Grauvell Fishing Rods

If you've got tuned in anticipating me to extol the virtues with this pole for tossing around £20 bits of plastic inside passions of LRF/HRF or whatever its they call that goal these days, then you might be some dissatisfied; but hang within my friend, kayak fishing is the brand new kid on the market… we float around on bigger more costly items of synthetic which allow you to get closer to the fish, capture more of them and drop less of those £20 bits of plastic. An Adequate Amount Of my ramblings, let start looking at the rod much more detail…

The 7 base principles are those I was contemplating – the letters after the pole design, denote the actions – M for moderate, L for light. This analysis addresses the Medium Light rod, but we think the Light variation would additionally be extremely suited to kayak fishing.

This can be a 2 piece (equal length sections), 7 base rod with 9 solitary knee SiC bands – 8 on the tip part and 1 on the butt section. The first thing you observe may be the pictures, extremely attention catching/snazzy – of no importance at all into the fish, but united states people do love a bit of bling…

Let us start during the butt associated with rod and work our way along to your tip area.

Starting at the butt, more eye candy…

It seems the component, just because the colours tend to be somewhat brilliant. Much nicer to check out versus standard fayre.

Moving to the handle, the exact distance amongst the butt and also the reel chair is brief, which can be ideal for united states kayak anglers, as it suggests its simple to hold and play seafood. More machined aluminium and short duplon type sponge grips – all extremely functional…

The reel chair is obviously a custom job produced from graphite, because it matches the conclusion on remaining portion of the blank. It seems extremely high-tec, nevertheless the seat itself is somewhat in the comfortable part, therefore don’t be prepared to clamp reels on much bigger than 4000 dimensions (or people with huge reel feet). Having said that – it looks and acts really.

Just as you're watching fore hold, is the keeper band. A point, but the one which become familiar with to love if you're a kayak or lure anglers – often its the attention to information that may make all the distinction.

Discover just one huge band from the butt area of the blank. Because this blank is perfect for rotating, that explains how big initial ring – to get the coils of mono/braid because they spill from the fixed spool reel through the cast.

Not too-much varnish in addition to whippings are very understated – i prefer that.

On towards joint between your parts, my only criticism could be the insufficient support on female joint by means of whipping bond. Nevertheless the male push-in section does look powerful (the end of the part has to be plugged for me)

The tip section features 8 bands, first thing you find, is just how small they're towards the end of the tip, that is among bigger ones…

The tip ring is neat and not over whipped excessively

Okay, in order that could be the factual little bit and pieces taken care of. What's the rod love to utilize ?

I attempted it in several various situations from rotating on the river to plugging at sea, but lets stick to the initial plan; the reason i needed to utilize the rod ended up being for kayak fishing, in order for is exactly what it must be judged against when it comes to reasons with this analysis.

I would pair this rod with a tiny fixed spool 3000 or 4000 size – I have tried it with various Shimanos and it also ended up being great; it was a lot more balanced using the Rovex Ceretec 4000 I tried it with making use of Varivas braid – to such an extent, this is the reel that is clamped to it presently, and will go every where along with it to any extent further.

Don’t genuinely believe that since this pole has the word “spin” when you look at the title, that it is going to be a floppy spinning pole (since are so many water rotating rods). This is a steely pokey carbon wand, that has a lot of backbone. Although it is ranked to cast 10-30g, it may deal with alot more. I was actually surprised at the number of power inside pole. That said, it however transmitted the tiniest of bites. On the kayak, maybe it's employed for flatfish, bream, bass and contains enough anchor for inshore pollack work with lures. The ML is certainly not a light actioned pole – ie. its not a soft rod for mullet. There was one task that we believed it would be ideal for. For some time now, I have been trying to capture a Gilthead bream kayak fishing. I recently broke my duck any way you like with the Teklon Concept 702ML. The pole performed flawlessly and there can be few much better exercises than doing struggle with a Gilthead bream.