In this video, “Budget Fiberglass BFS Rod Review – BFS Trout Fishing”, Hobie-Wan Kenobi uses a variety of lures to test the casting capabilities of this new fiberglass BFS rod and catches a few trout in a stream as well.
Link to the Dan Kung GLASSFIN Fiberglass BFS rod:
https://www.dankung.com/product/fiberglass-glassfin-finesse-fishing-rod_3399
I will be updating information on this rod as I get more time fishing with it. Below are my initial thought of the GLASSFIN fiberglass BFS rod:
BLANK: Blank is made of a an almost two year process of refining the fiberglass materials to attain a responsive, lightweight and flexible taper that retains backbone. I found the blank to have all of those qualities
GUIDES: Fuji Stainless Steel Alconite. Basic guides that get the job done. I have many custom rods with Alconites. I believe guides provide the least “cost to performance” of major components and upgrades are used to raise rod prices.
REEL SEAT: Looks proprietary. Metal trigger is comfortable and reel seat is comfortable. Wood insert is a nice touch. Wood is smooth and is seamless with the metal parts of the reel seat. Wood has a slight taper for increased comfort.
GRIP: Grip is made of decent quality cork. I will report long term condition of cork after more use.
Only real downside of this rod is the epoxy work with the ferrules. There is A LOT of extra epoxy inside the blank where the ferrule is inserted into the blank. I communicated this to Dan Kung and they told me they would refine that process for production.
Overall good quality fiberglass rod for finesse stream fishing. The versatility I think is what surprised me the most.
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Looks like good times, I'm testing rainshadow SPG601 with MicroWave guides and pistol grip.
Say I take say the new Aldebaran off my trout rod and put it on a 7.3 heavy power mod action rod will it still work properly with regular size bass lures. Basically I’m asking can I still use a bfs reel for non bfs fishing lol
Hi, again nice video with candid critique on the rods performance. Do you have the rod brand and spec details as I wasn’t able to fully grasp this information. Stephen
Never tried bfs but I like fiberglass rods for extreme cold conditions as well. I’ve had carbon spinning rods explode from fishing negative temps. Seems to me the glass rods just bend easier.
Been eyeing this rod for some time, but after this review I am so getiing this rod and go pick a fight with some strong and fast local salt water fish..👍👍👍
This one surprised me, wasn't expecting to see you review this one! I've contemplated testing one out before but I'm always kinda leery of CDM products but it seems pretty okay, especially given the price like you mentioned. I just got my Sylpher SYCVCi-46XUL/P4, its a beautiful trout rod and from your review of the Daiwa Silver Creek 51L it sounds like the Sylpher is similar in that its a glass blank up to the tip, which is carbon. Has a really nice moderate, almost progressive action.
Aioushi 4 piece glass rods are fantastic with a drill type chuck mechanism at the handle + 3 glass sections and 9 guides…. $60-120
My best trout was a 28” great lakes steelhead, but I really want a trophy native brown
Just got the calcutta bfs. Rod didnt come in yet so went to walmart n got one of those kiddie uglystik for 15 bux. Man not a bad combo
Nice video, once again….but to me, 160$ for an AliExpress rod is not that budget friendly. I would assume, that for this amount of money you can as well get a Majorcraft, Palms, A-Tec or even a low priced DAIWA rod from Japan.
Nice review! But to me this rod seems 'premium' or at least very good quality 🙂 Much better craftmanship than NTY Windshadow, which actually is not bad, only joints of it are bad. Also action of this Dan Kung seems way more refined than NTY Windshadow, but also Windshadow makes it's duty and it is nice to cast short and medium length casts. Seems like Dan Kung tends to wobble much less than Windshadow – which is very good thing, because there's nothing good if rod tends to wobble unnecessarily. This reel seat of Dan Kung is great looking, but personally I would enjoy Fuji SKTS more, but that's only my opinion 🙂
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Just subbed last week. Wanting to get a 5’ creek rod bfs and a lake/river 7’ bfs.
Was at my shop and I seen a 7’ UL spinmatic Kokanee baitcasting rod rated for 2-6 lb line. Wanting to pair that 7’ rod with a kastking zephyr bfs. It would be my UL spoon rig. Thoughts on that $120 set up ?
