Rod Advice

[Paul Bishop]

I've only been fishing a couple of months and up intil now have used an old match rod given to me by a friend. At the moment I'm float fishing at a few local "free" ponds to get going but soon hope to look into getting a permit for river/canal fishing and trying out a one or two commercial fisheries.

A friend was visiting a Angling centre and I asked them to pick me up a new rod,I gave them the model number but they returned with a Daiwa Sensor Z 12" carp rod with a 2.75 TC instead of the Sensor Z match rod I asked for.

It's a nice rod and I'm very tempted to keep it as it means a 60 mile round trip to exchange it but would it be any good for simple float fishing on still waters?

 

[Dave Rothery]

in a word.......no!

 

[Paul Bishop]

Oops that's torn t . Thinking I wouldn't get a reply for a while I couldn't resist trying it out and headed off to my local free water pond (bagged 2 small roach and a nice Tench). Compared to the light match rod I've been using it was a bit on the heavy side but other than it was ok.

As I said I'm going to start visiting a few local fisheries/gravel pits where Carp are present so I'll do some reading up on Carp and give it a go.

Thanks for the response.

 

[Dave Rothery]

you'll probably ignore this, but its too easy to get into carp fishing these days. what i mean is that it used to be that you worked your way thru the species, and ended up carp fishing, learning watercraft, tactics etc along the way. these days, well you can read a book, but it doesn't give you the experience. what then follows is a series of blanks (if your not fishing the overstocked ponds) and you give up. i'd give it a couple of years after bream, tench etc before trying for carp, it'll make you a better angler.

 

[Dave Slater]

Paul,
I think Dave R is giving you some pretty sound advice. Try something like the John Wilson Avon Quiver rod. You can use it at 11ft for ledgering and 13ft for float fishing. It should cope with anything in commercial fisheries. It has another top with three interchangeable quiver tips which would be ideal for river fishing. I would do as Dave R suggests and fish for as many different species as possible. You may find that you like to fish for a variety of species or you may, eventually, find a species you like to specialise in. Fishing is about enjoyment and you should do what you find you enjoy most, not what the latest in thing is.

 

[Ron Clay]

I could't agree more with Dave than to get yourself the Wilson Avon.

A friend of mine has just bought one and quite honestly, they are about the best all round rod you could buy for the money.

 

[Paul Bishop]

Thanks for the advice guys, I have decided to take it back and get something more suitable. I?ve had a look round and the John Wilson rod looks very good however it?s a bit out of my price range at the moment. The cheapest I?ve seen it is around ?70 and my current budget is no more than about ?40.

The ones I've looked at are the Shimano Hyperloop 13" (290FA) & the 13" Daiwa Sensor Z.

 

[Birds Nest]

cant go too far wron with the Hyperloop for a bit of general float fishing..

 

[Paul Bishop]

I did swap it and paid ?44.99 for the 13" Daiwa Vulcan X power match rod (VLXM130WA)

Thanks to everyone for the advice.