Quick question; what is one thing anglers need to catch fish with, can bring it with them anywhere they go, are extremely selective about it, and different models are made for certain techniques?  If you answered their fishing rods, you are right.  Anglers over the years have gone from having a limited selection of fishing rods to fishing rods made for certain techniques, or even quality custom built rods.  These high quality rods are built from “state of the art” materials such as High Modulus/High Strain rate fiber (54 million) blanks and provide incredible sensitivity and strength.  Not only are custom built rods sensitive, but they are well balanced, light, and built with high quality components.

Every year ICAST, the fishing tackle industry’s largest tradeshow in the world, show cases the news products available to anglers.  Often, products will be revised versions of original lures or products.  This year there seems to be more innovative, news products for companies just starting out with new products than ever before in the Showcase.

For tournament anglers, those words  bag-em up means to put their fish in the weigh-in bag and bring them to the scales.  Other anglers may Bag-em up to see how much that trophy fish weighs.  No matter what, the conservation minded angler has several choices when handling fish to reduce stress or neglect that could lead to injury or mortality.  How an angler handles fish will decide what condition fish will be in after being released.