Saltiga Ballistic

Who needs distance-robbing guides? These Power Slim™ HVF Graphite rods replace the traditional surf rod guide system with Daiwa's innovative "Hyper-Dry" Interline design for better casting, hook setting and fish fighting performance.



Adjustable balance weight Fine tuning for your particular balance preferences. Included with finished rods and blanks.



Special guide inlet lets line flow efficiently through the hollow rod blank. Snag-free 360° tip.

Saltiga® Ballistic Interline Surf Rods Feature:
Power Slim HVF™ Graphite blank construction
Hyper-Dry inner coating
V-Flex™ Ferrule System
Daiwa original entrance and tip-top guides with SiC ring
Genuine Fuji® reel seat
Adjustable balance weight
Limited Lifetime Warranty

Fishing rods - 10 Tips To Choose Right

Fishing rods may be not look become so complicated or difficult to buy to unaccustomed. However, get it wrong could be one expensive mistake.

Know what you need to know so that you can choose fishing rod right.

1. Determine what you will become angling for. If this rod is being your major rod, you may know that you will become fishing for trout or salmon, or that it may be have to be multipurpose. It may be your first fishing rod, and you do not really know what you will become angling for. You may want a rod to confine car so that you always prepared for go fishing.

2. How many can you use your fishing rod? If this holiday a rod, it may just serves to two more weeks a year, or alternatively, it can be used several times a week, weekly.

3. Knowing where you will fish could make one difference too. If you is will fish at sea, your fishing rod conditions no would be similar compared by fishing in a lake.

4. Your rod size would be vital, because you have to be able to handle it. If this too long or too short, when you will not feel comfortable with it, thus it would not be familiarise, mean that it a money wastage.

5. You may like lightweight a rod if you are to stand in a river all day, or you may want firmer a rod his artificial if you are to stay by a lake for one few hours.

6. Comfort would be vital, and how the fishing rod fit your hand and how it feel is important. Even if it a implicit agreement, you will not use it if this not comfortable to use.

7. You might already have one brand preference, perhaps based on your live fishing equipment, or those brands that your friends and anglers people use. Otherwise, why not try as numerous rods and rail as you can, so that you can doing one better decision?

8. Make sure your fishing rod choose is easy used. You probably good put it together in a hot shop, but what about when your hand is cold and wet, after a long day is spent fishing? Do honest fishing rod to maintain? Do it enters his own case? Do it split into parts for storage?

9. You may need to allocate for one new reel, or line too. May be this fishing rod is to a different kind fishing, or you use one different brands for the first time .

10. You would actually be spoilt for choice, when it aware buy one angle new. You may be want to buy on-line, and save most money. However, you will not be able try rod, and would not be have tried whoever alternatives whether. You may want to access a specific fishing shop, and have the inside track their shares and experience. You would be able try many rods, and see are those superlative a for you.

Now you know what find, not right time you buy a fishing rod new?

History of Fishing Rods

In the last few decades fishing rods have undergone a transformation from the heavy beasts they once were to light finesse rods we now take for granted. While heavy rods still have their place most anglers are switching to light graphite models.

The earliest fishing rods can be dated back to ancient Egypt, China, Greece, Rome and medieval England (they were called angles which is where we get the word angling and angler). The first accepted pictures of angling with a rod date back to 2000 BC from Egypt. These early fishing rods were made of wood, bone or stone. The simplest rods were made out of a tree branch.

By about 800 BC fishing with a rod, line and hook was a common practice and is well recorded. The rods were made of different types of wood that was tied or bound together. The line was made from horsehair or finely woven flax. There is even evidence that a form of lead sinker was used at around this time. This is also around the time that fly fishing was developed after anglers learned that certain fish would eat flies off the surface of the water.

Throughout the years fishing rods changed very little until the 17th century when a wire loop was added to the tip allowing the line to be let out and back in very easily. By the end of the 18th century rods with guides along the length of the rod were common and this lead to the invention of the fishing reel.

In the 20th century rods underwent their most important transformation when the commonly used bamboo was replaced by fiberglass and, the lighter, carbon fiber.