Ever wondered why some rods bend to the butt and others feel like broom handles with a reel seat? That’s the rod action, not some jargon, or marketing, but the actual way the carbon responds under ...

A day redfishing Florida's Space Coast revealed how modern fiberglass rods load quickly, cast short and accurately, and still handle real-world distance. Recently, I was fishing for reds in Mosquito ...

During normal combustion, with the rod at top dead center, the load from the combustion process causes a compressive force on the rod and a torsional vibration in the plane of the curved arrow.