afishinado
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PALongbow wrote:
Play a fish on glass rod and you will no why people fish glass. Glass delivers a nice bend in the rod and you will actually feel the fish fight. Also as others have stated its a slower action. Glass also provides a more delicate delivery especially if you match it with the right line. Nothing better than a glass rod and a Cortland Peach 444 DT line.
Ron
Glass rod / Peach line...that was my rig back somewhere in the 70's and early 80's...lol.
Each to his own.
Carbon graphite is taking a beating in this thread. In the interest of equal time, and since graphite represents more than 90% of the rod sales...here is my take...
I still have some of those older glass rods. I remember when graphite rods were first introduced. I spin-fished back in those days and couldn't get over how sensitive the new graphite rods were compared to the glass ones I fished. I could feel every vibration of the lure and actually could feel along the bottom with my lures and jigs. I spent a fortune converting all my spin and bait-casting rods to graphite. I
I bought a graphite fly rod and found it to be a huge improvement...I loved it! It was like I drove a car with one gear (low) with the glass rod and now had a more versatile rod that allowed me to do things the glass rod never could do. My glass rods have collected dust ever since. Every once in a while I'll pull out an old glass and cast it....yep....back in the tube you go...
While the newer S-Glass rods are lighter and more responsive than the older E-glass rods, I really don't care for them at all compared to the graphite rods I own.
Again, to each his own...