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Surf fishing rod

Surf Fishing Rod are different because you need to cast your bait some 100 meters or so in order to get beyond the breaking surf.

So you need longer fishing rods (10 to 12 feet long at least and up to 20 feet ) and an appropriate line.

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"Sea fish & how to catch them"
by Lord, William Barry, 1863

Rod.

For general use, a strong, four-jointed, bamboo
rod
, from seventeen to eighteen feet long, will be
found the most useful.

It should have two tops, of different degrees of flexibility, of lance-wood and strong splib cane, upright rings of large size, brazed,
winch fittings, and a wooden ball at the end of the
butt, like a salmon rod.

I use a small additional butt of about eighteen inches long, which, by being put on instead of the ordinary butt, gives the advantage of a
shorter rod without endangering the end of the third joint, by usin'g it exposed or destroying the balance.


A partition bag, of stout jean, with three sets of
strong wide strings, should be provided. For this or
any other rod the reader may require, I would
strongly recommend his paying a visit to some fishing-
tackle maker of standing and repute, and never to be
induced to purchase any of the cheap trash but too
often sold to the inexperienced.

 

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