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Buyer's Guide
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Shopping for a Fishing Rod (continued)
- By Pescador
What is your price range?
Aha! This is the big question. And again I must speak generally.
I like to take a range of $50-100. Generally a rod that is intended
to be sold at a price less than $50 is going to be mediocre to
sad in quality, be it performance or components use to build
it. Inside that $50-100 price range is usually where you will
see the biggest and fastest changes in rod performance and quality.
When you start looking for rods worth over $100 then it becomes
very hard to match the increase in quality and performance to
the rise in price. It seems as though the price then rises EXPONENTIALLY
with the smallest increases in quality and performance. Let’s
take the G Loomis Mag-Bass Rods for example. In line from least
to best, they have the GL2, GL3, IMX and the GLX. A GL2 costs
$140. At $50 more the GL3 of the same class will be lighter and
a little more sensitive. At $45 more than the GL3, an IMX moves
up to lighter, better guides (again, lighter and more sensitive).
And at $100 more (!!!) than the IMX the GLX will be fractions
of an ounce lighter, and more sensitive. WOW!
In conclusion…
Like I said, and kept on saying, I kept things very general because
of all the inconsistencies of different companies and how they
rate their products. I wrote this article more as a tool for the
consumer to use while doing their own NECESSARY research in narrowing
down the possibilities for their next rod. But YOU as the consumer
must make the final decision on whether the rod you are buying
will be the best choice for the type of fishing you plan on using
it for.
If you have any questions about shopping
for a rod that you just can't figure out, please feel free to
send me a private message in the forum
and I will do my best to help you out. Don't worry, I won't give
you the run-around either. If I don't know the answer to your
question, I will either direct you towards someone that I think
can answer the question better, or I will just flat out tell you
that I DON'T KNOW. hehehe.
GOOD LUCK SHOPPING!
Pescador
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