fast action rods

just sitting here thinking, and i was wondering why almost all spinning rods these days, with the exclusion of noodle and ultra lights, are fast action?  i believe all my med. and ml are.  i watched four fishing shows this morning and from the looks of it, all the rods they were using were fast.  i guess i just miss the old glass rods and those moderate action rods. 

mark, are you talking about those mojo rods?  i was in****s sporting goods about two months ago and took one off the rack to look at.  i bent it as i have done thousands of rods in my lifetime.  this one snapped.  i told the employee working there that my wife did it and that she ran out of the store .  interesting concept.  light rod.

I like slower rods.  That's why I'm getting a new fiberglass crankbait rod made.  The graphite ones are just to fast and beat your arms up when throwing big crankbaits all day.

I refuse to use a slow spinning rod for bass fishing, I have tried before and they simply dont have the backbone to pull a weighted plastic thru and around cover, let alone setting the hook thru all that grass.  They may have their place in fly rods?

Ithink it must be phases that fishermen go through.  I have a couple of old bamboo rods, from around the 1900's that are so slow that if you put the weight of the line thru them they bend.  But they will drop a dry fly or a nymph without rippling the water.  Then about the 20's the rods started to get "faster" and stiffer till I get up to a tournament model made for casting competitions and it's as stiff as a 2x4 but it will throw a 4wt line a mile.  Then after WWII it seems that everyone wanted a softer glass rod, then gradually they got stiffer and faster.  Same thing happened with graphite.  Now we have very fast action rods. And I'm not very fond of them.  It's almost like we are sacrificing style and technique for distance and speed.  It seems TO ME that it is a lot easier to load a fast action rod and to cast long distances with one but TO ME  some of the feel and a lot of the accuracy disappears.  Just my 2 cents.    Go Fish!  <-))}}}><

A lot of it is personal preference but I love the fast or even extra fast actions on my spinning rods for most applications.  You can still get the rod with a light enough power to cushion 4 or 6lb test and still have a fast tip.  It's a tremendous help with getting a quick good hook set, ripping you bait through some grass, or the first few seconds you set the hook on a fish in a lay down tree or rock pile it helps pull it away from that cover a few feet where if the rod is slower it can get around a tree limb or under a rock before you can pull him out.