Yep that's your standard snakehead. Good clean fun.

They are middle of the pack in terms of both sensitivity and aesthetics. How's that?

Call me when they use better guides and better blanks. Oh and when they quit letting Stevie wonder design them.

Wish I had more hands to give them more thumbs down.

Based on the tt icast report, it appears 13 fishing is using non "k"style casting torzites on their new archangel rod. Does anyone know if/when these will be available? I can't find them for sale anywhere and fuji site doesn't mention anything but "K" style. http://tackletour.com/reviewicast1413fish...

I'd like to put that spool, drag star, and handle on a concept a

One could easily take this as a sign that new shimano/Loomis rods will be of lesser quality... I mean... when every company with a competing product has a 3,5,10 year or lifetime warranty, and one company has a 1 year warranty... I stay away from the product with 1 year warranty. Not because I thin...

Shimano listened to this forum and brought back full cork grips. Easily the cleanest build of any rod released this year. If the k2 looked like the new crucial id buy 2-3. But the burl wood and 3 diff materials just appears cheap and tacky. Too many joints in the handle construction.

Price mainly. The more you are willing to spend the more enthusiastic you are I'd say.

There are other factors too though. Obscure or rare items also qualify regardless of price because it also takes a high level of enthusiasm to seek out a rare color of a hardbait or something along those lines.

64 is on the slower end of fast correct?? I am thinking about building an inshore rod out of one and wanted something light and strong but a little slower than say a loomis 3 power...

tywithay wrote:Nothing better than a useless foregrip an inch and a half above the locking nut...blah.

Yeah swing and a miss on those grips.

http://asavacustom.com/en/phenix-k2-tx- ... fx661-2-2/

^ would be a much more tasteful grip

At least blanks are still available to build on.

fishingandfords wrote:Acually the dark side is daiwa but we understand what you meant. I have the same spool and it's pretty cool

I always interpreted it as enthusiast level tackle regardless of make

Easily the best rod builder

Yeah they misspelled zeta and realized it before releasing them

Daiwa t3, hood and tws on that reel must have been engineered by Stevie wonder.

There is loomis and then there is everyone else. Beliee dat.

tywithay wrote:I don't like how thin that handle is. Reminds me of the new IMX..ugh.

Why not? Just the look? Seems like it would make the rod more sensitive with less material to dampen vibration