I used to try to take one spinning rod with me in the boat and try to catch a certain fish until the victorious, or not so victorious, end. But more and more often I started to get distracted and realized that catching only one fish bored me. And I began to alternate: then catching golavl by rafting, then jig zander, then catching pike by twitching. But recently I came to the fact that right on the fishing switch from catching one fish to another. For example, if a chub does not bite on my known points, then I have time to bounce to catch other fish, and then return to these places in the evening and check, maybe he began to catch again. And this kind of fishing requires several tackles in the boat. Actually, that’s how I came up with the idea of writing this article – what rods I always have in the boat.
Class of rod
So, in my conditions of three large and two medium rivers, located a short distance from each other, three spinning rods of the following classes are quite enough: ultralight, light and medium. Ultralight – it is exclusively catching chub on small crankbaits and micro kolebaki or catching perch, light – it is already an opportunity to catch gerich, because often there are places where you need a large enough deterrent resource, but at the same time, that it was possible to throw small crankbaits and minnow wobblers. Well, the medium allows you to catch pike tweeching or pikeperch jig, when white predators refuse to peck, because most of the time I give them. And now more in detail about the rods themselves.
SLrods Atria Trout 662UL
With this ultralight I fish exclusively for chub and perch. In periods when chub prefer to eat the smallest wobblers or small microcolebals, I have to take in my hands spinning rods of the lightest class (not counting mormyshka, of course). And in principle, such fishing brings much more emotions from catching even not large fish. 662UL atria trout has a length of 199 centimeters and test 1-7 grams. Such a height is enough not only for raft hunting for chub, but also for shore fishing on small rivers, especially overgrown shrubbery. The spinning line is medium-fast, which is necessary when catching white predators that like to peck in the style of “give the spinning”, and this line allows you to extinguish these jerks and do not tear the delicate lips of the fish. At its rather low cost rod is assembled neatly and perfectly copes with the task. Even though I haven’t caught any big fish on it yet, but a 600 grams of redfish is taken out of the water very cheerfully and it feels that there is still plenty of reserve in the butt.
Norstream Avatar 732L
This light is a real all-rounder. Spinning is made neatly and well-made. Rings, by the way, made with a thin insert, glued neatly and evenly, I did not find any lacquer leaks. Length 221 centimeters, test 3-12 grams. Blank rod is very sensitive, which allows you to control the wobblers and feel the lightest touches of fish. The spinning rod has a medium slenderness, while maintaining sufficient rigidity. Thanks to this combination, we can put the lures as accurately and far as possible. But at the same time, the relatively soft tip allows you to calmly swallow the lures. I use the Avatar at times when I need to catch crankbaits of 36 millimeters and more, as well as minnow wobblers starting from 50 millimeters. In addition to the even wiring due to the rigid middle part, you can pull through classic minnow wobblers of 70 size. I even had a chance to catch 90 mm wobblers, but here you can already hear that the spinning fails, and for such conditions you need to use a more powerful rod. Avatar perfectly knits the fish, so even when catching perch the number of failures is minimal, well, and when catching a large stud, the spinning shows itself with the best side. Of course, there have been no big trophies yet, but two-kilogram fish can be safely pulled out of difficult conditions.
Graphiteleader Rivolta GRIS-772M
This spinning has long proven itself to anglers from the best side. It has passed and heavy conditions PAL, and at a medium price segment has few competitors in terms of versatility of use. The rod has a length of 231 centimeters and a test of 7-28 grams. Such a height is enough to comfortably fish jigs even in a small boat, and at the same time the spinning rod is not too long for twitching wobblers. The Rivolta can easily handle 110 wobblers and the not-so-stubborn 130s. In jig fishing, it didn’t bounce back either. Good enough sensitivity allows you to work with weights from 8-10 grams. I have not tried to go lower, but I think it will be uncomfortable to catch, especially on the current. Above the specified test, too, I do not recommend working, because the manufacturer does not simply indicate the values. The rod works well with pike jerks, the number of failures I can count on my fingers.
Kesimpulan
In this article I tried to describe my “gentleman’s” set of spinning rods, which allow you to cover almost all fishing conditions encountered when rafting on the river, not counting some too specific: as a strong spring stream, where you need a spinning at least up to 45 grams or catching on many favorite “bigbaits”. Otherwise with this set I always manage to catch some fish, be it perch, chub, jherech, pike or zander. All rods are relatively inexpensive and available to most fishermen, except, perhaps, Rivolta, which simply stopped producing, but it can be found on the secondary market.
Penulis: Bob Nudd adalah seorang nelayan ahli dengan pengalaman lebih dari 20 tahun dan pemenang berbagai kompetisi.