Why use a noodle rod?
When you use heavy tackle, the fish can see your thick mono line, seeyour big anchor...oops! I mean hook. It gets spooked, it is reluctantto feed.
One solution is to downsize the terminal tackle until it is invisible to the fish.
Use thin mono line to tie hooks, use smaller hook. Use smaller sinker.
Less splash, less noise, less stiff bait presentation.
Fish is interested, eats bait. Fish is hooked!
It turns on its after-burner and powers away at Warp 5.
Now you are faced with another problem.
Your hook may get straighten out, your mono leader or mainline may snap in the tug-o-war.
Your usual rod is just too stiff to handle such a delicate situation. Enter the Noodle rod.
You need a rod that is so soft, so springy, that it can absorb all the sudden jerks in any power-runs.
You need a Noodle rod. How to use the Noodle rod.
The Noodle rod should always be pointing skywards at 12 o'clockposition. When a fish dashes off, your rod tip will bend 90degrees tothe 3 o'clock position.
The fish is fighting the combined drag of your reel and the bentrod. After several attempts, the fish can be hundreds of metres away.And exhausted.
Now increase your drag setting a notch and start reeling that biggie back, slowly. Just keep a constant pressure on the fish.
Fight the fish with the rod, not the reel. Pump it, don't just reel it in. You should stress the noodle rod to its max for optimum performance.That means it should bend until it's a "C" shape. The load will betransferred to the butt end which is the strongest part of the rod.
SO BEND THAT ROD!! Break it if you can...but it won't break, believe me. hehe. what size reel to match this rod?
This skinny rod conquers biggies by totally tiring out the fish, and then you reel it in slowly.
I'd landed fishes that initially spooled out 300m of line.
So what's a good size reel?
2000 or 2500.
Spool in 4 - 8 lb braided line. Top up the end with 5m of 8 lb mono line.
Most of your fishing will be done on this 5m of mono. When frayed, just cut it off and tie another length of mono to it.
Des T
(this is a re-post from Backyard Marketplace. Besides those new140plus noodle rodders there, others here might also find this infouseful.)
This 115 cm Barracuda was landed with a noodle rod.
Ah.......noodle rod......brings back some good memory of Steelhead fishing in Canada.
I think a noodle rod works much like an ISO rod, light line, small hook, big fish!
Ah.......noodle rod......brings back some good memory of Steelhead fishing in Canada.
I think a noodle rod works much like an ISO rod, light line, small hook, big fish!
arcticwind 發表於 2009-5-11 02:30
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