Drennan super specialist avon rod

Advantages: Good balance, light and fast.
Disadvantages: None that I can see.

...I have been a very keen angler for the past 25 years, and I now run a local Fishing Club. The club water is only a few hundred yards from where I live, so this allows me plenty of time to try out my tackle and test it to the limits. So here I go with my opinion on the Shakespeare Gold Odessa Match Rod. I purchased this rod for around £50 from my local tackle shop, in June 2000 as a gift for my wife's Birthday, but I found it to be so good that it found it's way into my rod bag and not hers. If and when she reads this I will probably be in deep trouble yet again. Well the rod is 13 foot long with 15 single leg lined rings and screw reel fittings, with a half cork and hyperlon handle. Balance has to be felt to be believed, its has a very fast action with a soft tip that picks up line like a dream, yet is soft enough to stop you... Read review

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Advantages: Easy casting, excellent bite detection, robust,
Disadvantages: Difficult to load the power version during cast for massive casts

...you are playing smaller fish it can be difficult to have a true feeling of the fight. This is only a small quible. I have teamed this rod up with a PENN 525 super mag and these make an excellent combination. The rod really does deserve to get an excellent review and for the price matchs rods that are being sold for twice the price. A great buy for both the beginnner and advanced angler... Read review

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Advantages: Mail Order, Good prices, also deal in second hand goods
Disadvantages: None

...Sussex Tackle is situated at Wintons Farm, Folders Lane at Burgess Hill West Sussex and is a specialist Carp Dealer. Here you can buy from a huge range of products for the carp angler. All the top names are stocked. They have a great range of bed chairs, rods, bite alarms, rodpods, holdalls rodbags etc and all at reasonable prices. Perhaps what sets this shop out from the others is that they also deal in secondhand carp equipment. They have quite a vast range of pre-owned gear and all in great condition. They will also happily buy or exchange your unwanted tackle. Their mail order service promises that 96% of orders are sent out within 24 hours and my experience is that it is the case. You can email them at sales@wintonsfishery.demon.co.uk... Read review

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