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Stiffer v Softer Rods.
With the recent progression on stiffer and stiffer rods from the manufacturers (which I personally struggle with 
) I have been having some deep thoughts 
on controlability and userability to help improve my distances.
So today at whilst doing my weekly casting training schedule, I thought I'd give something a try to see if a softer rod would work.
I made a succession of practice casts with my normal set-up and placed markers at the relevant positions, I then used the same reel and line and attched to a softer rod to gauge the difference in distance and again used markers and finally I used a much softer rod keeping everything as close to being the same as possible.
What this resulted in was my usual set-up whilst being powerful and giving good distances in the mid 40's the softer rod was giving similar results, give or take a metre.
My final test using my softest rod was a constant battle not to overload the rod prior to finishing the cast, and on 1 cast it actually went further
at just under 50.
On reflection the tests where probably stupid as the T38 shooting head is a real beast even on my GLoomis T116-38 Tournament rod, the 9-10# 10' Airflow Delta seemed to strugle with it's 'through' action. Whilst the TFO 5#TiCRx became overloaded if cast over zealously, but if the final haul was timed well the line flew like a javelin allowing the rod to recover quickly.
I just thought that I'd share my findings with you.
) I have been having some deep thoughts on controlability and userability to help improve my distances.So today at whilst doing my weekly casting training schedule, I thought I'd give something a try to see if a softer rod would work.
I made a succession of practice casts with my normal set-up and placed markers at the relevant positions, I then used the same reel and line and attched to a softer rod to gauge the difference in distance and again used markers and finally I used a much softer rod keeping everything as close to being the same as possible.
What this resulted in was my usual set-up whilst being powerful and giving good distances in the mid 40's the softer rod was giving similar results, give or take a metre.
My final test using my softest rod was a constant battle not to overload the rod prior to finishing the cast, and on 1 cast it actually went further
at just under 50.On reflection the tests where probably stupid as the T38 shooting head is a real beast even on my GLoomis T116-38 Tournament rod, the 9-10# 10' Airflow Delta seemed to strugle with it's 'through' action. Whilst the TFO 5#TiCRx became overloaded if cast over zealously, but if the final haul was timed well the line flew like a javelin allowing the rod to recover quickly.
I just thought that I'd share my findings with you.
so I can't upload it.
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