daiwa black widow fishing rod Plus Carp 2026 in a lake or river Carpfishing Daiwa Black Widow Combo

The concept of lure fishing is to imitate a swimming, crawling, dying, struggling or overwhelmed creature or prey item by making a piece of wood or plastic look like the real thing so that a predator will try to eat it

It dives to about 2m on retrieve and so is useful for fishing near the bottom over shallow sandy ground or else to get properly subsurface when youre fishing in a surf and shallow divers cant get a grip

Wooden reel seat

the wire activator (red arrow) passes through the hole in the stainless steel pawl (blue arrow), and if the reel's one way anti-reverse clutch ever fails and the drive gear began spinning in the wrong direction (clockwise), the wire activator would slam the pawl down to engage hidden ratchet gears mounted on the pinion (you'll see them later), effectively acting as an old style ratchet anti-reverse allowing you to keep fishing until you can fix the clutch

Sliding: Applied on the line, but not in a fixed position, which enables them to move or slide up and down the line