what would you buy?

[Stewart 1971]

Will aTTLD really cast 6oz and bait and not wobble about in the wind/tides? Looks too parabolic/c curved to do any weed hauling, even on a clean beach?

Certainly will. I'm quite happy to pendulum 6oz plus bait with mine, it sat lovely in the tripod last night and there was still a canny sea running. It would be no good with the aerialised Brighton cast I've seen a few people using but that is the fault of the cast not the rod. As for weed hauling what weed? I've spent the last 20 years fishing in the Solent where a typical weed fish looks like this:



If you mean kelp then no but the TTLD isn't designed to be a rough ground / kelp rod. It is however a fantastic clean / mixed ground fishing rod. As for tide apart from the end of Shields there isn't much tide up here, certainly not compared to Aldbrough and some of the Solent beaches where I've used and abused mine.

I've had smoothhound just short of double figures on mine, they go like an express train and it was great fun. Australian casting champ Jeremy Schrader regularly uses his fishing for 20lb plus Ray and Gummy Shark off the Melbourne surf beaches while Kieth White who was involved in the prototype testing of the TTLD reckons it is a 250 yard plus rod on the field (I only managed just over 200 but then I'm not a top caster). It is a very thin blank but deceptively powerful and is much much more than a light beach / Bass rod that many people mistakenly characterise it as.

I rate the TTLD as the best fishing rod I've ever owned - can you tell?

[john/r]

I am after some advice.

what would you buy?

eliminator

ttr

compressor s

compresser ss

i have already had loads of advice off lads on the pier about all of the rods above,but i can not decide what to buy.

i do have problems with my back and people have told me the eliminator is too heavy and this is what i was going to buy.

danny

out of the rods you mention with out doubt it would be the compreesor s i have cast one myself nice rod. compressor ss a very powerful rod.