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  • Big Fish Taming: Selecting Heavy-Duty Blanks for Pike & Lakers

    Big Fish Taming: Selecting Heavy-Duty Blanks for Pike & Lakers

    · Goofish®Rod-More Than Fishing

    Pike and lakers through the ice break light blanks. Tested 32, 34 and 36 inch ice rod blanks, CCS numbers, lift tests plus build tips.

  • Solid vs Tubular Blanks: Strength or Sensitivity?

    Solid vs Tubular Blanks: Strength or Sensitivity?

    · Goofish®Rod-More Than Fishing

    Not a line popping. Not a hook pulling. The sound is a dry, sharp crack, and it happens about eighteen inches below your tip top,...

  • Rod Blank Spine: 90% of Builders Align It Wrong

    Rod Blank Spine: 90% of Builders Align It Wrong

    · Goofish®Rod-More Than Fishing

    Years ago I built my first rod from a bare blank. I did everything the way the instructions said. I found the spine by resting...

  • Rod Blank Action Decoded: Fast vs Slow in 0.3 Seconds

    Rod Blank Action Decoded: Fast vs Slow in 0.3 Seconds

    · Goofish®Rod-More Than Fishing

    Here is the story that made me obsessed with this subject, and it cost me about four hundred dollars and one very confusing season. 😅

  • Choosing Your First Fishing Rod Blank: The Ultimate Guide & Checklist

    Choosing Your First Fishing Rod Blank: The Ultimate Guide & Checklist

    · Goofish®Rod-More Than Fishing

    There is a rod blank in my closet that has been leaning against the wall for two years, and I have never once built it.

  • Carbon Tonnage Guide for fishing rod Choosing 24T, 30T or 40T

    Carbon Tonnage Guide for fishing rod: Choosing 24T, 30T or 40T

    · Goofish®Rod-More Than Fishing

    The rod broke with a sound like a celery stalk. Not a bang. Not a crack. A soft, wet fwhump that I felt in my...

  • Building the Ultimate Panfish-Sensitive Ice Rod Blank

    Building the Ultimate Panfish-Sensitive Ice Rod Blank

    · Goofish®Rod-More Than Fishing

    It was fourteen below zero on a small flowage in northern Wisconsin, and my buddy Dave was beating me so badly I wanted to break...

  • High Modulus Carbon Scam: Is 46-Ton Better Than 30-Ton?

    High Modulus Carbon Scam: Is 46-Ton Better Than 30-Ton?

    · Goofish®Rod-More Than Fishing

    I snapped a $340 blank with my car door. Not slammed it. Closed it. 😤 It was a 46-ton blank I had been babying for...

  • The Lightweight Puzzle: Balancing Fishing Rod Blank Weight and Durability

    The Lightweight Puzzle: Balancing Fishing Rod Blank Weight and Durability

    · Goofish®Rod-More Than Fishing

    There is a peculiar kind of torture in the world of angling. You have spent months saving up, handpicked the most beautiful reel money can...

  • Fishing Rod Blank Tech Trends 2024 Innovations to Watch

    Fishing Rod Blank Tech Trends: 2024 Innovations to Watch

    · Goofish®Rod-More Than Fishing

    Hey there, fellow fishing fanatics! 👋 If you’re anything like me, you’re obsessedwith finding the next game - changing fishing rod blank. I mean, who...

  • Heavy Cover Fishing Tough Fishing Rod Blanks for Impact Resistance

    Heavy Cover Fishing: Tough Fishing Rod Blanks for Impact Resistance

    · Goofish®Rod-More Than Fishing

    When it comes to fishing in heavy cover, every ounce of durability counts. I learned this lesson the hard way last summer during a grueling...

  • Ice Fishing Rod Guide Ring Binding: Scientific Formula for Spacing Calculation

    Ice Fishing Rod Guide Ring Binding: Scientific Formula for Spacing Calculation

    · Goofish®Rod-More Than Fishing

    The winter winds bite, the ice creaks beneath your boots, and the only sound is the faint tug-tugof a fish on the line. There is a...