The basics of making a rod from vegetables seems so, well, wrong that it's sort of easy to forget that I already have several "vegetable" rods - a Rudge, and several Sharpes, to be exact - the split cane ones, split cane only being a sort of superstiff very long grass, after all. Yet they don't seem wrong at all...
Would have to argue that one i'm afraid
, Split cane is made from a grass , yes, but the grass grows very tall 10ft plus and spend its life bending in the wind, so nature designed it to be flexible like a fishing rod,(if it was super stiff it would snap) fundamentally the bamboo has long stiff fibres on the outside for power, an enamel coating for protection and a soft shock absorbing core.(funny how much it sounds like any other composite material)
A carrot on the other hand lives in the ground and is about 8" long, spot the difference.
The justcast rods are Crap, both in build quality and the design of the action, if they had taken the time to come up with a modern style quick light rod and then get them built at least half decent then they might stand a chance of getting somewhere, but the action are reminiscient of the very first carbon rods, before people knew how to make the stuff work, as the material is basically a mix of mushed carrot fibres and carbon you would expect people with a degree of nouse as regards the modulus of the material would be able to produce a blank that took this into consideration
Its a pity because i thought the idea would be pretty good when i first saw it, unfortunatley having had the chance to play with one i was bitterly dissapointed. Slow, dull, heavy and built by a 4 year old
I think the person behind it came up with a great idea, a potentially great product, some great marketing but failed to remember he was supposed to be designing a fishing rod
Sandy
