Identify a fishing rod in just a few minutes! Keep These 4 Tips in Mind When Buying a Fishing Rod for Newbies

To be able to buy a competent fishing rod, is a wish of most anglers, after all, the rod is a “big thing” price is relatively high, and it is a very important tool itself.

Tuhao buy fishing rod no trouble, pick expensive buy on the line, even if the pit big deal to buy another one, but we can not ordinary people, for us the cost is very important, if “spend a lot of money” to buy a garbage rod back, I'm afraid that a few days can not sleep.

This article is my experience after buying dozens of rods, maybe the identification method is not completely correct, but according to this method of buying rods can still avoid a lot of pitfalls. Especially if you are a newbie and don't have much idea about the brand and price of fishing rods, I think this article can give you some reference.

“Quickly identify the good and bad fishing rods, the first look: look at the appearance of the first information we get a fishing rod is its appearance, and the appearance of the first impression of a large extent determines us on it. To cite an example that may not be appropriate, for example, you go on a blind date, see each other's first look at the heart basically already have the answer, good-looking, eye to have the desire to continue to understand, if the first look at the feeling is not good, not all the way people, I'm afraid that you do not want to continue to develop.

Anglers may feel that the appearance of the rod is not important, because the fishing really does not help, but the business should feel that it is important, after all, the first impression is very important. So a good fishing rod, the appearance is certainly not too bad, especially some of the lesser-known brands, but also through the appearance of the first to attract some people, so that consumers can continue to understand the desire.

Good fishing rod paint is very bright, looks will be very texture, and poor fishing rod dull color, rough workmanship, look closely at the details of two eyes a whole lot of problems. Poor fishing rod will only take a very awesome name, and then large section printed on some fancy patterns, some also the whole a few English words pretending to be imported high-grade goods.

If you don't believe me, just go to a certain treasure to search and look around, more comparison will be able to know what is the difference between one hundred dollars and one thousand dollars in the appearance of the fishing rod.

The second look: look at the thickness of the rod, the overall taper of this is also more intuitive, basically you accept the appearance of the information will be noticed after the thickness of the rod, taper, some a little more sensitive anglers will even be the first to notice these two points.

But the rod thickness, taper can not be taken out alone, can not say that the finer the rod is the better, thicker will not work, and then good carp rods, giant rods must be thicker than the carp rod, even if the carp rod only a few tens of dollars, the taper is also the same reason.

There are only two ways to know the exact relationship between thickness and taper and a fishing rod, either you have used enough rods to have some idea in mind, or if you have not used many rods, then the easiest thing to do is to take two rods and compare them.

The same size, the same type of rod (for example, both are synthesized rods), in the case of about the same hardness, generally is the thinner, lighter, less taper the rod is better. As you may have heard, high carbon rods are characterized by lightness and stiffness, and it is not impossible for cheap low carbon rods to make a very stiff look, as long as the rod is made thicker and the taper is made larger to mimic it.

But this is actually “fake hard”, encountered a larger fish will certainly show the prototype, but if you are a novice, with less rod or no comparison, then from the appearance and feel is not so easy to recognize.

Third look: look at the rod wall thickness, look at the back plug, look at the details of the workmanship look at the appearance, look at the thickness and taper, then we have to open the back plug, remove the back plug you first want to pay attention to the back of the plug is not big, heavy or not, if it is big and heavy, then we should suspect that the business with a super-heavy back plug to adjust the center of gravity of the fishing rod!

I have two rods in my hand, one more than 800, a thousand or so, both rods look good, thickness and hardness did not find much difference, that is, a left and a right in the hand I just found more than a thousand slightly lighter only.

However, when I removed the back plug of the two rods, the gap immediately came out, the weight of the back plug of the cheaper rods is almost three times the weight of the expensive rod, remove the back plug and then put the two rods on the hand, more than 800 that feel immediately worse.

The thickness of the rod wall is also very important, let me put it this way: the rod is thin, small taper, thin rod wall will generally be lighter, but basically softer, who's hardness is high I think it's a little better. Thick rods, large taper, thin rod wall, at first glance seems very light and hard, but when encountered with big fish is probably soft, and the strength will not be high. If the rod is thick, large taper, but the rod wall is very thick, it will certainly be heavy, if you find that it is not too heavy you can see if it is with the rear plug to adjust the center of gravity.

Good rods should be overall thin, small taper, rod wall is thin but hard; or rod wall is very thick, the weight is also very large, but in the hand is not as heavy as expected, and did not use super-heavy rear plug. (You can't use the thickness of the wall to judge how good or bad it is; rods for big fish will have thicker walls.)

The details of the internal workmanship of the rod are also very important, such as whether the thickness of the rod wall is uniform, whether the surface is smooth and flat, some rods you touch with your hand, it is stained black, that is certainly not good.

Shake a shake is very important to shake out the softness, hardness, waist strength old anglers may not spend too much effort in the coating, workmanship, because they read countless rods, basically look at a glance to know a roughly, some may be unscrewed after plugging to see a little bit, some of them are directly on the rod to unfold the hand on the hand to shake.

What can you shake? First of all, you can shake it a few times to see how much the front end of the rod swings up and down and where it bends, but of course this has to be combined with how hard you shake it, so it's best to have a comparison as well.

The more the rod sways and bends against the handle, the softer the rod is. On the other hand, if you shake it twice and find that it doesn't wobble much or only bends a little at the tip, then it is a stiffer rod with a more advanced tuning.

After understanding the approximate hardness, temperament, we can continuously shake in small increments, this is to see the rod's waist strength, when you quickly and continuously small shake, found that the rod shaking more powerful, but obviously can not keep up with your rhythm, especially found in the middle and back section of the case is not too stable, then the rod is not only soft, and not much waist strength.

A good fishing rod is more resilient, you are in the continuous shaking of the front end of the responsive more on the rhythm, the middle and back section should be more stable, more quite, there is a certain degree of hardness support.

But there are exceptions to this, for example, there are some super hard fighting rods on the market, 8H, 10H black pit special rods, the price is very cheap, the carbon cloth is also very poor, but because of the hard, you find that the rod is not shaking at all when you jiggle, but also very stable look. This kind of rod can only be judged as good or bad by combining the points mentioned earlier, or you can only actually catch a few fish by hand to see how it performs.

Conclusion: Most of the time I still believe that you get what you pay for. Expensive things are not necessarily better or more cost-effective, but cheap things are certainly no better. To put it less pleasantly, many people feel that a couple hundred rods feel very good and can catch big fish, that's because they haven't used a better one, if you've used it a few times, you'll be able to tell the difference.

For the identification of good and bad rods, the most critical is to see more, more use, more comparisons, the old anglers do not need to look at the brand and price, take a few shakes in the hand immediately know the good and bad, but the novice less experienced, on the good rod is not much concept, want to quickly identify in addition to reference prices and brands, can only be in accordance with the above method.