What are the types of fishing rods?
Fishing rod is the main part of fishing tackle, and commonly used fishing rods are hand rod and sea rod. Homemade bamboo fishing rods are rare now. Most fishing friends buy glass fiber rods, carbon fiber rods and carbon-coated rods from fishing gear shops.
1, carbon fiber rod
Carbon fiber rod, also called carbon rod, is a new fishing rod produced in China in the 1990s. The main feature of carbon fiber rods is portability. Carbon fiber rods with the same length are almost half as light as glass fiber rods. A carbon fiber rod more than 5 meters long weighs only about 300 grams, and the rod body is much thinner than the glass fiber rod. In recent years, the use of carbon fiber fishing rod is very popular, and its excellent performance has been recognized by most anglers.
Carbon fiber rod is made of high-tech material-carbon fiber, which is characterized by high strength, heat resistance, light weight and corrosion resistance. Its disadvantages are thermal conductivity, electrical conductivity and brittleness, and its toughness is not as good as that of glass fiber rod. When fishing, if you encounter thunderstorm weather, you are prone to lightning strikes, and if you encounter high-voltage wires, you will get an electric shock. In this regard, it is necessary to arouse the attention and vigilance of fishermen. In order to prevent accidents in the process of using carbon fiber rods, you can buy an anti-electric handle cover from a fishing gear shop and put it on the handle at the end of the rod. Be sure to cover the head of the handle completely, then put the sleeve in and bake it with alcohol lamp, so that the rubber sleeve and the handle can be firmly bonded together. But the insulated handle can never withstand lightning and high voltage, which must be known.
2, glass fiber rod
Glass fiber rod is a fishing tackle made of chemical raw materials such as glass fiber. Glass fiber rod is lighter than bamboo rod, not afraid of water, corrosion-resistant, and not easy to break and deform. Fishing friends who use this kind of rod prefer hollow glass fiber rod with good toughness and firmness, and its length is mostly within 10 meter.
The above two kinds of fishing rods have been widely used now. Carbon fiber poles are preferred by most people because of their good material and light weight, although the price is higher.
3. Carbon coated rod
Carbon-coated fishing rod is made of glass fiber as the main raw material, and a layer of carbon fiber cloth is added outside the glass fiber cloth, and resin is pre-impregnated. It is characterized by being lighter than a fishing rod made of glass fiber and having higher toughness and strength than a pure carbon fiber rod.
How to choose the right fishing rod
(1) Look at the appearance
First, open the leaking cover at the end of the fishing rod, and check whether there are gaps caused by bubble particles at both ends of each section, whether the fiber stripes are rough and messy, and whether the thickness of the joint is uniform. Then, see if the joint end (the part where the two rods meet after being drawn out) is hard, cracked and even.
What are the classifications of fishing rods?
Look at the words printed on the rod body again to see whether the pattern is clear, whether the color is bright or dark, and whether the boundary is clear. If the font is correct, the color is even and shiny, and the technology is acceptable, it is produced by a regular manufacturer. Some of them are also marked with ISO-9000 quality certification, which is a series of standard codes issued by the International Organization for Standardization to evaluate the quality assurance ability of enterprises. Some domestic fishing gear manufacturers have passed this quality certification, so it is safer to use this standard fishing rod.
(2) Listen to the sound
What are the classifications of fishing rods?
Tap the fishing rod gently with something hard. If the sound is crisp, it is a good rod. If the sound is dull, the quality is poor. Pull out the poles of each section and put them in one place, then fall to the ground vertically and gently, and listen to the sound of them colliding with the ground. If they are crisp, they are good poles. Then gently play the two joints of the pole with your fingers to hear if the sound is crisp and there are cracks.
(3) Specific gravity
The weight of carbon fiber rods is half or three-quarters of that of glass fiber rods of the same length. No matter what kind of pole you buy, you can compare it with another pole. A 3.6-meter-high carbon fiber rod weighs only about 200 grams, while a glass fiber rod of the same length weighs about 400 grams.
What are the classifications of fishing rods?
(D) Trial tonality
The tonality of fishing rod refers to the hardness of fishing rod body. The division method of tonality is to divide the fishing rod into 10 equal parts, hold the rod horizontally, and the intersection position between the radian formed by natural bending of the rod body and the straight part of the rod body is the basis for judging tonality. The tonality of poles is commonly known as 28 poles, 37 poles, 46 poles and so on. For example, if the intersection of the curved part and the straight part of the bar is in the first two sections of the bar tip, it is a rigid tone bar, the first three sections are medium tone bars, which are called Sanqi bars, and the first four sections are flexible tone bars, which are called 46 bars. Fishing rods with different tonality have their own characteristics and advantages and disadvantages.
The topic that fishermen often talk about is, is it better to buy a hard-tuned fishing rod or a soft-tuned fishing rod? Soft-tuned poles have stronger toughness, higher tensile strength and are not easy to break than hard-tuned poles. It is suitable for walking fish when fishing big fish, which can control the fish to swim in the water and is easy to pay off and take up the line. Hard adjusting rod is suitable for fishing small and medium-sized fish. Because the hardness of the pole tip is very strong, anglers can quickly stab the hook into the fish's lips when throwing the pole, especially in competitive fishing, which emphasizes the fast speed of China fish. Hard adjusting lever can give full play to its specialty. However, the hard adjusting rod is mostly made of carbon fiber, which is fragile and easy to break. Some fishermen choose a medium-hard fishing rod with moderate hardness. Judging from the use of fishermen, it is more common to use hard adjusting rods.
(5) Select the length of the rod
How long to choose, whether to use long pole or short pole, is also a topic of concern to fishermen.
Many anglers usually prepare two fishing rods when fishing informally, that is, a short rod and a slightly longer rod. People usually call a rod 2.7-3.6 meters long as a short rod, and a fishing rod over 6 meters long as a long rod. The most commonly used pole is 3.6-4.5 meters long. I think it is best to choose poles with a length of more than 4 meters. In outdoor recreational fishing, because the water surface is wide and the density of fish is low, there are few fish in the waters about 3 meters near the bank (except in spring), and most of them are 5-8 meters away from the shore, and the pole is too short to reach. There are many aquatic plants growing near the banks in many waters, so it is inconvenient to throw hooks. However, if you choose a fishing rod more than 4 meters long and then use a fishing line, the hook can be thrown into the water 6 meters away. When introducing his fishing rod, a master from Northeast China said that he used a 5.4-meter-long fishing rod with several handles with different diameters, which can be changed at any time according to the specific situation of fishing waters. In other words, the fishing rod can be shortened or extended by changing the handle, which is really a good method with strong flexibility.
Pocket rods are the shortest, each rod is nested less than 50 cm, short rods are nested about 80 cm, and long rods are nested about1.2m. Pocket rods are easy to carry, but not long enough. Except for tourists, it is not used for recreational fishing or competitive fishing. Short-joint rod is characterized by short section, convenient carrying and light weight. Its disadvantages are many sections and thin and weak polar walls at the junction of the two poles. Moreover, due to the large number of knots, the thickness of the pole tip and the pole handle is quite different, and the pole handle is heavier, which makes it feel top-heavy. It is precisely because of the large number of knots that it takes a lot of time to pull or close the pole. Long-section pole is the most used pole, with reasonable length, and can be stored in any car or ship. There are few knots in long-section rods, so the number of pumping is naturally less, and the gap between the thickness ratio of rod tip and rod handle is also relatively small. Buying high-quality carbon rods is lighter in weight, so choosing long-section rods is the first choice for fishing rods.