Do you have a go to rod

[Keith M]

I don't really have a 'go to' rod, as like some of others on here it entirely depends on the water I'm fishing, the species I am aiming to target and the method I am going to be using..

However if I had to choose just one rod that gets a lot of use compared to my other rods it would probably be my 12ft Greys 1.5lb/2lb tc Multi-tip Specialist rod, which has a lovely forgiving and slightly less powerful 1.5lb tc tip which I often use for Crucians and Tench at mid to long range or for touch ledgering for low water Barbel, plus a second 2lb tc tip which is slightly more powerful but is still forgiving which has caught me several Carp over 20lb off the top and bottom plus a few Barbel in floodwaters. Both tip sections feel fine with the bottom section too unlike some other twin-tips that I've used.

If I ever fish a water that is new to me then this rod is often the first rod that I will reach for if I am not going to be using a float; or my 15ft Hardy Marksman Specimen float rod if I am.

Keith

 

[Jim Crosskey 2]

I have a pair of Daiwa Vertice Ledger rods (actually they're avons really)... they were supplied with a quiver tip and an avon tip and the blank configuration is a 2 foot handle section plus 2 equal sections of approx. 5 foot (so 12 foot, like the much more expensive Powermesh avons).

The quiver tops were rubbish, barely good enough for holding up tomatoes.

But the avon tops... I've used them for carp fishing/ method fishing/ lure fishing/ float fishing/ surface fishing/ barbel/ feeder fishing.... They cope with it all. Apparently they have a 1.25lb test curve. They really do bend, but I really like that and it makes me more confident, especially when a decent fish is just a few yards away from the net.

First in the bag every time. Usually first out too.

 

[macko]

My go to rod is my Hardy marksman specimen Avon smuggler, if I could only have one rod, this would be it. At 11'6" it's a great all rounder

ATB Macko