The Advantages and Disadvantages of Longer Fishing Rods

It is better to stay with what you know that trying something new when you are not adept at new things. When you think to use a fishing rod that is taller than you more than one foot though knowing that you are not much taller one, thinking something like this is always daunting. You need to borrow a rod but there is no option left for you – how discouraging it is!

Set your hook and take a few casts, and your confidence level will gradually build in you in a firm way that you will not leave it any of your future trips. The length will be beneficial in the longer casts and if you take time to think it through, you will find the result while you will set the hook since this will support you when you hold it. As a result, plenty of fish in your boat.

Using bait casting rigs under the lights to catch redfish in the night is troubling because fishing in Louisiana’s Chandeleur Islands is something like that you can feel every fish are like when pulling a bucket full of cement from the bottom of the sea.

People who would like to catch a redfish using fly rod did not battle much in fishing them and getting them on the boat. And, they got the upper hand by means of the leverage of the longer in size of the fishing rod.

You may have joined so late to the community of seven feet fishing rods when some fishing tournament committees already have banned 7-6s or 7-11s and more so an 8-foot huge rod that a 7-footer usually gave way. Most of the anglers who are engaged into bass fishing have learned how to handle a longer fishing rod and especially a 7 feet long rod has become a standard for them since they use it for every like worm fishing or typical fishing lures, for example, deep diving crankbaits.

While considering a rod to buy, you will get more options that go into rod along with its length. Two materials are available on the market - the fiberglass rods which are heavier and slower in action and, the other is the graphite rod which is lighter than fiberglass rods with rigidity and faster in action. Carbon being the element of the graphite rods are also cheaper and with a lighter rod, it is normally easy to cast the longer distances without fatigue but they are sensitive.

Most of the anglers usually go with graphite rods nowadays when they have to pick one between the two- fiberglass and graphite rods. Now comes the difference between typical graphite rods graded IM6, IM7 and IM8 graphite which are the terms used by the industry to signify graphite weave. The action will be quicker and the weave will be finer which depends upon the higher number. An IM8 is much durable, sturdier and stiffer than IM6. As a result, an angler can lure farther and it will not bend or break down under normal pressure while on fishing. But, it does not go with all the IM6 and IM8 fishing rods. Though this IM signifier is not an industry standard rather than an identifier for a graphite provider this signifier is placed on most rods.

Again, there are guides – single foot, double foot and micro; of which the micro guides did not get the positive response from most of the fishermen although it guaranteed with line control for casting distance, better sensitivity along with lightweight.

The manufacturers are now yielding double foot guides those are heavier considering the strength nearer the reel which is a blend of single-foot and double-foot guides with standard size guide. It is entirely buyer’s choice on selecting the fishing rod and length for using them based on their suitability. The right approach is to try the desired rods on the water to know more about the benefits and the drawbacks.

It is difficult to decide if 7-foot fishing rods will stay or go away. In fact, the same thing happens with the majority of fishing equipment. Some accessories get popular because they come with real conveniences. Sometimes, anglers jump to buy something because others are doing the same and they do not want to be among the exceptional people.

If fishing equipment gets in demand that induces people to do something by means of a trick. The fishermen and hunters spring in by seeing others buy since they do not love to be left out.

It has been a long time even more than a decade and now the choices for the long rods are increasing day by day with length and, people must not lag behind to try for something new and different.

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