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As some of you may be aware I have taken a keen interest in LRF over the last couple of months. Faced with an enormous learning curve I have been hunting the internet and hammering translation programmes researching LRF and LRF Tackle.
And I am learning that many things we take as fact-just isn't so.
Now we tend to believe the we use solid tip rods for bite detection, they make it easier to detect a bite on a small lightly weighted SP sinking through the water column. But that just isn't why the japanese use solid tip rods-time after time I have asked on japanese forums, read reviews, and comments about rods-not a single mention that a solid tip is for bite detection. But what is commented on again and again- is that solid tip rods allows the fish to inhale the lure more easily-what japanese call suction bites. Some species seem to be VERY sensitive to any resistance when hitting the lure. Aji/Scad/Horse Mackerel (weighs from a few ounces to about 3lbs) being the most commonly commented on. These rods are commonly referred to as Aji rods in japan-still LRF, but a sub division of it.
Aji rods are generally those used with either very light jigheads 0.2-1.5g, or with a casting system similar to a bombarda rig up to about 5g. They are concidered slightly passive, the fish should almost hook it's self-or you are doing something wrong-resistance!!
Hollow tip rods are used mainly for Mebaru fishing - a rock/reef fish that runs again from a few ounces to a couple of pounds), in Japan Mebaru fishing is normally vertical fishing, and the bites are hard and very fast. i.e. they can mouth and reject a bait incredibably quickily. So the rods (hollow tipped) are faster actioned to allow faster hook sets, be that on jigheads/sp, jigs, Ice plugs, or even float rigs. Contact with the lure is EVERYTHING it seems with Mebaru fishing, as a second of slack line could mean a missed bite.
So which is better?? For the UK???
Neither/Both
Both rods will happily catch fish in the UK, and as the techniques and species we target expand one or other of these rods might prove to be better suited to targetting a particular species. Only time and the in put of UK anglers will tell. I would be very interested to hear if what is being said in Japan, seems to hold true in the UK. There is a whole world of techniques still out there in Japan as part of what they call LRF/Aji fishing that so far haven't been mentioned (or even tried), and it is going to be interesting matching those techniques to UK species.
And I am learning that many things we take as fact-just isn't so.
Now we tend to believe the we use solid tip rods for bite detection, they make it easier to detect a bite on a small lightly weighted SP sinking through the water column. But that just isn't why the japanese use solid tip rods-time after time I have asked on japanese forums, read reviews, and comments about rods-not a single mention that a solid tip is for bite detection. But what is commented on again and again- is that solid tip rods allows the fish to inhale the lure more easily-what japanese call suction bites. Some species seem to be VERY sensitive to any resistance when hitting the lure. Aji/Scad/Horse Mackerel (weighs from a few ounces to about 3lbs) being the most commonly commented on. These rods are commonly referred to as Aji rods in japan-still LRF, but a sub division of it.
Aji rods are generally those used with either very light jigheads 0.2-1.5g, or with a casting system similar to a bombarda rig up to about 5g. They are concidered slightly passive, the fish should almost hook it's self-or you are doing something wrong-resistance!!
Hollow tip rods are used mainly for Mebaru fishing - a rock/reef fish that runs again from a few ounces to a couple of pounds), in Japan Mebaru fishing is normally vertical fishing, and the bites are hard and very fast. i.e. they can mouth and reject a bait incredibably quickily. So the rods (hollow tipped) are faster actioned to allow faster hook sets, be that on jigheads/sp, jigs, Ice plugs, or even float rigs. Contact with the lure is EVERYTHING it seems with Mebaru fishing, as a second of slack line could mean a missed bite.
So which is better?? For the UK???
Neither/Both
Both rods will happily catch fish in the UK, and as the techniques and species we target expand one or other of these rods might prove to be better suited to targetting a particular species. Only time and the in put of UK anglers will tell. I would be very interested to hear if what is being said in Japan, seems to hold true in the UK. There is a whole world of techniques still out there in Japan as part of what they call LRF/Aji fishing that so far haven't been mentioned (or even tried), and it is going to be interesting matching those techniques to UK species.