As a seller of Japanese fishing products, we often feel difficulty to find lure rod for Vietnamese field, because 90% of rods for Black Bass is 1 piece in Japan.
Of course these 1 pieces is not fit for fishing with motor bike. For most of countries it is not a matter because anglers use a car for fishing.
But gradually 2 pieces rods are increasing among Japanese makers. Especially SHIMANO has started to spread the product line-up of 2 pieces widely.
New reasonable series ZODIAS has 30 kinds of 2 pieces. And in higher class POISON ADRENA add new 6 models of 2 pieces.
“It is said that 2 pieces is worse on action than 1 piece. But now with using the different material for 1st blank and 2nd blank, we can succeed to produce 2 pieces better than 1 pieces on some aspects.” The product developer said like this.
For example, on POISON ADRENA model 172H (1 piece) is 127g, but 172H-2 (2 pieces) is 122g.
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