The Ultimate Fishing Rod Crash Course
BY BRIAN SAK
Don’t choose your next new fishing stick blindly – get the one you need by basing your decision on several rod-specific features
Surgeons could operate with sharp steak knives if they were forced to. And carpenters might pound nails with stones if there was nothing else available. And anglers would be able to catch fish with sticks, short lengths of twine and crude hooks if that’s all they had.
But no matter the task, the success rate is usually tied directly to the tools available — do anything with less than the best equipment, and the odds of doing a good job go down.
Although ingenuity allows us to make do with what we have, it’s our inventive nature that leads to effectiveness and efficiency. Think about what today’s world would be like without the scalpel, hammer and rod and reel.
Over the years, the bass industry has taken the development of fishing gear to exciting heights. And that’s especially evident in rod advancements. With most designs fitting one or
