FINDING THE PERFECT ROD
OF THE THOUSANDS OF tackle questions I’ve received over the past 50 or more years, the huge majority have been about rods. In the early days they concerned what to use for better casting, how to make or mend a spigot joint and about ring spacings. It was a long list skewed towards DIY rod-making.
Blank designs fell into clear categories, such as fast taper and reverse taper. The external differences were so obvious that a monkey could spot them. Fast rods were thin at the top and fat at the bottom. Slow ones were more like a stick of rhubarb, virtually the same diameter from tip ring to butt cap or even reverse-tapered. They were all-glass, or glass and aluminium. And very basic glass fibre it was
