Just about to cook dinner Matt and I’ll listen to the pod cast later. Thanks! Basically we make rods for people who are reasonable casters, can double haul, form nice loops in both directions. Ie competent and looking to improve. I don’t think anyone is going to spend 1000$ on a rod when they can’t cast, but maybe?
Anyway as far as I’m concerned anyone who buys a rod through Sexyloops has pretty much spent at least some time working on their casting and should be fine with an HT. They are “fishing” rods and have considerably more feel than many rods on the market, particularly in the lower sections. I and many others teach beginners using them. I can see no point in an instructor rod for example that can’t be used to teach a complete beginner to cast from the get-go.
I also disagree with the premise that better casters always prefer faster rods! There are plenty of excellent casters who prefer slow rods. It’s just unfortunate that a large chunk of the market can’t seem to be able to adjust their stroke to match the rod in hand (whether that be fast or slow) and because for whatever reason they buy rods on he fast/stiff side (marketing probably) they end up overlining them. Personally I think they’ve bought the wrong rod!! Maybe they should have bought a Winston, or a T&T, or even a Sexyloops rod. Best of course would be to spend some time working on simple casting arc changes.
I think a lot of people are very surprised when they pick up an HT rod to find that even when correctly AFFTA aligned it is not a poker! And if they upline intentionally or otherwise then it’s going to feel soft.
Right. Time to cook a battleship feast!
Cheers, Paul
