Okay, guys
I've got a lot of
Pretty strange rods and reels here.
We've been doing a lot of this micro fishing stuff with these little tiny
funny-looking rods
Today we're going to talk about if these are toys or if these are tools
how well do they actually work?
and should you spend your hard-earned money on something like this
these days our time is precious to us and
Wasting our time is oftentimes wasting our money.
So should you waste your time with micro rods?
stay tuned to find out
First up you guys have seen this before
the Emmrod now. This is a knockoff M rod from China
I got for around 35 bucks
Took about a week to ship to me
And it doesn't come with the reel the reel is my own this is a
This is an Ocean City 350. It's a vintage reel it actually doesn't have any anti reverse
It only has you know, it's really weird. Okay
Anyways, it didn't work very well with this rod
This rod is actually pretty difficult to work because there's no you know, there's no actual rod on here
How do you work your lures? How do you work your bait? How do you set the hook?
No, you don't spring it out like that. I tried it didn't work very well
now I tried using this while shore fishing and
I would much rather use a regular rod. It was very difficult. Very frustrating
Now when you saw me using this on the M rod episode it looked like I was catching a lot of fish really fast
But what you didn't see was all the cuts that we had to make because it was so frustrating to use
It's a novelty rod
Novelty for fun. That's about it.
If anyone out there owns an Emmrod and loves it
explain to me how you use it effectively because it didn't work very well for me
next one
You--I know you guys have all seen this one
the little pen rod
Really really portable right? really portable,
but let me tell you guys about something
This is how you set it up.
You unscrew this
Put this back in and then screw it back in just like the standard rod
Take a look at this.
I mean this was what 15 bucks on Amazon
This is plastic.
The knobs are plastic
Even maybe the bolt is plastic too- no it's metal.
This is plastic
the drag Center right here
Now let me tell you guys something that you might not know
You can't even cast this thing. It's really hard to even cast this thing because when you cast it this wheel
The-- when you cast it the handle will spin around like crazy.
That's just how the rod works. That's how the reel works
In my opinion : toy
does not work very well
Now these can't all just be toys right? some have gotta work, right
if-- they don't just make it just for novelty, right?
Let's take a look at this one
This one I ordered from a China company as well
for very cheap, I think like five bucks
Okay,
I mean you can look at the guides, plastic, cheap
But I think this will be pretty effective at the creek
At least has got some length to it, you know, this emmrod has no length to it. It's very unsensitive
This one
Works pretty well. I haven't showed you guys on camera, but this one works pretty well, and it's just as portable as the M rod
Look how short this handle is
Tiny, this thing is almost size of my hand,
but you can put whatever reel you want on here
I think what you should put on here is a small little light-- a light little reel right here
This was a nice little cheap one that I think will-- it works pretty well
much better than the other ones these two are definitely
Novelty. Okay this one?
It's okay
Now, this is my favorite one.
That I have not shown anybody yet
straight from China
The instructions are all in China [Erin] In China?
The instructions are all in Chinese
This one
This one,
okay, so first of all, it collapses like this and then
Clicks on like that
The way you release the line is you push this little trigger right here and this is how you hold the rod
Like this
you push the trigger
That let's line out. Okay
And it extends to probably three feet, four feet
It's a left-handed rod so you ca-- this is how you cast
you put your finger down on the trigger
Bring it above your head
*wheep*
and then when you press it again, it stops the line from coming out any more.
So this has a lot of control
Whoo, this is a fun one and I have not whoo dang. This thing casts far
I have not tested this on fish yet, but I
Use this to tease my dog right here
Kira will run around trying to eat this thing and I get to practice my casting and retrieving speeds
this thing's nice because I can actually use this and the rod is actually long enough for me to feel the fish and set the
hook
Again, I wouldn't target mega fish with this because this is not a great material
You can always tell that these rods
if they're cheap or not by the guides here if they're plastic or not what the material is made of how the
How each segment is connected together and this is definitely better than than this one at least the segments. I
think this rod was about
$35 online
Again it's a pretty portable rod
That I actually cannot wait to use on the field
And it collapses really easily
and then you push this button right here
it's in half and then you store it away
There we go and it's stored away
So that's my quick little review of the of my collection right now
You've got to be careful with the micro rods that you choose to buy
I found that it doesn't really
price of the rod does not necessarily equate to the quality of the rod
Because something like this cost me
this this was pretty expensive actually compared to this
But I would much rather use this one
my suggestion for you is to buy multiple different ones and
field-test them all
It's kind of hard to tell by just picture a lot of times
I like to feel out to see how I like it, but when that's not available for me to feel it out
I just order a couple of them and I see which one I like best
But this one is by far the worst. This is by far the worst. It's like I might as well be using the bamboo
Skewer at this point. It's probably one step above the bamboo. Skewer. Anyways, I'm curious to hear from you guys
Which one of these rods do you have yourself?
Which one of these rods would you like to try for yourself?
Which let us know in the comments below which one you want to see us use next in an episode?
We were thinking about doing a vs
Episode where we compare something like this versus something like this and we have a fish off. What do you think? Let us know?
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