Thats is Odd.

I'm just on the reel fishing site and i came across a 'shimano Purist 12ft 2.75lb deadbait classic' and the price is at £40.85 and £5 for P&P so the total is £45. and I searched the rod on google and it came up at £100-£120 near about

here the links below
http://www.reelfishing.co.uk/proddetail.asp?prod=6791 - reel fishing

http://www.google.co.uk/products?hl=en&source=hp&q=shimano%20purist%20rods%20pike&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wf - google search

whats is getting me is the price diffrence...

Has anyone came across anything similar of this when looking at tackle ?

BUY IT BEFORE THEY REALISE TEH MISTAKE

noodle wrote:BUY IT BEFORE THEY REALISE TEH MISTAKE

the rod any good?

I am quiet tempted to do that

i cant see it being a bag of spanners, but there are a few touches on it that make me think its more of a carp crossover pike rod

line clip why a pike rod needs one of those is lost on me

hook keepers are another pointless addition to a rod all they do is stick the hooks closer to your hand when your moving

six rings means it should fold in half perfectly (most shims do)
2.75 a little light for my tastes but no doubt if your not fishing the glacials or monster rivers/lakes then its big enough

in all honesty having not seen it i cant see it being a bad rod for yourself or many pikers on the average normal water its more than adequate adn being a shimano will probably last years (unlike the reels nowadays)

i own a good few shimano rods and the only fault i can lay at them is the colouring/finish sometimes on a couple of models has been a bit iffy, and the eyes on my beastmaster jerk were really far too fragile

super ultegras were prone to sunburn/bleaching
and the original diaflash went white in the rain

out of a fair few ranges of the shimano rods thats all i can say bad about them i still use the areo speciman, the super ultegras, the beastmaster lure rod


final bit i am very heavy handed with gear and if its deemed unbreakable i will find a way to break it so all the above are from personal experience and i know other anglers had no problems with them, the diaflash though did suffer as a whole from the rain problem

alex..... IF YOU CAN AFFORD TO THEN BUY A PAIR OF THEM, I'VE HEARD OF THEM BEFORE AND THEY'RE ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC RODS!!!

2 of my rods are Shimano & were £50ea. Get one, it will compliment the Rogue..
Mine are Forcemaster 2 3/14TC & are fine. Carp rods with a very through action, don't worry, the Pike will not ignore your baits just because you are using a Carp rod, they can't read LOL!

I'm going to get one.................. I cannot Argue with that price.... I'll have to scrap a max baitcaster for a while.....

shim rods have never let me down and at that price there a bargain

Well dad lent me a tenner to top me up to £50 and I went to Order one one of the rod's this afternoon and It said Error...............went on site and Snap.... it had gone to a hundred odd quid like all the others....
Probably to good to be true... might just go get a wychwood agitator bait from dragon carp.....(YES THEY STOCK SOME WYCHWOOD GEAR not there cheap sometime decent crap)

rrrrrrrrrrr aaaaaaaa gone, But your a tenner up, Laughin