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.
Buying a Rod Reel Combo Set in Dar es Salaam
361 Degrees Adventure keeps the rod reel combo set at our showroom in Upanga, Dar es Salaam, with delivery countrywide across Tanzania. Come and handle it before you buy, or order online and collect.
Every rod reel combo set is checked in store before it leaves us, and our staff use the same kit in the field, so you get an honest answer on fit and sizing rather than a sales pitch.
Not sure which rod reel combo set suits you? Call or message the showroom and we will talk you through the options that are actually in stock in Tanzania.
Browse more Travel & Telescopic in Tanzania, or see the full 361 Degrees range. For general background on fishing rods, see this overview on Wikipedia.
1.6 m Mini Portable Rod & Reel Combo - Carbon, Packs to 75 cm