Harrison Ballista

[poledark]

Not always the reason Newt. If you think about it, a simple straight line overhead cast will always keep the rings/rod in line. Any other style, and the ones which will give most distance means the rod is twisted quite a lot.

 

The extreme case is the full pendulum cast which is always trying to twist the rod, often to such a degree that the top section twists in the spigot, in my case, being Right handed, the section is twisted to the right. This even happens when I am pushing for distance with my carp rods.

 

Den

Edited December 19, 2007 by poledark

[Newt]

Thanks for that info Den. I happily bow to the master of long casts on this one.

[Oldfellah]

Had 3 ballista's a few years ago and had one shatter first time out. Very through action so nice to play carp on but not great casting tools. I now have Ng's and feel they are in a different class to the Ballista's. Lovely soft tip to avoid hook pulls but lots of power in the middle for distance casting.The blanks for the Ballista's appear to be quite thin walled and are left unground to give extra strength whereas the Century blanks are low diameter but thick walled giving far great all round strength. Having said that plenty of my visiting anglers use Ballista's and are very happy with them!!

Edited December 22, 2007 by Oldfellah