Need help please. Looking for spinning rods. Coming back to fishing after over 15 yrs away. Career, kids, life...etc ... Anyways, i fished the upper delaware, Deposit/Hancock NY and Cannonsville reservoir below my cabin from around 1977-2007 and most of the 90's jetting the Susquehanna Pittston to Wyalusing , before alotta jets on there . Anyways, I always preferred weightless feeling rods, stiff and with a stiff tip...and full cork handles ... Just pulled out my old favorite but i'm having a very hard time finding anything like it today . Wasn't an expensive, exotic rod . It's a Fenwick Graphite, 5'9" M (Medium?) says ES59 . I will attach some pics . To me, this rod feels nearly weightless and the tip is nice and stiff . I always ran either 6lb Trilene extra limp in the reservoir (no snags) or 6-8lb in the rivers (have spare spools) . I went looking for rods at cabelas ...no luck, so if i break this one im $crewd . Most of the rods i tried recently to me just seem too wobbly, slow recovery, too soft tip and/or too heavy and the handles are ugghh ! The closest thing to my old fenwick i found was a St Croix Premier 6'6" PS66MF2sg (the 6' version was nice too) . I bought the 6'6", nice rod but... i'm not a big fan of the handle, palm of my hand is resting on threads and overall it's a little heavier feeling . The handle on my old Fenwick is much nicer in the hand . I also have an old Berkley Pro Signature med-heavy "Wormin" PSB 27-6 im6 rod ....this to me is even closer in feel and action to the St Croix Premier i bought . Both these rods are probably 20 years old ... can't remember . I would love to find anything like them today...and i'm not brand loyal . I'm trying to find rods like this so i have spares. If i break this fenwick, not only am i out but i have nothing to campare to. Seems today reels are better and cheaper but rods...not so much. Last pic is my Berkley/Fen/StCrx . Unrelated but, I also have some Browning Medallion and Trophy Tamers for trolling the reservoir too. Thanks !
