Abu garcia enticer and Daiwa supercast

Posted: Sun May 15, 2011 8:01 pm

Bought 2 rods today second hand both 12ft in VGC ,also a coleman storm lamp petrol electronic start for £50 has anybody used these rods and what did they think.

CHEERS

DAZ big grin

Posted: Mon May 16, 2011 7:10 am

Just sold a Diawa supercast 13ft to kayakfishing. Im sure he will give you a write up of it when he uses it. I loved that rod and it was beautiful to cast with winking

Posted: Mon May 16, 2011 7:38 am

The Diawa supercast I gave to Littlerabbi cost me £230, I just couldn't get used to coasters.
After giving it to him I had a fugie reel seat fitted for him and 4in removed from the butt,

Now I want it back great rod and you can really bully the fish in.
Cheers
keith big grin

Posted: Mon May 16, 2011 5:51 pm

That rod is a mulitplier rod but dont have a multiplier can I use a FS or is it worth buying 1 ? confused

DAZ

Posted: Mon May 16, 2011 6:38 pm

No I would not use a fixed spool on this rod as there is a chance of the line wrapping around the lower ring during the cast and getting a snap off or even worse damaging the ring itself.

If you decide to get a multiplier then dont get a cheepie but get ine with a decent breaking system.
Cheers
keith big grin

Posted: Mon May 16, 2011 7:19 pm

or you could get the rod re-rung, probably cost the same as a decent 2nd hand multi and you wouldnt have the hassle of trying to get used to it.

ive seen them coleman lanterns go for £50 on their own so a good bargain was had big grin

Posted: Mon May 16, 2011 7:49 pm

flattiefanatic wrote:

Just sold a Diawa supercast 13ft to kayakfishing. Im sure he will give you a write up of it when he uses it. I loved that rod and it was beautiful to cast with winking

going out this saturday with the new rod winking

i'll let you know how i get on

Posted: Mon May 16, 2011 7:54 pm

Cheers for the advice lads nice one winking

DAZ

What a shame missus wont beleive got to buy new reel how gutted am I LOL big grin

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I wouldn't necessarily avoid a FS with a multiplier-rung rod. I tend to feel there are too few rings on FS rods. And line catches around butt rings on those too sometimes. Give it a try first with some light casting and see how it goes. I've got a rod that is supposedly FS-rung, but is not much different to a mult-rung.

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Daiwa Supercast mk2, I have a pair still, what a fantastic rod all round.

Tim. cool

Posted: Tue May 17, 2011 6:01 am

The Diawa Supercast Paul Kerry was a far better rod though.
Cheers
keith big grin

Guest

Yes Kieth,

I agree, the mk2's that I have are the Paul Kerry "PKSC12M", I have 11

beachcasters altogether and would only part with the Paul Kerry's the right

money, I dont use them very often as I tend to use a lighter rods due to my

upper body joint probs.

Tim. cool

Posted: Tue May 17, 2011 3:03 pm

kayakfishing wrote:

going out this saturday with the new rod winking

i'll let you know how i get on

Going to miss that rod m8, i hope it brings you luck as it did with me winking

Posted: Tue May 17, 2011 7:26 pm

IT is the Paul kerry rod so can anyone recommend a decent multiplier to go with it about £70 £80 to spare keeping in mind that I have not used a multiplier.

CHEERS
DAZ cool

Posted: Tue May 17, 2011 8:11 pm

I tend to shy away from the smaller multipliers but any of the Abu range have a good braking system. The reason I go for the larger reels like the Abu 7,000 range is because if a snap off occurs the you normally have enough line on the spool to carry on fishing by just putting on a new shock leader, the other reason is that at the end of a season you can reverse the line so that the line on the spool that has never seen daylight comes into use and the old section of line becomes the backing for the new section. Make sense?
Cheers
keith big grin