osprey daylit Daylite Messenger-Black free recycled bluesign Osprey Daylite Pack – Mountain

Although marketed as a dropshot rod, its obviously easy to rig up a light jighead too, and as my jig was firmly nestled in the retaining eye after my last session, I started off by twitching a tiny shad along the nearside of the canal in likely spots beneath a bridge, and in the shadow of overhanging trees

Nor the worst, its an overall 100% WORTH IT!!

These reels were often modified with magnetic breaking systems to enable more consistent casting and the level wind mechanisms were removed so that ones thumb could reach right across the spool to grip it on a powerful cast

I added a couple of things to mine that I thought might be helpful to others