Get the Pro’s Nods with the Right Fishing Rods
Fishing, hunting and gathering is how people used to provide food for themselves for several thousands of years. In time, they developed tools that helped them ease those processes in the form of rods, bows, arrows, spears, etc. Bows and spears have been replaced a long time ago with guns. Rods on the other hand, have remained the same and have done a great job as a means of catching fish for thousands and thousands of years.
Granted, the way they are made and the materials used in the process have been changed, but they have remained the same in the essence. Some fishing rods are made of high-tech materials like fiberglass, graphite and boron, but there is also a variety of wooden rods that can easily be found on the Internet. You can buy spinning rods online with relative ease, a type of rods that is extremely popular among professional anglers.
But before you order spinning rods online, it’s important that you understand some of the terms that you are likely to find on the specs sheets – power, reel, line length and action. All of these will affect how your rod performs and what type of fish it’s recommended for.
Power
The fishing rod’s power is determined by the amount of pressure you have to apply to bend the fishing rod. Some rods come in a variety of ranges when it comes to power, for example, medium-heavy, ultra-light, ultra-heavy, etc. The lighter the rod is, the less pressure you need to apply to bend it. Light rods are best used when fishing for small fish. Heavy rods are the exact opposite – they require more pressure to be bent and are better for deep-sea fishing, or larger species of fish in general.
Action
The action of the rod describes how easy and how far from the tip the road will bend. Actions are usually similar among most rods. They are generally divided into three sub categories – fast, slow and medium. Fast rods bend not far away from the tip, while slow rods bend somewhere close to the middle of the rod. The flexing point of medium rods can be anywhere in between the fast and slow action rods.
Length
This is very debatable among anglers. Longer rods pick up more line, which can help if the fisherman is caught out of position when swinging. Longer rods can also fix some errors that the anglers make, as well as provide better balance when pressure is applied against the surges and jumping hooked fish.
