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Post by angellus72 on Jul 6, 2015 14:05:35 GMT
Being a touch bored at work, decided to look at some tips for tench, and they mention Avon rods. I've seen these talked about over the years, but not paid much notice.
My query is, What is an Avon rod? Float, feeder, something different?
Cheers in advance. Jon
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Post by Sam Vimes on Jul 6, 2015 16:41:20 GMT
An Avon rod is a particular type of multi-purpose rod. Whilst they do vary, my own expectation of an Avon rod would be a through action with a test curve around the 1.25lb mark. They are often thought of as an allround rod, capable of being used for multiple tasks. However, I find that they make for a pretty poor compromise float rod. Modern incarnations are often supplied with a quiver tip section as well as a genuine Avon top section. I'll happily press my Avon rods into service for lighter small river barbelling and floater fishing for smaller carp. The main use is legering on still or running water for the smaller species such as perch, chub, bream and tench. The term Avon rod seems to be going out of fashion a little. I'd expect to see such a rod labelled as a light specialist these days. The difference is that the modern light specialist rods may not have the genuine Avon through action.
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Post by BOF on Jul 11, 2015 19:51:49 GMT
Hmm not so sure I would completely agree with you on this one Sam, as to my mind the original Avon rods were made with a built cane top section, and a whole cane butt section. So the tip section, which had a 1 1/4lb test curve, always had a more progressive bend than the much stiffer butt. That ment, to me at least, that I could fish rivers like the Avon, Stour, or Trent, with a powerful flow, which necessitated big floats, and loads of shot, something that a "normal" match float rod, which had only an 18" built cane tip section, and 10 1/2ft of stiff whole cane butt, couldnt cope with. Later on we got 'glass rods, then Carbon, which due to the nature of their make up blurred the "rules" a lot, especially when we started legering with the same rods for Chub, Tench, and Barbel. But the modern Avon rod rearly took off thanks hugely to the TV appearances of John Wilson and his twin tip Avon rod. BOF
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