Had a session at the Spile yesterday with my Kompressor SS Mk2 with metal joint rings up for swap for a Mk1 Kompressor Sport and Abu 7000.
Thanks for dropping down to show me them Lee.
Anyway the difference wasn't anything significant and I saw no reason to swap.
The SS is a beast of a rod and I just can't wind it up to get the best out of it. I'm pushing 70 and not built like Godzilla so I can't achieve any real distance that the rod can chuck a lead.
To emphasise that, big Ken, Himself26 on here, turned up to have a few chucks with a new Nemesis and also had a crack at the SS.
Now, I was also using the Okuma Magnetix 20 on it with 50lb braid. Mag 20 is a level wind too so that restricts the distance a bit as well.
Anyway Ken emptied my spool when he cast. I mean down to the knot.....
Line diameter of .35 so that's around 200m. Whoever said Okuma were $hit are wrong. I think they're good value for money. It did show that my casting is a load of $hite and I must admit a few lessons would no doubt improve that but possibly not significantly, but it more than anything seemed to show me that the SS is just too much of a beast for someone of my age without Popeye style muscles.
Anyway that's by the by.
Ken has offered a look at a Nemesis Plus and a six and bait for swap potential.
The SS has a single inner ceramic liner lost due to my rod stand getting dragged over yesterday with the huge swell although the ceramic is still in place.
I've also had an offer of a Zippy Profile with a £50 top-up from me.
Not keen on anything other than a straight swap really.
What I seem to think would be suitable is the Tip Tornado Sport.
What I need is something I can bend, something with the flexibility to bend gently in a swell rather than surge all over the place and which has a positive bite detection.
I don't have a lot of knowledge on rods myself so of course would like to try some of the ones out that members think would be OK.
In the end I might just stick with the SS and eat more meat and take a few casting lessons.
Just to top out my question I have a few rods for different sorts of ground.
I have a Daiwa Seahunter as a bass rod and for flatties. The Sonik SKS for light light clean beach work and estuary, a SK3 for beach where a bigger swell or longer casting distance demands something extra as well as some snaggy marks, a Maxx Surf 15' for clean beach at a distance and of course the SS. Ths Maxx was something of a mistake though and lesson learned there.
So I have most areas covered but the SS is the one I have the problem with.
Thanks for dropping down to show me them Lee.
Anyway the difference wasn't anything significant and I saw no reason to swap.
The SS is a beast of a rod and I just can't wind it up to get the best out of it. I'm pushing 70 and not built like Godzilla so I can't achieve any real distance that the rod can chuck a lead.
To emphasise that, big Ken, Himself26 on here, turned up to have a few chucks with a new Nemesis and also had a crack at the SS.
Now, I was also using the Okuma Magnetix 20 on it with 50lb braid. Mag 20 is a level wind too so that restricts the distance a bit as well.
Anyway Ken emptied my spool when he cast. I mean down to the knot.....
Line diameter of .35 so that's around 200m. Whoever said Okuma were $hit are wrong. I think they're good value for money. It did show that my casting is a load of $hite and I must admit a few lessons would no doubt improve that but possibly not significantly, but it more than anything seemed to show me that the SS is just too much of a beast for someone of my age without Popeye style muscles.
Anyway that's by the by.
Ken has offered a look at a Nemesis Plus and a six and bait for swap potential.
The SS has a single inner ceramic liner lost due to my rod stand getting dragged over yesterday with the huge swell although the ceramic is still in place.
I've also had an offer of a Zippy Profile with a £50 top-up from me.
Not keen on anything other than a straight swap really.
What I seem to think would be suitable is the Tip Tornado Sport.
What I need is something I can bend, something with the flexibility to bend gently in a swell rather than surge all over the place and which has a positive bite detection.
I don't have a lot of knowledge on rods myself so of course would like to try some of the ones out that members think would be OK.
In the end I might just stick with the SS and eat more meat and take a few casting lessons.
Just to top out my question I have a few rods for different sorts of ground.
I have a Daiwa Seahunter as a bass rod and for flatties. The Sonik SKS for light light clean beach work and estuary, a SK3 for beach where a bigger swell or longer casting distance demands something extra as well as some snaggy marks, a Maxx Surf 15' for clean beach at a distance and of course the SS. Ths Maxx was something of a mistake though and lesson learned there.
So I have most areas covered but the SS is the one I have the problem with.
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