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2. Fishing rod - Wikipedia

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   26.4-inch-long (65 cm) pike caught on an ultra-light spinning rod (5-gram or 75-grain casting weight) using a 1-inch (25 mm) spinner bait. Spinning rods are made from graphite or fiberglass with a cork or PVC foam handle, and tend to be between 5 and 8.5 feet (1.5 and 2.5 m) in length.

3. Casting (fishing) - Wikipedia

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   In angling, casting is the act of the angler throwing the bait and hook (or a lure) as well as other attached terminal tackles out over the water, typically by slinging a fishing line manipulated by a long, elastic fishing rod. The term itself may also be used for setting out a net when artisanal fishing.

4. Spey casting - Wikipedia

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   Spey casting is a casting technique used in fly fishing. Spey casting can be accomplished with either a normal length fly rod, or a rod referred to as a double-handed fly rod, often called a Spey rod. [1] Spey rods can also be used for standard overhead casting. Spey casting differentiates itself from other fly fishing techniques as it has no ...

5. Ugly Stik - Wikipedia

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   Ugly Stik is primarily known for its fishing rods. Shakespeare, originally called William Shakespeare Jr. Company, was founded by William Shakespeare Jr . in 1897 in Kalamazoo, Michigan . The William Shakespeare Jr. Company changed its name to Shakespeare in 1915, then moved its base of operations to Columbia, South Carolina in 1970.

6. Heddon (brand) - Wikipedia

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   Heddon is a brand of artificial fishing lures created by James Heddon, (originally a beekeeper) who is credited [by whom?] with the invention of the first artificial fishing lures made of wood in the late 1890s. The Heddon Company was founded in 1902 to sell the lures, originally made by hand in the Heddon family kitchen in Dowagiac, Michigan.

7. Fishing rod tapers - Wikipedia

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   Since only the very tip of the rod bends, when a fish strikes the angler has ample rod shaft and backbone to set the hook correctly. In contrast to fast tapers, the slow flex rods offer the angler advantages when fighting large fish with light fishing line. This additional flex allows the rod to absorb the force of the fish as opposed to the line.