Ibock

Sir, can you please purchase and give us a review?

But how’s it compare to a NRX

Gonna have to see if I can get a discount on that Steez rod.

I was bored one day and I was on tackle warehouse looking at stuff I’ll never buy and seen Evergreen had one that was a little over $1200. I thought to myself surely someone isn’t going to pay that but I also thought no one would ever buy a NRX and one day I was at the local tackle shop and a guy came in and bought 10 of them at one time.

You sure can, but it'll still be way out of my price range.

Trika is where it’s at!

All sales final?

Maybe if it was THE rod he used, not just one like it.

Thats what I heard also.

1.5 times more sensitive than anything on the market,,,they say.

We are counting on you.

Just who is measuring that? The marketing department?

Ibock measured it. He is the authority on all things Trika.

Nobody. There are no regulations in the fishing gear industry. Anyone can claim anything.

LOL I guess so but they NEVER say what exact brand or name the rod they compared their rods to.

That’s way too sensitive for me.

WOW!!!... And no money back guarantee... Dan

Top Brands...top brands...they had their top men working on it...top men!

Considering all the Tour guys have 20 rods on the deck and looking at price of this rod, I have one comment.

This is ENTIRELY out of hand.

Surely, it comes with a decal you can put on your Yeti cooler.

Nope. It doesn’t.

How much would it hurt to shut it in the rod box and the tip be gone?

I can’t see more than $150 for a rod.

$150 is the replacement cost for a NRX+, ask me how I know

Maybe we need Sensitivity training

I failed that class

Yeah. Cause if they are claiming 1.5 more sensitive than a NRX or Conquest, they are dreaming!

ain't no way I'm spending 1300 on a rod that's two brand new NRX's and what 4 GLX's? Nah that is crazy.

New GLX's are $550

If a rod cost more than 250 I won't buy it. Kistler when he runs one of his sales works just fine for me. Usually when a fish eats something they eat it so.....

Sensitivity training is easy........Just compare every rod to an NRX and see how well they do . LOL

Agree totally... They never say what rod theirs is "supposedly" 1.5 times more sensitive than. Maybe the Uglystick ?????

Problem with Kistler is he keeps changing suppliers so no telling what you’re going to get

I've yet to find any rod that is better than an NRX+.

They're damn nice rods, but I can't justify the cost for these when I can get a very comparable rod around $250.

Conquest!

Debatable, NRX+ is more sensitive and lighter. For bottom contact I prefer the NRX. For moving baits the Conquest MBR’s have a more parabolic action than the NRX.

Comparable in sensitivity for $250? What rod is that?

Gotta Conquest, took it back and got another NRX+. It was a nice rod but just preferred the NRX.

The Shimano Expride and poison adrena are nice rods but ain't no NRX.

Any custom rod built on a Rainshadow blank. I have had several made and would put them against the NRX+ any day. Rainshadow blanks, to me, are by far the most sensitive / light / etc. that I've had my hands on.

If you're speaking off the shelf, then it would be the Daiwa Tatula Elite AGS. These rods have the Airsensor reeel seat and AGS guides which transmit vibration so well you can feel when you bait hits bottom in some cases.

These posts are fun, you can go back and forth for days. It usually comes down to one thing: The person.

Well you won't have any that are very sensitive but that is your choice.

I agree, the rainshadow blank is very sensitive.

Could someone please recommend a custom rod builder that currently uses that rainshadow blank.. I would like to try one, thanks

I am not sure what blanks they use but the sensitivity of their rods is awesome. Judy is a pleasure to deal with. reneautackle they use to be called Powertackle but have since changed their name.

The used to be Power tackle and recently changed to Reneau Tackle to release the lure side of the business. They make great rods and can pretty much make whatever you want. Pretty sure they are locked into using their blanks though.

My guy retired a few years ago. So I now have started buying up the equipment to make my own. I sure hope to be half as good as Brian Althouse Feathercast Rods.

Let me reach out to a few guys and see who's currently selling them finished. I bet just about any custom rod builder could build one for you.

I had forgotten about the rainshadow blanks because I haven't heard them mentioned in quite a few years now. I would like to try one also.

I'm pretty partial to the Megabass Destroyer P5 rods.

I have one of those and it is sensitive.

After breaking every shimano/g-loomis rod I've bought it will take alot for me to spend more then 200 for a rod. Especially since my old carbon light is still rocking

Buy this and 50k in FFS and you too can catch fish like Kyoya.

You can get a replacement rod for less than $200 through the expedite process. I to have broke my share of IMX rods but never an NRX.

What are you doing to break so many rods?

Sounds like you need a bunch of Uglystick rods to fish with.

Are you dragging them behind your truck after closing the tailgate on them or something?

Didn’t you also say you have broken every Shimano reel you have owned. I’m seeing a pattern here and I’m calling BS!

Some people can bust a steel ball with a rubber hammer

I’ve never damaged a loomis or shimano rod that wasn’t my fault.

I’ve only had about 50 shimano reels over time but non failed, some wore out, probably from lack of maintenance on my part.

Good products in my opinion.

Wish they kept anti reverse switches on their higher end spin reels…

No kidding. I have broken exactly two Loomis rods in the last 35 yrs and BOTH of them were my fault. I broke one going into the office at work as the hydraulic door closer get the tip as I walked in. The other I broke trying to free a bait stuck on a barb wire fence.

No kidding. I have broken exactly two Loomis rods in the last 35 yrs and BOTH of them were my fault. I broke one going into the office at work as the hydraulic door closer get the tip as I walked in. The other I broke trying to free a bait stuck on a barb wire fence.
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Didn’t that guide in Galveston break one when he was trying to treat your fish like a wire man with a marlin on the line?

I am pretty tough on rods. I have only broken 3 of them. One is a car door, one in the trolling motor, one I was pond fishing and went to set the hook at slammed into a tree. I have never had one just break.

I’ve broken a few in forty years of fishing. One was dead sticking a frog fish with around 5 added pounds of grass on it. Broke at the stripper guide. Broke another in trying to save a senko on a dock piling. Top 10 inches. Brought a replacement for that rod and it broke pulling line through the guides the first 30 seconds after I mounted the reel. It was defective. That’s it. Three!

Now I have smashed numerous guides by stepping on rods while fishing.

Maybe he is just clumsy and doesn't know hot to take care of his gear.