Rods for competition or leisure?


Before buying a fishing rod, you should first consider the direction you want to go. If you like to be free and easy, you should develop in the direction of leisure fishing, if you like the fierce excitement in the field, you should develop in the direction of competitive fishing, because the two different fishing methods need to be configured with different fishing gear.

The equipment used by Chinese competitive anglers are basically medium to high-grade rods, a few hundred dollars is considered cheap, a few thousand dollars a rod in the tournament field is not difficult to see, coupled with the serious climbing phenomenon in the tournament field, so it takes at least a few thousand yuan to equip a competitive angler. If the pursuit of a higher grade, a person to buy tens of thousands of dollars of equipment is not new. Add to that the usual practice rod costs, transportation costs and bait costs, is also a considerable amount of expenditure. So, competitive anglers spend a lot of money every year. Before buying competitive fishing gear, you also have to consider the problem of transportation, if you have your own car, there is no problem, if you do not have your own car, you have to consider the mode of transportation, which is a very serious problem, riding a bicycle, it is difficult to carry a full set of competitive fishing equipment.

The army of recreational fishing, using bamboo fishing rod is also a large number of people. The best way to choose fishing gear is naturally to ask a friend who knows the trade to accompany the purchase, so that you can make full use of his experience to choose a good product at a good price. However, in the process of shopping, you should put forward your own questions, so that he and the salesman to answer, open-minded learning from them can enrich themselves.

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Different hardness of the rod for the scene

Rich flexibility; thin rod body, relatively light weight; good feel after catching fish; especially suitable for fishing small fish; easy to play the elastic tension of the rod to cast fishing groups. When catching fish, pulling fish into the guard slowly. However, when encountering larger fish, it is very disadvantageous, especially for novices, it is difficult to control the fish.


Preservation and care of fishing rods

No more fishing in winter, the rods need to be taken care of carefully to prolong their life. If the carbon fishing rod is not used, then it is best to put it into the original box. After putting it in the original box, do not put it in a normal room, but store it in a dry storage room where the temperature is often kept between 20 and 25C and the humidity is not more than 60. For rods without original box, put them into the cloth rod case first, and then put them into the rod bag.


How to use and maintain the fishing rod?

Fishing rod is the most expensive fishing gear, anglers must protect their rods like warriors love weapons. Most of the accidental damage to the rod is caused by improper use by the angler. Proper operation and standardized fishing methods can extend the life of the rod.


How to perform weight picking test

The last item to check when buying a fishing rod is to challenge the lowest limit of force on the rod, picking up an item with a weight of 500 grams or more. If a fishing rod cannot pick up this weight, it has no value to exist. Some people may ask, where to find the right weight of items?


How to check the quality of fishing rods

When buying a fishing rod, first of all, you should pay attention to its length. Some products are also marked with length, but they are not the actual length used, but the total length including the interface, after removing the interface length, the actual length of the rod will be one or two hundred millimeters shorter.


How to choose the tuning of a fishing rod

About rod tuning tuning refers to the degree of softness and hardness of the rod, inevitably bending when the rod is under weight, hard tuned rods bend less, soft tuned rods bend more. Hard tuned rods are not as flexible as soft tuned rods, the rod body absorbs and consumes less energy, so you need to use relatively thick fishing line, you can slip the fish out of the water in a relatively short period of time, to put it in a rustic way, there is a certain degree of raw pull factor.