Thu Mar 22, 2012 11:27 am
Thu Mar 22, 2012 11:39 am
kstaff wrote:XTR stands for 'xperimental Tournament Rod' and it ain't something you'd want to be attached to with 40lb of muscle pulling the other way!
I have by US standards a small amount of experience with big fish from the shore, but the one thing I have learnt - mostly the hard way - is that you need a rod that bends when something heavy is pulling back!
When not on the field the XTR is used mainly as a rock end rod in the UK, that's skull dragging fish out of boulders the size of a truck covered in kelp.
The original TXR was a fabulas rod, I used one at the NEC demonstrating casting over a lake and it was so easy to cast with a wonderfully progressive action.
Sadly, with today's wannabe casters demanding stiffer and stiffer rods to compenstae for little if any style the current XTR is nothing like the original. Stay well clear for a fishing rod from clean beaches.
Telling it like it is with apologies to no one. BB
That beautiful quote courtesy of casting legend Neil McKellow advising someone against an XTR for fishing!
I'm off to tie pennel pulley rigs with size 6 Aberdeen match hooks!
Thu Mar 22, 2012 1:10 pm
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Mon Mar 26, 2012 2:37 pm
kstaff wrote:the XTR makes a good fishing rod
is fiction ,
Mon Mar 26, 2012 3:31 pm
Mon Mar 26, 2012 4:58 pm
rocketman wrote:.
lads i think ye should have a casting comp both using each rod then a fishing comp with both rods with some kind of aggregate scoring system to decide which rod is better either that or just get a room
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Mon Mar 26, 2012 5:10 pm
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Tue Mar 27, 2012 10:57 am
baitdigger wrote:The zzippy is ideal for anyone of the masses who must have the ZZiplex label on their rod
Tue Mar 27, 2012 11:39 am
Extractorkstaff wrote:Extractor every time brilliant fishing rod, the XTR is not, no contest.
Tue Mar 27, 2012 4:13 pm
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