About this product
A 1.6 m rod is a compromise, and a sensible one. It is short enough to pack down to 75 cm and live in a bag, and long enough to cast a light lure a useful distance and control a fish once hooked. At around 200 grams with a carbon blank, it is also light enough to fish all afternoon.
The 4-15 g lure rating tells you what it is for: small spoons, spinners, plugs, and light jig heads with small soft plastics. That is light-lure fishing – the way most people fish a creek mouth, a jetty, a river or a dam. On the coast it will handle small queenfish, barracuda, mullet and snapper close in; inland it is a good rod for tigerfish and bass.
It comes as a combo with a matched reel, so the outfit works out of the box. Fast action gives you a responsive tip for detecting bites and setting hooks, which is what you want with small lures and light line.
What it is not is a distance rod. If you want to cast off a beach or fish the rocks, the length works against you and a 1.8 m or 2.1 m rod is the better buy – we stock telescopic kits in both.
1.6 m Mini Portable Rod & Reel Combo - Carbon, Packs to 75 cm