A day redfishing Florida's Space Coast revealed how modern fiberglass rods load quickly, cast short and accurately, and still handle real-world distance. Recently, I was fishing for reds in Mosquito ...

During normal combustion, with the rod at top dead center, the load from the combustion process causes a compressive force on the rod and a torsional vibration in the plane of the curved arrow.

The hot rod dates way back to the 1920s, but found its cultural footing in post-World War II America. Soldiers armed with mechanical training picked up cheap Ford Model Ts and found ways to make them ...