How to choose a fishing rod

Fishing rods with rings

The first family, fishing rods with rings, is also the largest and includes a huge variety of fishing rods:

• Bolognese fishing rods
• teleadjustable fishing rods
• telematch fishing rods
• English fishing rods
• surfcasting fishing rods
• feeder fishing rods
• trolling fishing rods
• bottom fishing rods

Before choosing a fishing rod with guides, we must also consider combining it with a fishing reel, given that this entire family requires a reel to be used correctly. To make a correct purchase you will need to understand the place where you are going to fish, whether in the sea, rivers or lakes.

Surfcasting fishing rod

For sea fishing from the beach the ideal rod is a surfcasting rod with a casting action that can vary from 100 to 250 grams based on the distance we want to reach, the higher the weight of the rod the longer the distance we will reach with the launch.

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Bolognese fishing rod

The fishing rod with guides for fishing in inland waters, rivers and lakes, the best known is the Bolognese rod , can have a variable length from 3 to 8 meters and more, the materials with which these rods are built are three, glass fiber , fiberglass and carbon, carbon.

The best performing material in this type of fishing rods is carbon which allows for semi-rigid rigid actions and a great variety of actions, tip, parabolic, semi parabolic, etc.

The choice of a length of around 6 meters in carbon allows you to have a rod that can be managed in any situation both for fishing in commercial and natural waters. With this type of fishing rods, the fixed or sliding float is mainly used to cast the line.

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Bottom fishing rod

In bottom fishing, the most used rods with rings are from 1.80 m to 4 m long, the most used lengths are 2.40 - 2.70 m with actions that vary based on the depth and sea currents. We can say that a bottom rod with a 70/200 gram action allows you to fish in various conditions. The choice of materials on this rod is not fundamental, there are excellent mixed carbon products on the market that do their job very well.

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Trolling fishing rod

If, however, we want to fish in the sea in Traina, the suitable fishing rods are sturdy rods with variable lengths from 1.60 m to 1.80 m, in a single section or at most in two sections, the rings can be either normal double bridge or rings equipped with a pulley. To get started, a trolling rod with 20/30 lb action with a length of 1.65 m single section allows you to tackle both live fishing and surface fishing with rapalas.

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English fishing rod

The English rod is used when the wind disturbs our day of fishing, its peculiarity consists in the fact that it has a float fixed only at one end and a sinking line so that the wind on the surface does not cause our line to be dredged excessively. The rods can vary from a length of 3.30 to 4.80 m, the length of the most used English rod is 4.20 m in carbon or mixed carbon with 5-25 gram action. On the market you can find both three-piece rods and more manageable telescopic telematch rods to start this fishing technique.

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Fixed fishing rods without guides

Fixed fishing rods are the easiest rods to manage initially because they do not require a reel and it will be enough to attach the line to start fishing, the length varies from 3 meters to 10 metres, the construction materials are fiberglass and carbon strictly used in rods measuring over 7 metres. A rod of around 7/8 meters allows you to fish easily both in the lake and in the river.