Fishing Victoria Forum

I can definitely vouch the Daiwa Aird-X 2-4kg, 7'2 - I picked up this rod for my partner as a universal rod for when we're chasing calamari, salmon, trevally, etc. The rod is quite light, has the great Daiwa reel seats and works beautifully when using plastics, micro-jigs, jigs, etc. Can definitely ...

I believe the ugly stick and the silstar are glass rods. They're bulky and heavy, but also hard to break.
The Aird is a graphite rod I believe. Lighter, faster action, but can break easily if you are not careful.

For bait fishing, probably won't matter. But for flicking lures, the Aird is better.

Had at blast using that 2-4kg 7'2 Aird rod this-morning, landed 20 bay trout flicking plastics from 2.5" grubs to ul 2.0" 1/16 1o.
Worked like a charm

Yea that's very true, i just want to have a kind of universal rod for a beginner like me to learn fishing with. In that case i suppose going with a graphite rod is a more sensible choice (i would do some soft plastic sometimes). I think the previous shimano viper rod is also a graphite rod so i gue...