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Ultra-light spinning and casting rods are generally shorter (4 to 8 feet or 1.2 to 2.4 meters is common) lighter, and more limber than normal rods. Tip actions vary from slow to fast, depending upon intended use. These rods usually carry 1 to 6 pounds-force (0.5 to 2.5 kgf; 4.5 to 26.5 N) test fishing line.
Jigging gears are often involved with the luring of slow moving fish, most commonly during spawning periods. For successful jigging, the jigger needs to use a sensitive rod that is good for feeling a strike, and needs to stay in contact with the lure and get it to where the fish are. Most fish caught by jigs are on or near the bottom.
Parts of a spinning reel: 1: Pick up or bail 2: Reel seat 3: Reel foot 4: Handle 5: Support arm 6: Anti-reverse lever 7: Skirted spool 8: Fishing line 9: Drag adjustment knob A fishing reel is a hand- cranked reel used in angling to wind and stow fishing line , [ 1 ] typically mounted onto a fishing rod , but may also be used on compound bows ...
Daiwa House, a Japanese homebuilder; The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, a United Kingdom-based charity; Daiwa Adrian Prize, awarded by the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation; Globeride (formerly Daiwa Seiko Corporation), a Japanese producer of fishing and outdoor equipment; Daiwa Major, a Thoroughbred racehorse
A connecting rod, also called a 'con rod', [1] [2] [3] is the part of a piston engine which connects the piston to the crankshaft. Together with the crank, the connecting rod converts the reciprocating motion of the piston into the rotation of the crankshaft. [4] The connecting rod is required to transmit the compressive and tensile forces from ...
Daiwa House Industry Co., Ltd. (大和ハウス工業株式会社, Daiwa Hausu Kōgyō Kabushiki-gaisha) is Japan's largest homebuilder, [6] specializing in prefabricated houses. The company is also engaged in the construction of factories, shopping centers , health care facilities , the management and operation of resort hotels, golf courses ...
[6] [7] The use of counting rods must predate it; Sunzi (c. 544 to c. 496 BCE), a military strategist at the end of Spring and Autumn period of 771 BCE to 5th century BCE, mentions their use to make calculations to win wars before going into the battle; [8] Laozi (died 531 BCE), writing in the Warring States period, said "a good calculator ...
8 time, [7] and the term was used for a post-play entertainment featuring dance in early modern England, but which 'probably employed a great variety of dances, solo (suitable for jigs), paired, round, country or courtly'; [8] in Playford's Dancing Master (1651) 'the dance game in "Kemps Jegg" is a typical scenario from a dramatic jig and it is ...