If you want to buy a new fishing rod, it is not as easy as it seems. People often get the wrong rod when they go to the store. Usually this is because the guy in the store will try to sell them anything just to get a sale.

To get the fishing rod that is right for you is extremely important. With the choices you have today, you will be dead in the water if you don’t have any knowledge of the rods before you go to the store. Remember that it is only your own experience that will suffer if you do the wrong choice.

What you should look for first and foremost is that you get the right casting weight on your rod. This is the most important thing about a rod, and don’t let anyone tell you anything else.

It is important for two reasons. The first one is because you dont want to have a rod that is meant for heavy lures when you are only fishing with small lures this will give you extremely short distance on your casting.

It is just as bad to get a rod that is too light. The rod will be in great danger of either breaking or betting serious injury when casting with lures that are to heavy. You will also have big problems getting your fish in to shore, and the rod might even break then.

Manufacturers use a system of classification on their rods. Farthest down the ladder are the ultra light rods. As the name suggests these rods are meant for extremely light fishing.

Stepping it up, we find the light action rods, the medium action rods and the medium heavy action rods. They are all perfectly fitted to be used in their own situations.

The last category is the heavy action rods. These rods is what you can call the bad boys of fishing. Usually very stiff and hard, they are perfect to fish for the biggest species out there.