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Preston supera X power float rods.

I suppose we all did something wrong in the past.
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A few m8s of mine swapped their alloy framed mtb's for top quality, super stiff, non flex carbon framed bikes, they swapped them back after several of them shattered on impact landing after doing a big jump!
They also had the carbon handlebars just crack off also.
 
Huanzhou Zhu said:
I suppose we all did something wrong in the past.
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To be fair, I wouldn't do any of those things to normal metal guides. I've had the original Air AGS match rods for a few years now. They aren't my favourites, so they've not been heavily used, but I've had no issues with the guides. The smaller rings are all a bit too low for my preference. Float rods look like tip rods because of them. Whilst I'm not prepared to strip the rod for proof, I'm not entirely convinced that they offer a huge weight saving over normal metal framed guides.

Given a choice between the AGS guides and the seemingly unobtainable Fuji Titanium match guides, I'd have the Fuji every time.
 
Chris Jones said:
To be fair, I wouldn't do any of those things to normal metal guides. I've had the original Air AGS match rods for a few years now. They aren't my favourites, so they've not been heavily used, but I've had no issues with the guides. The smaller rings are all a bit too low for my preference. Float rods look like tip rods because of them. Whilst I'm not prepared to strip the rod for proof, I'm not entirely convinced that they offer a huge weight saving over normal metal framed guides.

Given a choice between the AGS guides and the seemingly unobtainable Fuji Titanium match guides, I'd have the Fuji every time.
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The guides are definitely lighter than normal ones, I weighed the first two sections of the 13ft rod I have, same weight as the acolyte specimen, but the wall of the blank is much thicker, I assume the ags guides saved a lot weight.
 
Richard Isaacs said:
I know nothing about these other than what I’ve read which sounds very interesting for us specimen river boys.

The supera has been about ages now and usually associated with pellet and carp waggler rods but to see something come out in sensible lengths with good casting and line ratings, it’s certainly got my attention to want to look at them further.

Good on you Preston it’s about time we had some other choices. I’d be very interested to hear if anyone gets their hands on one as to what They feel like.
Pricing suggests they should be very good as they ain’t cheap.
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I have the 14' Supera match. Though it's a standard match rod it's a great rod imo. It will handle big Chub as well as fish like Grayling, Roach etc. I even had a 6lb plus Salmon on mine! ( kelt but fought like stink).
 
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