In other news, with some coaching from customer service, Noppin just ordered my rod!!

I'll post a review and maybe a few photos if it arrives safely from the tackle shop to Noppin and finally to me.

Thanks again Ron for the education on brokers and thanks to Takeru for rekindling my interest in the Taper & Shape offerings!!

I'm surprised my post went in an unexpected direction.
I look forward to learning through review by Nick how the rod will work in your waters.

Takeru, Nick will be able to fish for trout in freestone creeks not too different from your home waters.
He'll also have native perch and sunfish species.

In the south, we have limestone escarpments with warmwater spring creeks where endemic river bass occupy the same fast water trout do in coldwater.
We call these "Texas Brook Trout" and can use the light rods anywhere we can wade.


We have other native sunfish, and TX hill country has a native cichlid.


The difference, in wider, slower water where we fish from a kayak, the light rods don't have the power to keep a good size largemouth bass from going under the boat, which could destroy the rod. Here, we need a little more power, though we may still need rods light enough to fish the same light lures. In the rivers, we're mostly imitating nickel-size crayfish and small cyprinid minnows.