It is a beautiful rod
Received my Fine Tail FSX-462 UL stream trout rod. The rod weighs 64 grams....8 guides...Fuji stainless frames with Fuji Sic-s inserts. Wooden reel seat...wooden trim rings....beautiful rod. Action is fast...and I do mean fast...of course it is a Major Craft which is known for fast actions. While I bought this rod to fish on the river casting micro spoons of 1-2 grams, it occurred to me this rod can do double duty and will work out if I want to switch to a Trout Magnet. This is a thin rod...6mm at the butt...but I am sure it can handle up to 20 inch trout with no problems. Have no idea when I will get to check this rod out. All my trout spots are blowed out. For those looking for a trout stream rod I highly recommend the Fine Tail FSX series. It's no Rayz Spectra but then again it is 300 bucks less than the TenRyu.
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It is a beautiful rod
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How would it work for bass?
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Congrats, Randy, and it is a beautiful looking piece of craftsmanship. Can’t wait to get the first report!
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Wellyou would get a faster than light hook set with this rod.LOL. I think it would work out OK. I have to keep in mind that as best I can tell from the translations these rods are designed to impart your will to the lure you are using and make supper accurate casts. I think it would handle bass just fine.
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Thanks Bob. This is always bad time of year for me. Either the weather or too much water from flooding keeps me from fishing.
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I think youre right. I will test the two FSX rods out in a finesse situation and report back. I was thinking this rod would work great on a visit to the French Broad with all the smallmouth in there with the trout.
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I know it's gonna take some times before you can give us more feedback on the Fine Tail, Randy and it is a beautiful rod. I hate to bring back more gear discussions but now that you mentioned at one point you slowly getting into "shorter" rod I'd thought I bring this up and see if anyone ever heard of this brand, Xesta black star series of rod from oversea. I too love to get next UL rod under 5 feet, but rather stay away from the likes of Area or stream trout rod for now for its intended use is for multispecy.
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