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New Rod!!!

 Finally got round to going to try out a new rod, I have decided I need 2 purely from a convenience point of view as I am extremely lazy and on several occaisions over the last season I was thinking that I should change lines at various points in the day but on a significant number of those occasions I did not bother as the thought of changing back after 1/2 an hour just seemed too much hassle.

I will never know whether or not that cost me fish but I think having 2 rods set up will encourage me to swap more often

I absolutley love my 10ft #7 Vision Onki but am looking I think for a rod with a bit more grunt for sinking line work, the only 10ft#7 I did not test that was in my price range (anything up to around £600) when purchasing the Onki was as it happens the Vision Stillmaniac, so having confirmed they had one in stock went to Sprotfish to give it a whirl

Has taken me this long to back to testing a new rod mainly due to the fact that the wind has been a bit ridiculous over the last couple of weeks whenever I have been able to go and do not want to repeat my previous experience of trying to test in a gale

Took my Onki and a DI7 line for the test.

As well as the 10ft #7 also tried the 9'9"#7

Started with the 10' and it cast a lovely long line with minimal effort from me, heavier and a bit stiffer thn the Onki but that is sort of what I want so all good so far

Next went back to the Onki to remind myself of what it wa like (not been out of the tube since October) and it is for me a beuatiful rod to cast, slightly surprised that it put out a line almost as well as the Stillmaniac and again with very little effort.

Tried the 9'9" next and again a lovely rod to cast and very similar to the Onki for me although possibly a bit stiffer

Went round them all again and honestly there was very little in it for me (this may be because of my limitations as a caster) so now have a tricky decision to make, do I spend the extra £80'ish on the Stillmaniac 10' or do I buy another Onki, ruled out the 9'9" as too similar to the Onki to justify the extra.

Decided on the 10' Stillmaniac as I do want a rod with a bit more grunt so shelled out the money and went home a happy man - just need to find the time to get on the water to see how it actually fishes!!

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