Fishing Q&A
whats the difference between fishing rods?
please include carp fly and sea fishing rods in the difference in detail please
Public Comments
- Bro, there are literally hundreds of thousands of different types of fishing rods. There are probably several hundred different types just in the categories you asked about. You REALLY need to be more specific about what you're looking for and what you want to use them for?
- just like themoe said, there are hundreds of different types of rods, each type will be "tweaked" especially for that type of fishing. by changing how the rod curves to play different fish even how the rod handles different types of line, for example a light waggler rod for fishing on the canal, should preferably lots of small eyes for handling light line, feeder rods will have very sensitive tips which pick up bites when swim feeding or legering, some sea rods will generaly have a massive weight handling capacity to haul in huge fish, usually with massive eyelets on to take mainline in excess of 30lb breaking strain, same as asking what is the difference between knifes forks spoons? answer being they all have certain jobs, sum ppl might use a fork to cut through sumthing soft, but the tool you should really use is a knife as it does it so much better..................... is that example any gud??
- Carp-light in weight, usually intended for a spinning reel, they can vary from 6ft to 13ft depending on your country. Saltwater-there are shore rods and boat rods, the shore rods are available in a variety of sizes up to about 13ft, some bigger, they have an up-locking reel seat intended mainly for bait cast reels(multipliers)-there are also boat rods, small at about 6ft but very heavy duty, are rated in strength by pounds eg 30lb class. Fly rods- my main area of the sport, there are a huge variety, like most other fresh water rods they have different actions these are, tip action, middle to tip(medium to fast) and full action, in which the whole rod will flex, not very often used, fly rods are light weight and come in a range of rods from about 6ft to 12 ft, there are also double handed rods for spey casting for salmon. They are rated between fly line weight, the most common is a 6/7 weight. For smaller creeks a 1-2wt and so on.
- It's the blank inside the rod that makes a world of difference. A graphite blank is hyper sensitive and one could feel the slightest tap to set the hook. Also graphie is super strong and could withstand tremendous amount of bending pressure. The best graphite rod on the market, I believe, is St. Croix's.
