Shimano :: Trolling Rods :: TDR

I inherited this rod from my father who has had it for several years, and liked it alot. I have used it only sparingly, but it is the rod i lend to friends and family when they want to learn to fish. It has held up for 4 years for me already, and has been through some serious abuse. It has been slammed in the trucks tailgate, thrashed in the bushes, and pulled in some pretty impressive fish. Never heard a crack or a squeak, it has quite a few scratches, and wear, but the performance has been unaffected. It gest stored outdoors yearround, unless it is sitting in the back of the car, and stays straight and true, with out even showing fade from the sun.

What value for money these rods are, you would never believe what these rods have caught and the jobs they do well.
I have the 9 foot medium to heavy and i use it for deep wreck fishing, salmon fishing as a trolling rod and for the tuna, striped marlin and sailfish. So tough, all my mates have them now, combined with a decent reel and some braid there ain't much these rods can't handle. Had a 300lb black marlin subdued in no time. The rod was seriously under tension but never a groan was heard, amazing bit of kit. Mine now is 12 years old and still in use, i also have 3 others just in case they stop making them.

trout trolling rods,especially lightweight, are almost
impossible to procure, but this one works

Wonderful rod for the money they, handle big fish very well. I have about 9 of them, after some usage you may have to replace an eye now and then but altogether, these are GREAT RODS !

The first one of these rods i owned i found stuck in a pile of tulle's with a spinning reel attached to it. soon after i replaced the spinning reel with a bait caster and have been using it for the past 8 years! it just recently boke the tip eye off after 8+ years of hard abuse with bass, rock cod, catfish, stripers and even sharks!

added two tdr-70mb's too my trolling set up. I usually run planer mast and boards with clips and rubber bands and what ive found is the eyelets are small and if the rubberband doesn't break off it is very tight going thru the eyes didn't loose any fish thank god rod does have good action for trolling though