Bought a cr10 14ft no3 a few years ago to fish on the river Trent and absolutely love it! it has dealt with fish from small dace up to 13lb barbel with ease, just purchased a second one for days where I fish two rods for barbel or a spare on the roost on match days.
Impressed with the 13ft #3, bought the 14ft #3 for when I need to go a bit further and for those 'wild horses 'days on the reservoir.
Not my first rod from cadence The cr10 14 foot feeder arrived in excellent time I used it straight away and once again wasn’t disappointed I had always been of the opinion that cheep rods were just as good as the more expensive ones BUT since using the cadence rods there is a massive difference I would recommend adding these rods to your bag
First match yesterday or training here in Holland as it's called for now with my 14' feeder rod and 5000 reel. Not such a success on the fish front for me or for many as there was clear water and no flow. This river venue has a width of around 130m and you need to cast 70m+ on hard days and and even this didn't help.... However, the gear setup was fine and the tackle balance was superb. Sometimes a grip feeder of 120g or more is required here but anything of 60 or 75g did it's job. End of match thought Id try out the combo on distance casting to see what it, or I, could do! Different feeders from 60 to 75g as used during the day. Went from 75-80m then started giving it more Wellie each cast. Reached 92m, then 95m then hit the Ton.. 105m. This was into a moderate wind. I feel the gear could take more if required and get further. The fish I caught were good sized and the combo worked well. I have total confidence in what I have. For the techies I was using .10 braid with .30mm Leader. I would go a lower diameter leader if not expecting to cast so far. More fish next time please!
Received my CR10 14ft feeder a few days ago here in Holland. Couldn't wait to give it a test on my local river Rhine. (Dutch Nederijne) at Driel near Arnhem which is around 150m wide and at this moment 6m deep, with a CS10 500 strapped to it. River was up an pumping so a good test was on the cards. My first swim needed 100g feeder with grips to barely hold . The rod was up to it with a 5oz tip and could take more weight happily but the weed coming down stream, having no bites and a cold 'in the face wind' was annoying enough to make the decision to move to the other side of the river where there is a wide bay. New location the wind would be behind me and still have flow around the bay. Easier fishing! Arrived and ready with only 60g required now to hold. First bite after 20 minutes a Bream of 4lb, nothing for another 30 minutes but then a steady run of bream to 6lb. Net of over 25kg/55lb after a few hours. The rod and reel combo was heaven to use. I wasnt' casting far say about 50m. The power but smoothness of the rod gave nothing but confidence in casting , hooking and playing fish to the net. Bites were mostly positive pumps followed by drop backs but even the smallest rattle and liner was easy to see. Only bumped one smallish Bream at the net but this turned out to be a hook issue.
Looking forward to leaning into some Barbel in the future, however, I feel this is a very, very multi use rod which could cover my various methods and venues.