steelebob
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fry
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I'm looking to buy a Okuma IM8 rod.
The price seems too good to be true.
Overall, how good is the QUALITY on ANY of their rods?
Any experience specifically with their IM8, does it have the backbone you'd expect?
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ABUfreak
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dual red striper
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quality is pretty much below par. the graphite they use is really thin and from what i've seen, tends to break right above the ferrules.
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if we aren't supposed to eat fish, why are they made out of meat?
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Washougal
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chum
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Loc: Milwaukie, OR
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Graphite type is never as important as the knowledge to use it right. It doesn't make a rod more sensitive, hardy, light, etc. if the right mix of materials in it's construction isn't used. Also there is no law or regulation that makes a rod company disclose what the rod is really made of, they can say just about anything if they add a few slivers of a material in the blank someplace. They can just say later it's a IM whatever composite and it's all legal.
Go with the blanks and rods you here everyone here using, especially the custom builders as they can have anything they want, so if they are fishing something it's for a reason.
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