In reply to Post #12
Ok when did you last try to sell some high end rods then.
My Daiwa infinitys which are mint and cost me a bargain 400 quid each have been on tackletrader for months and aren't selling.
Could be that they are sh*te (which they aren't)
Could be that the country as a whole is bolloxed and no one has any money to spend.
Or it may be that you can buy way cheaper rods now with slightly less performance.
I bet if you ask a retailer how many bargain bucket rods they sell compared to Harrison... Free spirit etc it'll be 100 to 1.

In reply to Post #1
If I was spending my own money on budget rods I'd be spending 60 quid each on the new Sonik heros.
I reckon Sonik have sewn up the cheaper end value rods market and at the same time killed the market for higher end rods.
Fair play to them it's about time someone ripped up the rulebook.

In reply to Post #3
It was better than the one at Bowlers,
The only real bad point was having to queue up outside in the pouring rain for food.
Apart from that thumbs up from me

In reply to Post #1
Lets hope it's better than the one at Bowlers earlier this year which was truly terrible.

In reply to Post #84
Just had fish up to 50lb in France on these.....it's the only longer shank hook I've found with a wider gape on them.

In reply to Post #1
Can't have Shimano reels on Daiwa rods....you'll never catch anything on that pal

In reply to Post #1
I went to discount fishing tackle in Doncaster yesterday.

They have a very novel feature there...a bivvy city,
where they have literally set up and left probably 20 odd of the available bivvies on the market on their secure car park and just left them out there to the elements.

The ones which I would say were fairing the best were the Trakker aquatex versions and the fox frontier versions.

Most of everything else was varying degrees of faded not waterproof anymore garbage.

In reply to Post #1
I don't use my 3.75 test Infinity magnum tapers very often.

Went to use them on an overnighter on Friday and on one of them the spigot was very tight...to the point where if I didn't have a friend with me to undo it at the end of the session it would of been going home stuck out of the tailgate of the car.

One of the other ones was so tight it wouldn't go together at all.

Wet and dry required and a bit of fettling methinks...not too impressed on rods that cost me £400 apiece though

In reply to Post #1
Very simple to use...

Just bite and hold one end of the elastic in your teeth hold the other end and stretch away...position sinker wherever you like and release the pressure.

As a bonus... wet the elastic when it's trapped on the hooklength then you can pull it through and trim off really close so you don't waste any of the elastic

In reply to Post #1
I've had my RX + since they first came out.

Had them out in all weathers with absolutely no issues at all.