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Has anyone on this board had any experience with these Shimano Travel Rods? EXAGE AX STC SPECIMEN Model Number Length (m) Weight (g) Transport Length (cm) Number of Sections Guides Blank Material Casting Weight (g) TEXAX12275L 3.66, 347 grm 65.6cm 6 sections & guides - 100 grms TEXAX12300L 3.66, 387 grm 65.6cm 6 sections & guides - 125 grms This seems like it could be used as a lightweight surf rod, that could be used for bait, or casting lures for a person that travels a lot.... Any opinion would be greatly appreciated ....thanks...:secret: :clap3: :notworthy  

Not the rods you mention, but we have a couple of Exage STC telescopic spinning rods. 210cm, 10-30g cw. The rods are light and well made and less than 12" long when folded. However, one did shatter second time out. It was exchanged without question by Veals where we bought it, who hinted that there was a bit of a failure rate. So - IMHO good rods, but if I were to buy one for a holiday trip, I would get out and use it a bit to make sure it is sound before taking it away.  

hey Nomad, I bought one of the Shimano Exage STC travel rods last year for my travels and can highly recommend them. I think I paid around 50-60 squids for it and it was worth every penny. I went to India for 6 weeks with mine and it strapped to the side of my rucksack with ease and was well protected in the solid tube that comes with it. I primarily used it for chucking big lures, which it is perfect for. It is lightweight, nice to hold and has 2 butt sections with different sized eyes for fixed spool or multiplier use. I caught barramundi in the estuaries up to 19lb ( as seen in my avatar) and Mahseer in freshwater up to 26lb. I had the 125g rod and it had no problems dealing with these brutes. It was also fine for close range surf casting with up to 2.5oz lead attached and float fishing. Can't say enough good things about them. Sure theres probably much better/more expensive travel rods out there but this was more than capable of stepping up to the task when required and a bargain to boot! tight lines.....where you off to on your travels?? sam.  

I have the TEXAX12300L and use it as my main rod and have absolutely no complaints about its ability. I liked it so much i went out and bought the beast master AX STC for light spinning again an excellent rod  

I have fished with the Exage and it's a nice rod. A bit light for what you describe and a bit long and soft for a spinning rod. I'm currently trying to find a little more information about a couple of Shimmy travel rods and you might want to include them in your consideration list. Theres the Shimano Beastmaster AX STC Pilk 300 Rod and the STC TRIBAL LITE MULTI TRAVEL 2.75lb TC. Info is a bit thin at the moment but if I find anything else I'll post. Don't limit yourself to Shimamo though. There is a Wynchwood travel catfish rod that's a bit nive - but a bit longer than I'm looking for.  

had a carp one for a few years they are just the job been all over the world with me cast up to 4 oncs spin with it floatfish lure it will do the lot  

Hi mate, I`ve got the 7 section Shimano Beastmaster Beachcaster. Unbelievably brilliant for a sectioned rod. Great action and casts miles! I`m sure any of their rods would be great! Tight lines, Rich  

Here's a reply to a query that I made about a Penn rod. Hello Ken, this rod is suitable for casting lures as well as jigging them. The 50-190g ist the casting weight. Shipping cost: EUR 15.90. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hi. I've been looking for a heavy travel spinning rod for some time. The ones that I've found will only cast upto 100g. I've just foud your site and seen the Penn charisma pilk 2.7m that is rated to cast 30 - 120g or 5o - 190g. This looks like it might be the tool I need. Four questions: Is this rod suitable for casting lures as well as jigging them ? Is the 50 - 190g rating the casting weight or the weight of jigs that it can handle when the lure is lowered from the side of a boat ? If 50 - 190g is the jig rating, how much weight will it cast with a proper full force cast ? How much is postage to the UK likely to work out at for this rod ? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Kind Regards Peggy Angelcenter Karlsruhe >> Fishingtackle24  

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i just went in to le baron to pick up a new ultralight rod for portaging trips (recently broke my nice little fenwick hmx 5'6", d'oh!). ended up picking up a shimano voltaeus ultralight which seems like a sound choice (and for $30 not a bad bet) but the salesman got me looking at the shimano exage telescopic series. it felt nice in the hand and the carrying case is a major bonus, but i'm hesitant to buy one as i've no experience with the design. any OFC'ers using one? or other similar travel rods?

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Haha what a coincidence! I just got a package for my birthday from my brother in Calgary. In it was a Shimano Exage 4 piece 7' spinning rod. I haven't had a chance to use it yet, but it feels and looks great and the case is definitely a bonus. I have a few (ultralight, med-light, med) St. Croix which I love, but all my reels are Shimano. My brother told me after I opened it that he had been trying to get a Beastmaster for me, but was told they stopped making them and the Exage basically replaced it. He had taken the Beastmaster everywhere during his research trips searching for bees across the mountains and plains of Canada and South East Asia and the Palmirs.

He is an insane fisherman as am I and I feel that this rod will continue to collect stories just as his did.

One tip he gave me and I will pass along as well. If you are travelling with it, leave an extra tip somewhere in the case with a small piece of glue stick. Better to have it and never use it, then to not have it and need it.

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I have a 6 and a half foot telescoping version (medium spinning). No issues for me, although I haven't used it a lot. I bought it specifically for a trip to Cuba but I have used it a few other times. I picked up mine for about $80-$90 three years ago.

no issues but have you liked how it's worked? sensitivity, casting, ease of use...

i'm mostly going to be trolling, casting spinners, and bouncing bottom with a jig with it, and plan on targeting mostly brookies, though probably lakers as well and the occasional smallmouth too.

I haven't trolled with it.

By its very design it's a compromise, but it fits in a backpack or a suitcase and is much better then most of the rods that where available 20 years ago. It's not as sensitive, or strong, as a similar priced one piece but I'll let it role around in the trunk of my car and always have it with me.

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i just went in to le baron to pick up a new ultralight rod for portaging trips (recently broke my nice little fenwick hmx 5'6", d'oh!). ended up picking up a shimano voltaeus ultralight which seems like a sound choice (and for $30 not a bad bet) but the salesman got me looking at the shimano exage telescopic series. it felt nice in the hand and the carrying case is a major bonus, but i'm hesitant to buy one as i've no experience with the design. any OFC'ers using one? or other similar travel rods? any feedback would be appreciated!

Can't say i've had any experience with that particular rod . But if i could only take one rod with me ... you couldn,t pay me to take a telescopic . I would go with a 4 pc travel rod . My buddy bought one of those travel kits from cdntire , its a 4 or 5 pc rod comes with a cheap spinning reel and a cheap fly reel ( tried a few casts with it .. and it was actually a pretty decent rod ) , and he seems pretty happy with it .

My personal preference is one pc fast action ultralight . The thing i don't like about telescopic rods most is the simple fact that i don.t trust them to not break . Ive seen too many broken telescopic rods left behind just sitting there on the ground .

I can not tell you from personal experience ( because i would just never buy one ) but if you go with a telescopic . I would keep the tip a little lower than a regular rod when reeling in a fish .

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The Exage multi piece rod is wicked... I didn't know they had a telescopic version? I filmed a show in the bahamas a few years back and was able to use a 4 piece Exage for bonefish and jack's and it performed flawlessly. If I ever do any personal traveling and am planning to fish I'll be buying one for sure.

the salesman at le baron claimed that a telescopic rod is not as good as a one-piece (clearly) but better than a two-piece, because it is essentially a one-piece construction with no single point of stiffness to dampen sensitivity. this is a pretty interesting thought. anybody have anything to add to that?

i was really surprised at the feel of the rod in my hand. it was a little stiff at the butt for an ultralight, but it did feel light and whippy throughout and quite nicely balanced. i also like that i can simply collapse the rod with the reel on, tuck it into its case, and be ready to cast in less than a minute if the situation arises.

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the salesman at le baron claimed that a telescopic rod is not as good as a one-piece (clearly) but better than a two-piece, because it is essentially a one-piece construction with no single point of stiffness to dampen sensitivity. this is a pretty interesting thought. anybody have anything to add to that?   i was really surprised at the feel of the rod in my hand. it was a little stiff at the butt for an ultralight, but it did feel light and whippy throughout and quite nicely balanced. i also like that i can simply collapse the rod with the reel on, tuck it into its case, and be ready to cast in less than a minute if the situation arises.

I would disagree with the salesman that a telescopic rod is better than a two piece. First of all, if that were the case, why aren't there more telescopic rods than two-piece? But his argument that there is no single point of stiffness to dampen the sensitivity is flawed in my opinion. I would say there are points of stiffness at the beginning and end of each segment, that is why a single piece rod is better than a two piece, which is better than a four piece, which is better than a 5 piece, which is better than a telescopic. Now don't get me wrong, blank quality and craftsmanship plays a huge role here.

i bought a Telescopic rod for my trip to Cuba. I ended up leaving the pieces of that rod in Cuba. The rod tip would not go back down no matter how hard I tried. I was like it was glued together with superglue after I extended the rod out. After fussing with it for about 30 minutes and breaking 2 eyelids I tossed it into the trash ( after snapping it) Even the locals didn't want it. One of the guys I was travelling with had a 4 piece medium spinning rod and reel combo and that worked like a dream. Personally i would never go with a telescopic rod again.

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Shimano Exage BX STC Mini Tele Spinning 240 Medium 8 Feet, Travel Spinning Fishing Rod, TEXBXMTS24M

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• Comes with hard rod case, weight: 4.87 ounce
• Castingweight (max. lineweight incl. lure): 0.3 - 1 ounce
• Length: 7.9 ft, Transportlength: 1.25 ft
• Guides: 8, Blankmaterial: XT60

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Amazing quality at an amazing price &ndash - that summarises our extensive new 2010 Exage BX STC range of Telespin, and Mini Telespin rods. XT60 blanks, Shimano Hardlite Aero Guides, Easy Access Hook Keepers, and Hardcase storage tubes are found on all these rods. Upgraded with Vibraspot reelseats to feel the tinniest of bites. For anglers wanting top quality spinning rods with a minimum of transportation length. Combine these rods with 500 or 1000 size Shimano reels and you have a perfectly balanced, go anywhere outfit. This travel fishing rod will convince you. Comes with hard rod case.

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In Transit: Notes from the Underground

Jun 06 2018.

Spend some time in one of Moscow’s finest museums.

Subterranean commuting might not be anyone’s idea of a good time, but even in a city packing the war-games treasures and priceless bejeweled eggs of the Kremlin Armoury and the colossal Soviet pavilions of the VDNKh , the Metro holds up as one of Moscow’s finest museums. Just avoid rush hour.

The Metro is stunning and provides an unrivaled insight into the city’s psyche, past and present, but it also happens to be the best way to get around. Moscow has Uber, and the Russian version called Yandex Taxi , but also some nasty traffic. Metro trains come around every 90 seconds or so, at a more than 99 percent on-time rate. It’s also reasonably priced, with a single ride at 55 cents (and cheaper in bulk). From history to tickets to rules — official and not — here’s what you need to know to get started.

A Brief Introduction Buying Tickets Know Before You Go (Down) Rules An Easy Tour

A Brief Introduction

Moscow’s Metro was a long time coming. Plans for rapid transit to relieve the city’s beleaguered tram system date back to the Imperial era, but a couple of wars and a revolution held up its development. Stalin revived it as part of his grand plan to modernize the Soviet Union in the 1920s and 30s. The first lines and tunnels were constructed with help from engineers from the London Underground, although Stalin’s secret police decided that they had learned too much about Moscow’s layout and had them arrested on espionage charges and deported.

The beauty of its stations (if not its trains) is well-documented, and certainly no accident. In its illustrious first phases and particularly after the Second World War, the greatest architects of Soviet era were recruited to create gleaming temples celebrating the Revolution, the USSR, and the war triumph. No two stations are exactly alike, and each of the classic showpieces has a theme. There are world-famous shrines to Futurist architecture, a celebration of electricity, tributes to individuals and regions of the former Soviet Union. Each marble slab, mosaic tile, or light fixture was placed with intent, all in service to a station’s aesthetic; each element, f rom the smallest brass ear of corn to a large blood-spattered sword on a World War II mural, is an essential part of the whole.

The Metro is a monument to the Soviet propaganda project it was intended to be when it opened in 1935 with the slogan “Building a Palace for the People”. It brought the grand interiors of Imperial Russia to ordinary Muscovites, celebrated the Soviet Union’s past achievements while promising its citizens a bright Soviet future, and of course, it was a show-piece for the world to witness the might and sophistication of life in the Soviet Union.

It may be a museum, but it’s no relic. U p to nine million people use it daily, more than the London Underground and New York Subway combined. (Along with, at one time, about 20 stray dogs that learned to commute on the Metro.)

In its 80+ year history, the Metro has expanded in phases and fits and starts, in step with the fortunes of Moscow and Russia. Now, partly in preparation for the World Cup 2018, it’s also modernizing. New trains allow passengers to walk the entire length of the train without having to change carriages. The system is becoming more visitor-friendly. (There are helpful stickers on the floor marking out the best selfie spots .) But there’s a price to modernity: it’s phasing out one of its beloved institutions, the escalator attendants. Often they are middle-aged or elderly women—“ escalator grandmas ” in news accounts—who have held the post for decades, sitting in their tiny kiosks, scolding commuters for bad escalator etiquette or even bad posture, or telling jokes . They are slated to be replaced, when at all, by members of the escalator maintenance staff.

For all its achievements, the Metro lags behind Moscow’s above-ground growth, as Russia’s capital sprawls ever outwards, generating some of the world’s worst traffic jams . But since 2011, the Metro has been in the middle of an ambitious and long-overdue enlargement; 60 new stations are opening by 2020. If all goes to plan, the 2011-2020 period will have brought 125 miles of new tracks and over 100 new stations — a 40 percent increase — the fastest and largest expansion phase in any period in the Metro’s history.

Facts: 14 lines Opening hours: 5 a.m-1 a.m. Rush hour(s): 8-10 a.m, 4-8 p.m. Single ride: 55₽ (about 85 cents) Wi-Fi network-wide

Buying Tickets

• Ticket machines have a button to switch to English.
• You can buy specific numbers of rides: 1, 2, 5, 11, 20, or 60. Hold up fingers to show how many rides you want to buy.
• There is also a 90-minute ticket , which gets you 1 trip on the metro plus an unlimited number of transfers on other transport (bus, tram, etc) within 90 minutes.
• Or, you can buy day tickets with unlimited rides: one day (218₽/ US$4), three days (415₽/US$7) or seven days (830₽/US$15). Check the rates here to stay up-to-date.
• If you’re going to be using the Metro regularly over a few days, it’s worth getting a Troika card , a contactless, refillable card you can use on all public transport. Using the Metro is cheaper with one of these: a single ride is 36₽, not 55₽. Buy them and refill them in the Metro stations, and they’re valid for 5 years, so you can keep it for next time. Or, if you have a lot of cash left on it when you leave, you can get it refunded at the Metro Service Centers at Ulitsa 1905 Goda, 25 or at Staraya Basmannaya 20, Building 1.
• You can also buy silicone bracelets and keychains with built-in transport chips that you can use as a Troika card. (A Moscow Metro Fitbit!) So far, you can only get these at the Pushkinskaya metro station Live Helpdesk and souvenir shops in the Mayakovskaya and Trubnaya metro stations. The fare is the same as for the Troika card.
• You can also use Apple Pay and Samsung Pay.

Rules, spoken and unspoken

No smoking, no drinking, no filming, no littering. Photography is allowed, although it used to be banned.

Stand to the right on the escalator. Break this rule and you risk the wrath of the legendary escalator attendants. (No shenanigans on the escalators in general.)

Get out of the way. Find an empty corner to hide in when you get off a train and need to stare at your phone. Watch out getting out of the train in general; when your train doors open, people tend to appear from nowhere or from behind ornate marble columns, walking full-speed.

Always offer your seat to elderly ladies (what are you, a monster?).

An Easy Tour

This is no Metro Marathon ( 199 stations in 20 hours ). It’s an easy tour, taking in most—though not all—of the notable stations, the bulk of it going clockwise along the Circle line, with a couple of short detours. These stations are within minutes of one another, and the whole tour should take about 1-2 hours.

Start at Mayakovskaya Metro station , at the corner of Tverskaya and Garden Ring,  Triumfalnaya Square, Moskva, Russia, 125047.

1. Mayakovskaya.  Named for Russian Futurist Movement poet Vladimir Mayakovsky and an attempt to bring to life the future he imagined in his poems. (The Futurist Movement, natch, was all about a rejecting the past and celebrating all things speed, industry, modern machines, youth, modernity.) The result: an Art Deco masterpiece that won the National Grand Prix for architecture at the New York World’s Fair in 1939. It’s all smooth, rounded shine and light, and gentle arches supported by columns of dark pink marble and stainless aircraft steel. Each of its 34 ceiling niches has a mosaic. During World War II, the station was used as an air-raid shelter and, at one point, a bunker for Stalin. He gave a subdued but rousing speech here in Nov. 6, 1941 as the Nazis bombed the city above.

Take the 3/Green line one station to:

2. Belorusskaya. Opened in 1952, named after the connected Belarussky Rail Terminal, which runs trains between Moscow and Belarus. This is a light marble affair with a white, cake-like ceiling, lined with Belorussian patterns and 12 Florentine ceiling mosaics depicting life in Belarussia when it was built.

Transfer onto the 1/Brown line. Then, one stop (clockwise) t o:

3. Novoslobodskaya.  This station was designed around the stained-glass panels, which were made in Latvia, because Alexey Dushkin, the Soviet starchitect who dreamed it up (and also designed Mayakovskaya station) couldn’t find the glass and craft locally. The stained glass is the same used for Riga’s Cathedral, and the panels feature plants, flowers, members of the Soviet intelligentsia (musician, artist, architect) and geometric shapes.

Go two stops east on the 1/Circle line to:

4. Komsomolskaya. Named after the Komsomol, or the Young Communist League, this might just be peak Stalin Metro style. Underneath the hub for three regional railways, it was intended to be a grand gateway to Moscow and is today its busiest station. It has chandeliers; a yellow ceiling with Baroque embellishments; and in the main hall, a colossal red star overlaid on golden, shimmering tiles. Designer Alexey Shchusev designed it as an homage to the speech Stalin gave at Red Square on Nov. 7, 1941, in which he invoked Russia’s illustrious military leaders as a pep talk to Soviet soldiers through the first catastrophic year of the war.   The station’s eight large mosaics are of the leaders referenced in the speech, such as Alexander Nevsky, a 13th-century prince and military commander who bested German and Swedish invading armies.

One more stop clockwise to Kurskaya station,  and change onto the 3/Blue  line, and go one stop to:

5. Baumanskaya.   Opened in 1944. Named for the Bolshevik Revolutionary Nikolai Bauman , whose monument and namesake district are aboveground here. Though he seemed like a nasty piece of work (he apparently once publicly mocked a woman he had impregnated, who later hung herself), he became a Revolutionary martyr when he was killed in 1905 in a skirmish with a monarchist, who hit him on the head with part of a steel pipe. The station is in Art Deco style with atmospherically dim lighting, and a series of bronze sculptures of soldiers and homefront heroes during the War. At one end, there is a large mosaic portrait of Lenin.

Stay on that train direction one more east to:

6. Elektrozavodskaya. As you may have guessed from the name, this station is the Metro’s tribute to all thing electrical, built in 1944 and named after a nearby lightbulb factory. It has marble bas-relief sculptures of important figures in electrical engineering, and others illustrating the Soviet Union’s war-time struggles at home. The ceiling’s recurring rows of circular lamps give the station’s main tunnel a comforting glow, and a pleasing visual effect.

Double back two stops to Kurskaya station , and change back to the 1/Circle line. Sit tight for six stations to:

7. Kiyevskaya. This was the last station on the Circle line to be built, in 1954, completed under Nikita Khrushchev’ s guidance, as a tribute to his homeland, Ukraine. Its three large station halls feature images celebrating Ukraine’s contributions to the Soviet Union and Russo-Ukrainian unity, depicting musicians, textile-working, soldiers, farmers. (One hall has frescoes, one mosaics, and the third murals.) Shortly after it was completed, Khrushchev condemned the architectural excesses and unnecessary luxury of the Stalin era, which ushered in an epoch of more austere Metro stations. According to the legend at least, he timed the policy in part to ensure no Metro station built after could outshine Kiyevskaya.

Change to the 3/Blue line and go one stop west.

8. Park Pobedy. This is the deepest station on the Metro, with one of the world’s longest escalators, at 413 feet. If you stand still, the escalator ride to the surface takes about three minutes .) Opened in 2003 at Victory Park, the station celebrates two of Russia’s great military victories. Each end has a mural by Georgian artist Zurab Tsereteli, who also designed the “ Good Defeats Evil ” statue at the UN headquarters in New York. One mural depicts the Russian generals’ victory over the French in 1812 and the other, the German surrender of 1945. The latter is particularly striking; equal parts dramatic, triumphant, and gruesome. To the side, Red Army soldiers trample Nazi flags, and if you look closely there’s some blood spatter among the detail. Still, the biggest impressions here are the marble shine of the chessboard floor pattern and the pleasingly geometric effect if you view from one end to the other.

Keep going one more stop west to:

9. Slavyansky Bulvar.  One of the Metro’s youngest stations, it opened in 2008. With far higher ceilings than many other stations—which tend to have covered central tunnels on the platforms—it has an “open-air” feel (or as close to it as you can get, one hundred feet under). It’s an homage to French architect Hector Guimard, he of the Art Nouveau entrances for the Paris M é tro, and that’s precisely what this looks like: A Moscow homage to the Paris M é tro, with an additional forest theme. A Cyrillic twist on Guimard’s Metro-style lettering over the benches, furnished with t rees and branch motifs, including creeping vines as towering lamp-posts.

Stay on the 3/Blue line and double back four stations to:

10. Arbatskaya. Its first iteration, Arbatskaya-Smolenskaya station, was damaged by German bombs in 1941. It was rebuilt in 1953, and designed to double as a bomb shelter in the event of nuclear war, although unusually for stations built in the post-war phase, this one doesn’t have a war theme. It may also be one of the system’s most elegant: Baroque, but toned down a little, with red marble floors and white ceilings with gilded bronze c handeliers.

Jump back on the 3/Blue line  in the same direction and take it one more stop:

11. Ploshchad Revolyutsii (Revolution Square). Opened in 1938, and serving Red Square and the Kremlin . Its renowned central hall has marble columns flanked by 76 bronze statues of Soviet heroes: soldiers, students, farmers, athletes, writers, parents. Some of these statues’ appendages have a yellow sheen from decades of Moscow’s commuters rubbing them for good luck. Among the most popular for a superstitious walk-by rub: the snout of a frontier guard’s dog, a soldier’s gun (where the touch of millions of human hands have tapered the gun barrel into a fine, pointy blade), a baby’s foot, and a woman’s knee. (A brass rooster also sports the telltale gold sheen, though I am told that rubbing the rooster is thought to bring bad luck. )

Now take the escalator up, and get some fresh air.

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