just bought a greys grx-s

Member Joined: Jan 18, 2009 Posts: 20 Location: chorley

any one jnow of decent f/spool to combine it with

Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2009 4:33 pm

hi mate, i brough 1 of tho greys grx last year. i went fish on a beach in suffork fisrt cast i broke the rod in 2 crying

. so i sent it back to greys, 2week later i got it back and i went fishing again this time the top eye ring flew off angry

. so i will never buy greys rod again

Member Joined: Jan 18, 2009 Posts: 20 Location: chorley

fill me with confidence why dont you,have you heard of other ppl having problems/

Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2009 4:55 pm

you mite find them alrite mate, but im just saying wat happen to me

Member Joined: Jan 18, 2009 Posts: 20 Location: chorley

hope i have better luck,its my first decent rod,just jacked course fishing in and all though iv been sea fishing quite a bit on holidays im still quite a novice....just my luck broke enough poles to know how it feels cheers pal

Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2009 2:17 pm

good luck with your sea fishing mate hope i all goes well?

Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2009 4:13 pm

I have heard of those Greys busting elsewhere (soz). I have two Diawas and two Okuma FS reels and they have both taken a fair bit of punishment. Don't buy the really cheap Okumas though. Of the two I prefer the Diawas as they are definitely smoother. Make sure that there is plenty of depth to the spool skirt whatever you get - some are very shallow and line can get trapped underneath - Penns are particularly bad for this.

Joined: Dec 29, 2008 Posts: 3 Location: christchurch

i have a greys greyflexs and a pz match and i havnt had any trouble with them ,even though they are rated at 5 ounce they have had 6 ounce and a fair size bait on wiyhout any trouble at all

Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2009 1:17 pm

There seems to be a problem with the new greys rods being weaker than the older models, the older ones could take some abuse whereas the new ones dont seem to be able to take a decent cast. I have 2 PZ300T's an 2 PZ Match rods that are really good being older models, but I wouldn't buy another greys rod after the amount of substandard rods that have been sent out in the last year. sad

Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2009 9:26 pm

Hi chaps,

My first Greys rod was the GRX I still have it ( 5 years on) and had not probs, it has caught me many fish, I now use the Triplex 16ft no probs for the past 3 years. I have in total 17 Greys rods, and have only had 2 problems with them snaping.I find that Greys have no problems replacing any broken rods with no questions asked. I must admit I live 12 miles from the Factory in Alnwick so replacment is no probs. If you are ever going up the A1 past Alnwick ( 35 miles north of Newcastle) pop into the factory, they have a shop and musem as they are part of the Hardys set up.

In the factory shop go to the top right hand side and there are rods for sale at half price, they tend to be ex demos, but are good.

Every year they have a clearance sale, last one was back in December, people come from all over the kingdom. Last year they were selling of Apollo mark2 for £100, uptides for £55 bargins galore.

I walked away with another 4 rods including a seaspin for £40.

The new Sonic rods come from a factory 20 miles south of me ,I may pay them a visit soon and see what they have up for grabs.