Fiblink Surf Spinning Fishing Rod Carbon Fiber Travel Fishing Rod(11-Feet & 12-Feet & 13-Feet & 15-Feet)

More and more I find that I enjoy the budget rods more than I do my expensive rods. This rod is very light for being a 13’ surf rod. I love the thinner handles and it casts far!Update: I also bought two of the four piece 15’ rods. You cannot go wrong with these rods! I ended up selling my 13’ just because I wanted to buy the 15’ four piece for easier loading in the car and carrying since the pieces are smaller compared to the two piece rods. I love them. I use them for crab snaring and I can cast a snare out far with these! These rods would also be great for rock fishing the coast, pretty much anything a 15’ surf rod was meant to catch! I love the color, and overall appearance of this surf rod!The crab snares casted out, are usually within the boundaries of the 3-8oz weights. I’ve thrown 10+.For me the best thing about these rods, are the collapsibility aspect of them, and definitely their reliability as well. I understand some negative reviews when an item is damaged on delivery. But how can someone rate the actual product on something that has nothing to do with the company and or their product?? Send it back and get another one!!! It’s worth it! I put these surf rods through the ultimate tests and they pass each time!What doesn’t come with the rod is the red X-wrap (heat shrink tube). I added that myself. All my rods have x-wrap on the handles. Extra protection from the wear and tear of using and placing down any fishing pole.Update 12/16/23: After some use I am still very happy and satisfied with this fishing rod! Is it flawless? No. I believe it needs a stronger reel seat. I would say that the only thing to improve. I’ve been casting out crab snares and if you stay at/under the recommended lure weight, you’ll be able to launch bait out far!! However, I decided to really give it a test beyond its recommended limits. I threw out 12oz weight attached to a crab snare loaded with bait. The first few times I used more skill and finesse to cast the snares. It handled them well! Got a little to confident with what I was doing and LAUNCHED the snare… heard a tiny crack.. sure enough there was a tiny little crack on the female end of the 2 of 4 piece (from bottom up) and I had to fix that when I got home. Kept casting for at least two hours after the crack, and it did not crack any further, at all. Again, I blame myself. I tested the limits and even with those two cons, I still will give this a 5 star!

Honestly I was looking rather hard for either an Okuma, Daiwa or Penn surf rod but every shelf was bare as with a load of other gear these days. I have rods by these other brands and they have served me well. But I needed a surf’ pole now and just took a shot with this rod. I have had it a week and from the unboxing to the two fish I caught already ( 16 lb. ling cod & 5-ft. blue shark) I am completely impressed. The rod was well boxed and protected, came in a reasonable amount of time and even came in a handsome blue/black nylon sleeve. This rod is wearing one of my Daiwa saltist reels (6500) big’ spinners. Mismatch right? ..... $800+ reel ( when I bought it... more now) and a way under $100 rod. Surprisingly they mate really well. The damn thing has great action and I am bombing heavy terminal gear (w/8 oz. weight) a country mile. As far as strength.... It easily handled the shark which ran deep twice outside the reef .. with ease. I fish for shark and feel pretty good at handling a much bigger cousin with this set up. A side tip... if you catch a blue shark... eat it! The flesh is so close to swordfish... without the skin, it is hard to tell the difference. And don’t hesitate to buy this fishing pole... it is an amazing deal at the price.

I bought the 15 foot spinning rod because I had a 8000 size or so cheap Chinese spinning reel somebody gave me and I wanted to make a light surf outfit. Later I got the bright idea to tune up one of my old Penn 209 reels and use that for surf casting instead of the spinning reel. Baitcasting reels really get the most out of a big rod. I would rather have baitcasting guides on the rod than those big spinning guides but with the big guides you can use either style of reel. I grabbed bag of shrimp from the freezer, a reel that was spooled with 50lb Reaction braided, a couple of multi hook bottom rigs and a couple of 4oz sinkers and took the outfit to the lake. That is Lake Pontchartrain, which honestly is more of a small inland sea than a lake. From the lakeshore I started out with short casts and slowly worked up to about 75 yards, and the rod loaded up pretty good with an OTG cast and one 4oz sinker and bait. Pretty sure with a bit of getting used to the rod, and the reel which to be honest is better for drop fishing than casting and has no spool braking system, I can eventually get it out there to the magic 100 yard mark.One reason I wasn't really pushing it is I didn't have a shock leader tied on, because the levelwind line guide doesn't pass knots all that well. I have since removed the idler gear and the line guide, disabling the levelwind feature and reducing parasitic drag, and I will have another go with a 100lb test mono shock leader. 50lb test line is right near the limit for casting a 4oz sinker without breaking off in the cast so I wasn't really getting medieval with it. Also I forgot to take a glove, or sew a thumb protector to the reel, and I was really burning up my thumb. Lesson learned. Again. Now I can add my shock leader and go for the gold medal. The rod just feels right when it's loading up and I think it will cast nicely with an all out effort on my part and my braking thumb shielded properly.I did take away one star, for not having a casting version in the 15 foot length. Really... who uses a 15 foot rod with a spinning reel, anyway? A 15 foot rod goes with a casting reel, not a spinning reel. Is it a really big deal? The rod's action is okay for a baitcaster and the gigantic basketball hoop guides don't really hurt anything except encourage the line to slap against the rod when casting and kind of get in the way, but at a minimum it would be nice if they acknowledged that us old school casters are still out here and still alive and STILL SPENDING OUR MONEY. I will probably end up changing the guides msyelf one of these days.So yeah, pretty good rod, for the money. And I haven't broken it yet. Knock on wood, might come back and take a star or two if I break it next outing. Otherwise I might jusg get myself another one, unless I find something just as cheap and just as good, with proper baitcasting guides instead of the big hoops.

Great deal. The quality of the pole exceeded my expectations