Abu Garcia and Ike Help You Take Your Show On the Road

Total Score: 7.67 - GOOD

Introduction: With all the difficulty these days trying to fly with more than one suitcase, let alone a big tube full of fishing rods, it's a little surprising there aren't more options for multi-piece fishing rods made for the fisher-person who loves to travel. Abu Garcia recently introduced an option within their IKE series of rods consisting of a multi-piece stick with two different tips giving you two powers from which to choose when you string up on location. Here's our look at Abu Garcia's IKE Travel Spinning Rod.

Introducing the Abu Garcia IKE Travel series of rods

Impressions: Abu Garcia's IKE Signature Series Travel rods are available in both a casting and spinning configuration. We acquired the spinning configuration for this review. It arrives in a very nice, rigid travel case with a little pouch to accommodate your reel when mounted on the handle portion of the rod.

We took a look at the spinning version which comes in four pieces

Opening up the zipper reveals four pieces to this travel rod, one handle section, a middle section, and two tips. One rated medium in power, the other medium light. I mostly fished the medium light tip. Once fully assembled the rod measures roughly seven feet (7'-0") in length and has the same look and feel as the one-piece IKE Finesse Series spinning rods.

That's the base, middle, and two different tips so you can set up the stick as a medium or medium light power