Thanks for the share... my search started after watching an old mitchell 300 spinning film and it was a glass rod. Been searching for other videos and luckyto find yours.
I mostly use fiberglass myself for a lot of the reasons you bring up here. You can really launch light weight lures/bait easily. I use a Bass Pro 7.5' micro glass rod most of the time. Fiberglass is also more durable than graphite. The trade off is decreased sensitivity of course. I do some weightless fishing with live crickets using a Tenkara rod...good times right there! A Largemouth usually won't bother with a weighted live cricket setup, but they take them with no weight added regularly. Nearly impossible to cast a weightless live cricket with a spinning reel, but a Tenkara rod will allow me to get a cast out about 30' away from my body. A fly rod/reel setup would work but those Tenkara rods are a blast.
I'm predicting a comeback for fiberglass w/ the stitching technique where you feel everything. I ask folks this: Why flip or punch that heavy lure/rod/line when you can finesse a worm in there and use a fiberglass spinning rod to get them away from cover? I need to give Tenkara a try. Do the inexpensive ones work okay to start? Thanks again.
Yeah, I don't use an expensive one myself and I actually made some for my wife and kids out of very inexpensive fiberglass rods you can find on eBay or Amazon. Here is a link to the ones I built: czcams.com/video/8aMIljmEx0w/video.html And here is a link where you can see my son catching a decent little Bass on the one I made for him at the 5minute mark of the video: czcams.com/video/YWMlJJh04_A/video.html My Tenkara rod is a 12' one from Willow and Cane. I think they were clearing them out on eBay a while back and you could get them for less than $30. I saw one on eBay today for $75 and on their site the same rod is $130. This one look very similar to mine for a great price: a.co/3xSMPA7 The one in the Amazon link looks like mine except it should be a little more flexible at the tip because it is a 6:4 and mine is a 7:3 In Tenkara rods, the ratio numbers tell you how close to the tip a rod flexes when loading breaking the rod down into 10 equal lengths. The order from stiffest to most flexible is 8:2, 7:3, 6:4, 5:5 That may be a little confusing but that is how it works and once you understand how that works it actually gives you a better idea of the bend of a rod than action descriptors like light, medium, medium-heavy, heavy that we use in the USA.
Thanks for the share... my search started after watching an old mitchell 300 spinning film and it was a glass rod. Been searching for other videos and luckyto find yours.
I mostly use fiberglass myself for a lot of the reasons you bring up here. You can really launch light weight lures/bait easily. I use a Bass Pro 7.5' micro glass rod most of the time. Fiberglass is also more durable than graphite. The trade off is decreased sensitivity of course. I do some weightless fishing with live crickets using a Tenkara rod...good times right there! A Largemouth usually won't bother with a weighted live cricket setup, but they take them with no weight added regularly. Nearly impossible to cast a weightless live cricket with a spinning reel, but a Tenkara rod will allow me to get a cast out about 30' away from my body. A fly rod/reel setup would work but those Tenkara rods are a blast.
I'm predicting a comeback for fiberglass w/ the stitching technique where you feel everything. I ask folks this: Why flip or punch that heavy lure/rod/line when you can finesse a worm in there and use a fiberglass spinning rod to get them away from cover? I need to give Tenkara a try. Do the inexpensive ones work okay to start? Thanks again.
Yeah, I don't use an expensive one myself and I actually made some for my wife and kids out of very inexpensive fiberglass rods you can find on eBay or Amazon. Here is a link to the ones I built: czcams.com/video/8aMIljmEx0w/video.html
And here is a link where you can see my son catching a decent little Bass on the one I made for him at the 5minute mark of the video: czcams.com/video/YWMlJJh04_A/video.html
My Tenkara rod is a 12' one from Willow and Cane. I think they were clearing them out on eBay a while back and you could get them for less than $30. I saw one on eBay today for $75 and on their site the same rod is $130. This one look very similar to mine for a great price: a.co/3xSMPA7
The one in the Amazon link looks like mine except it should be a little more flexible at the tip because it is a 6:4 and mine is a 7:3
In Tenkara rods, the ratio numbers tell you how close to the tip a rod flexes when loading breaking the rod down into 10 equal lengths. The order from stiffest to most flexible is 8:2, 7:3, 6:4, 5:5
That may be a little confusing but that is how it works and once you understand how that works it actually gives you a better idea of the bend of a rod than action descriptors like light, medium, medium-heavy, heavy that we use in the USA.
I'll be sure to check these out.