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Drennan specialist rods

Andrew Prosser said:
I never think to look for or at shimano rods, and i don't know why!
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The older ones pre 2010 were awesome and you were spoilt for choice. Iā€™ve not long since sold my purist which was overrated if you ask me. Average rod sold for above average money.
Iā€™m working on my step dad to flog me his stradic specialist. Heā€™s got a minter thatā€™s hardly used. Itā€™s a cracking rod that would put a lot of more sought after rods to shame (like my old purist).
I donā€™t like glass tips at all. They bend way too far back in the tip and nearly never blend nicely with the blank. Carbon and quite long for me. I never feel the need to go less than 2oz. Certainly not necessary for chub.
 
Thereā€™s a pair on eBay. Collect from Sudbury. If itā€™s the right rod its worth the effort of traveling for.
 

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I have a pair of the series 7 Avon quiver 12ā€™ that I would sell as Iā€™m not going to use them anytime soon . The problem is both the Avon sections are a few inches short and I only have one bag. I did buy some replacement tips for the quiver sections.

I wouldnā€™t be looking for top dollar for them
 
Andrew Prosser said:
I never think to look for or at shimano rods, and i don't know why!
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Ordinarily I wouldn't of done either. However whilst reading some chub books that rod came up in discussions, and the bonus to my mind is the very long painted white quiver tips, that had isotope fittings already on.

Another fantastic rod that I failed to look at was the old TF gear River and stream, think Tony Miles extolled their virtues, whilst working for them years ago.
 
Richard Isaacs said:
The older ones pre 2010 were awesome and you were spoilt for choice. Iā€™ve not long since sold my purist which was overrated if you ask me. Average rod sold for above average money.
Iā€™m working on my step dad to flog me his stradic specialist. Heā€™s got a minter thatā€™s hardly used. Itā€™s a cracking rod that would put a lot of more sought after rods to shame (like my old purist).
I donā€™t like glass tips at all. They bend way too far back in the tip and nearly never blend nicely with the blank. Carbon and quite long for me. I never feel the need to go less than 2oz. Certainly not necessary for chub.
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Was a stradic specialist on ebay i think very recently šŸ˜‰
 
Hi All
I've got a pair of Shimano Techniciums specialists which I've had from new, and can confirm that they are great Chub rods, especially if you like rods that bend all the way down to the butt! Also free spirit specialist advanced 11 ft 1lb 2oz with quiver section, very fine taper quiver tips, but rare as rocking horse s##t. The Shimano come up for sale quite often on eBay and go for anything between Ā£40 - 85, but the specialists are two price rods and the quiver/feeder version are three piece rods
Regards Wayne
 
Wayne Robinson said:
Hi All
I've got a pair of Shimano Techniciums specialists which I've had from new, and can confirm that they are great Chub rods, especially if you like rods that bend all the way down to the butt! Also free spirit specialist advanced 11 ft 1lb 2oz with quiver section, very fine taper quiver tips, but rare as rocking horse s##t. The Shimano come up for sale quite often on eBay and go for anything between Ā£40 - 85, but the specialists are two price rods and the quiver/feeder version are three piece rods
Regards Wayne
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Got 2 of those hi s small water rods with the quiver sections great rods, but the avon top is quite heavy.
 
Julian Griffiths said:
Keep an eye out for the old drennan medium feeder combo 11'-12'6" rod (not sure if the exact dimensions) but had the lime coloured graphics on it.
Nothing short of what is a brilliant rod, great for all the main species, chub to 8lb plus on mine, & accidental flood water Barbel of 11lb plus, have fallen to tbis rod of mine. So good infact, I saw one in ebay 2 yrs ago and brought it as a back up rod.
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This was a brilliant chub rod. Mine met a unfortunate end as i was in a rush having sold a rod on ebay tht needed packaging and sending out. Grabbed the first tube in the cupboard cut it down to size only to find this poor rod was in the tube and was now a 7 piece. Not had a rod as good for chub since.
 
Ben Jennings said:
This was a brilliant chub rod. Mine met a unfortunate end as i was in a rush having sold a rod on ebay tht needed packaging and sending out. Grabbed the first tube in the cupboard cut it down to size only to find this poor rod was in the tube and was now a 7 piece. Not had a rod as good for chub since.
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Oh dear! To be honest. I've not seen any of these on eBay recently either.
I was lucky to ask a local tackle shop if they had one knocking about when they decided to close down. To my amazement they did, but knowing they were hard to come by I had to pay full retail. But atleast I secured it.
 
Ben Jennings said:
This was a brilliant chub rod. Mine met a unfortunate end as i was in a rush having sold a rod on ebay tht needed packaging and sending out. Grabbed the first tube in the cupboard cut it down to size only to find this poor rod was in the tube and was now a 7 piece. Not had a rod as good for chub since.
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I feel sick...
 
Don't ask him to elaborate Rich, poor bloke suffered enough.
I am sure we have had similar mishaps, mine mainly by my young aspiring angling boys. Once (Richard) slammed the car door on my brand new Wilson Avon chopping 4 inches off the butt. Another (Phillip) on walking to our pegs on a lake smashed the tip of another brand new Shimano waggler rod.
The latter once fell of a 20ft weir ledge complete with rod in hand attached to an eel, he made the perfect splashless entry, and resurfaced completely unharmed with rod and eel still attached, and with his Drennan cap intact.
How we laughedšŸ¤£
 
Neil Smart said:
Don't ask him to elaborate Rich, poor bloke suffered enough.
I am sure we have had similar mishaps, mine mainly by my young aspiring angling boys. Once (Richard) slammed the car door on my brand new Wilson Avon chopping 4 inches off the butt. Another (Phillip) on walking to our pegs on a lake smashed the tip of another brand new Shimano waggler rod.
The latter once fell of a 20ft weir ledge complete with rod in hand attached to an eel, he made the perfect splashless entry, and resurfaced completely unharmed with rod and eel still attached, and with his Drennan cap intact.
How we laughedšŸ¤£
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My best mate from school took a ā€œsuperā€ cast with a large deadbait (bail arm still on) and shoved the entire lot through the other rod sitting next to him (my fox pike master)

no one was laughing that day. I occasionally do now mind šŸ˜‚
 
I must be lucky thenā€¦.
I have a mint pair of super specialist Duoā€™s in both flavours 1.25 & 1.5lb
I also have one each of the original super specialist single tip rods which again are mintā€¦.
The 1.5lb rod is superb for floater fishing for carp had them up to 15lb on 8 lb main lineā€¦.
 
Richard Isaacs said:
And they are the worst possible inventions going.
try using one without any isotopes on them and youā€™ll see exactly what I mean.
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I've kept that comment you mentioned in my mind since May Richard šŸ˜‚
I took that Shimano technium specialist out for its 1st outing last week and your right, the line did get caught up on those isotope fittings, but only the one isolated incident thank fully. šŸ˜‚
 
Julian Griffiths said:
I've kept that comment you mentioned in my mind since May Richard šŸ˜‚
I took that Shimano technium specialist out for its 1st outing last week and your right, the line did get caught up on those isotope fittings, but only the one isolated incident thank fully. šŸ˜‚
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Stripped them off (now mine) stradic specialist
Caused me nothing but bloody grief especially on windy days.
 
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