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Absolutely fine, I have hemp over 3years old, and they works fine for roach.

By light I mean no more than 1.5oz, but did do 2oz with underarm cast.

It’s actually a nice long rang light feeder rod.

A lot things can cause noise heavy, especially the handle material and fitting. But those won’t affect the performance of the rod, what matters is the action, I have seen some very balanced float rods, but they achieved this by having a thin soft top 1/3 section, but aggressively increased the...

Some float rods feel a bit noise heavy but when you put the reel on, they feel great.

I can’t really comment on the rods since I never saw one, but I fish chub with Avon top a lot so here’s few things. I have seen vicious bites, but that normally happened when chub is already hooked, more common is very shy bites, the tip is hardy moving, I even had very tiny bites on 0.5oz...

Yes, drennan nailed it and completely dominated the 200 rod market. The better options I have played with cost a lot more and hard to get in UK

That makes a lot sense

At its price range and rod available in UK, the acolyte is the best option.

I remember the browsing suggested the line rating of sphere is 1-4lb, shocking, I have no doubt it can handle 6lb+ line.

https://www.marktunley.com/dark-carbon-specialist-float-12-175--order-only--1318-p.asp Sounds like you guys may need this.

what about the rods for other species?

Yes, the 14 and 15 are specialist only. But 14 has line rating to 8lb, which is the same as 13ft specimen. 15 has the same line rating as 13ft specialist. (Btw, in hardy catalog, when they describe the spec of 14 specialist rod, they wrote specimen 14ft, a mistake maybe) I am sure 15 will be a...

I found the opinion about Hardy Marksmen rods largely divided. People either love them or hate them. Some love them because of their action, and some hate them because they think they are overpriced average rods. So, for that sort of money, you should try it before you buy it. On the other hand...

Yeah, I do that as well sometimes, easier and quicker to get the float out. For swing cast, how big is your float? I don’t feel it works well with light (<20g) lead.

Only thing matters in Wallis cast is when you pull the line. Holding the weight or not is optional. Also, putting the tension on the rod? Optional as well. Turning your body? Casting from side? Doesn’t matter at all. As long as you can swing the float out, and pull the line at right time, job...

But isn’t 14ft specialist is equivalent to a specimen float? I remember its line rating is 8lb. Although to me it’s an all round float rod.

I doubled the number because I know Julian always buys rods in pair😂

I know a lot of people collecting trainers. Some limited editions are surprisingly valuable and hard to come by.

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