Marc Fauvet wrote:

as for the net, for once , you are absolutely correct. fishing without one is irresponsible.

it seems we tend to agree on something.i'm confident it wont happen too often again. it is not acceptable even on a new board.

What's going on there; do all rods do this or is this a feature of the unidirectional layup of the Epic blank? hi Andrew, i'm pretty sure this would happen with any rod (that can handle being bent this way) but since most rod's can't, we never see this awesome feature ! :D fwiw, i believe Peter's &...

still keep my 20 years olde glass rod, very heavy and undestructable /almost/.