, it’s a review carried out by four experienced fishermen who express their opinions and score the rods accordingly then add them up and declare a hierarchy. It’s no different than a comparison of cars or any other consumer item where there are a lot subjective issues to deal with. All in all I think they do a pretty good job, they certainly identify some dogs, and when four people unamimously score the top contenders so closely, there has to be some legitimacy in the results. And, for what it’s worth, I don’t think there is any way that fly rods could be scientifically evaluated in a way that would help someone figure out if they were better or worse casting or fishing rods.
JCI havent used one but it was designed for single handed Spey techniques and has a very short heavy head that would not be at all friendly for overhead casting, both from the short head, but also because of the weight, which is two or three lines sizes over the labeled weight.
JCI also got their catalog and quickly decided they’d gone insane, their prices are double to triple what they were maybe ten years ago.
JCBuy a cheap double paddle and chop one end off, cobble up a handle on the end and Bob’s yer uncle.
JCSo Zach, do you think that companies like Orvis and Hardy contract JS without assurances that they’re not going to clone the designs and sell the blanks under someone else’s name, seems like JS would be
Zach,
Don’t you think it’s the brand’s design, rather than who made the blank, be it in their own shop or Korea?
JCZach,
If you are just moving your hand back and forth a few inches and rotating the rod, then, with all due respect, youre not doing it right, your rod hand should follow a level path of a minimum of eighteen inches or so, even with a light trout rod, and that involves accelerating the weight of the reel.
I believe that there is a consensus among the cognoscenti that the whole notion of balance is flawed and outdated, and, in addition, I believe that we’re used to the weight of a reel on the bottom of a rod, so, therefore that’s what feels good and natural.
JC
I’d give the test a pretty good rating simply because it’s strictly objective, they don’t even get into fit and finish. I think showing preference for light weight is perfectly acceptable, too light has to be better than too heavy, that said, if one messes about with different weight reels on the same rod, I would challenge them to feel a difference while staying in reasonable limits. One thing I’d like to see though would be start up inertia with the spool at different levels of fullness, things get a lot more sensitive when there’s a bunch of line out between the drag of the line and the decreased diameter of the spool. The amount of drag pressure available by itself is pretty dubious, how well you can adjust the amount of drag would be more useful info. But, like rods, you can hardly make a bad choice, it’s mostly how much money you want to spend and which features are important to
you.
JCRegardless, you should use a support on the lower unit to keep the motor from bouncing, especially since you just increased the leverage against the transom with the jack plate and the setback.
Good to hear the boat is leveled out now.
JCAnother idea is a hydrofoil that fits to the cavitation plate, they apparently provide quite a bit of lift, are cheap, are out of the water when poling, and require no holes in your boat.
http://www.westmarine.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/SiteSearchView?PopularCat=No&langId=-1&Nao=0&catalogId=10001&viewTaskName=SiteSearchView&beginIndex=0&Ne=2000000&storeId=11151&page=CategoryDisplayLevel1&N=377+710+2050417&icid=HD_BKM_Hydrofoils
JC
