New fibreglass tenkara rod for small streams

[Damo]

Hi everyone,

Here is a link to a new hybrid fibreglass/carbon tenkara rod that is due to be released this year. It has a zoom function and a soft action.

Looks interesting to those of us who fish small, over grown streams:

Teton Tenkara: Introducing the New DRAGONtail Hybrid-Composite tenkara rod: the marriage of glass and carbon!

Cheers,

Damian F

 

[johan851]

Interesting.

I'm a little skeptical, to be honest. Graphite lends itself very well to tenkara rods in my mind - it keeps very long rods relatively light and provides more sensitivity when high sticking. They suggest the fiberglass helps with a "slow, rich casting stroke" but tenkara casting (for myself at any rate) is more dapping and short single casts.

Feels a little bit like an attempt to combine two popular things (tenkara+glass!) than something that'll really make a tenkara rod better. I'll keep being overly cynical and just call it right now - glass euro nymphing rods are next!

 

[Damo]

Hi everyone,

There´s now more info up on their website. Looks interesting:

FoxFIRE zx280 Zoom Fiberglass-Hybrid Tenkara Rod — DRAGONtail Tenkara

Cheers,

Damian F

 

[rsagebrush]

Looks interesting and it's short enough that using fiberglass should not be a problem and the tip sections are graphite, this has been done before with western fly rods (pezon) and perhaps some others (skip morris) if I remember correctly. Sounds like a good small stream rod.

 

[johan851]

Looks interesting and it's short enough that using fiberglass should not be a problem and the tip sections are graphite, this has been done before with western fly rods (pezon) and perhaps some others (skip morris) if I remember correctly. Sounds like a good small stream rod.

I probably glossed over the 280cm length in my first post. Agree, fiberglass seems much more reasonable at 280cm than, say, 360cm.