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Advice on new rods

If I had some decent tench waters up here Joe I'd love to give it a go but alas bit of a tench desert.
I don't target Bream but do catch a few when I fish a local ressy, but use a heavy feeder rod and a lovely 12'6" Carbonactive feeder bought off a member on here
Nice bloke I recall
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The 11ft specialist torrix in both 1.75 and 2lb is probably my favourite barbel rod to date.

The action difference between them imo is a stighty stiffer tip on the 2lb rod but I don’t think I could pick a favorite.
I currently own a pair of 1.75’s, had them 3-4 years now and wouldn’t swap them for another rod.
However I wouldn’t of bought them without first trying them and now that I know them inside out and back to front, I wouldn’t advise anyone to buy one without trying one either.

Torrix’s split barbel anglers and that’s the truth. Some love em and some don’t.
They are a more advanced faster actioned rod. The top 2 feet is fast and sensitive. Superb for bite detection,
You’ve then got this progressive medium action mid section which with a decent degree of force will bend right through to the point of about 18inch above the handle. This is the rods backbone and the bit I love the most.
It does bend here right to the cork but when that’s happening, your into something really quite nice. Certainly a double.

It’s a long way off a classical barbel rod action where more traditional anglers are swayed. GTI and chimera are more medium to through actioned rods and these are much safer buying blind. They don’t split barbel anglers like torrixs do.

Point I’m making Is don’t rush or be impatient. Try em out and spend 600 notes on the right ones
 
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Richard Isaacs said:
The 11ft specialist torrix in both 1.75 and 2lb is probably my favourite barbel rod to date.

The action difference between them imo is a stighty stiffer tip on the 2lb rod but I don’t think I could pick a favorite.
I currently own a pair of 1.75’s, had them 3-4 years now and wouldn’t swap them for another rod.
However I wouldn’t of bought them without first trying them and now that I know them inside out and back to front, I wouldn’t advise anyone to buy one without trying one either.

Torrix’s split barbel anglers and that’s the truth. Some love em and some don’t.
They are a more advanced faster actioned rod. The top 2 feet is fast and sensitive. Superb for bite detection,
You’ve then got this progressive medium action mid section which with a decent degree of force will bend right through to the point of about 18inch above the handle. This is the rods backbone and the bit I love the most.
It does bend here right to the cork but when that’s happening, your into something really quite nice. Certainly a double.

It’s a long way off a classical barbel rod action where more traditional anglers are swayed. GTI and chimera are more medium to through actioned rods and these are much safer buying blind. They don’t split barbel anglers like torrixs do.

Point I’m making Is don’t rush or be impatient. Try em out and spend 600 notes on the right ones
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very well explained, but I'd still buy one blind ( in fact I did) - there are fish to catch and time's marching on
 
Sake what's wrong with you folk talking up a piece of carbon that is really not worth that sort of money...bonkers. Torrix are nice rods but no need to pay over the odds..check out Bob the Rod, if you know you know if you don't just ask.
 
Neil Smart said:
Sake what's wrong with you folk talking up a piece of carbon that is really not worth that sort of money...bonkers. Torrix are nice rods but no need to pay over the odds..check out Bob the Rod, if you know you know if you don't just ask.
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Bob retired earlier this year and moved to Devon… no more rod building planned.
 
Nick Buss is a good builder and well priced, does not do real fancy builds, if you want a bit more custom work then John Hennessy is you’re man but if you want a standard custom Nick Buss will do you a good job.

Both builders are good friends of mine and both would do you know wrong.
 
Neil Smart said:
Sake what's wrong with you folk talking up a piece of carbon that is really not worth that sort of money...bonkers. Torrix are nice rods but no need to pay over the odds..check out Bob the Rod, if you know you know if you don't just ask.
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Think he's just retired Neil...very inconsiderate of him!😂
 
I think it depends on what your comparing a Torrix with , I mean if you have access to all the high end rods you’d have a better idea , if your upgrading from a budget rod I don’t see how you’ll fail to be impressed by it , or even amazed by it like I was , there light , crisp and just lovely to use . I already own the 1.75 Dark Carbon and the 11ft 2.0 Torrix gets the all the use it deserves .
 
Kevin Brown said:
I think it depends on what your comparing a Torrix with , I mean if you have access to all the high end rods you’d have a better idea , if your upgrading from a budget rod I don’t see how you’ll fail to be impressed by it , or even amazed by it like I was , there light , crisp and just lovely to use . I already own the 1.75 Dark Carbon and the 11ft 2.0 Torrix gets the all the use it deserves .
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Harrison Torrix have always been my favourite blank, when I can afford it, I think the 2lb's will be my next build, & will start to off load my other rods.
 
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