b'TestedTica Wanderer SpinThe Tica Wanderer is a 1-piece rod designed to be fished with a baitfeeder reel.BY MATHEW HEWETSON taper is designed for quicker TICA WANDERERSPIN hook setting.It comes with quality spin guides, suited for line weights from 6-15kg (PE#2.03.0) and a cast Most Kiwi anglers will have one or two dedicated rods for snapperweight of 100250g.fishing for straylining or when using ledger rigs. TEST OUT WESTB efore the popularityhave accounted for thousands1-piece Wanderer featuresOur test rod was matched with a Tica Sportera LR6007 of lure fishingof fish across the country,a powerful but responsivefeeder reel and spooled with which has grownand they still do, being mostcomposite construction6kg mono.I had planned considerably hereemployed by boat fishermanblank, matched with eye- to take the rod off the west in Godzone, thefor bait fishing. catching cosmetics, qualitycoast of Northland in late number one goTica have produced plentycomponentry with good taperwinter for a snapper fish.We to combo was either anof rods over the years andrates and action. had been out wide jigging overhead or a baitfeeder stylerecently released the newIts 7ft (2.1m) flexible,for kingfish off the Hokianga reel on a spin rod suited forWanderer 2.1m spin rod forultra-high modulus graphiteat the 100m mark and 8-15kg mono.These combosthis ever-popular market.Theconstruction blank with fastcame back into 40m where 80FISHING IN GODZONE NOV/DEC 2021'