ONIHIME Cloaca 180cm (1 piece)

Feel the shrimp bite with your hand and catch the Onihime in the hooking zone. A professional model suitable for shrimp fishing tournaments in Thailand.

The current high-end fishing rods in Thailand are designed to be flexible, and the mainstream method is to bend the rod when the float sinks and the shrimp touches the bait, and then check with the rod whether the shrimp is on the hook. This is very reasonable under Thai rules, which allow only one hook (Taiwan and Vietnam allow two hooks), and there are a lot of professional fishermen who hook the shrimp with the tip of the hook hooked.

However, when actually fishing in this form, the fishing rod is generally soft, so the hook has a disadvantage of being difficult to catch in the hard shrimp's mouth. Also, although it is interesting to pull it hard after catching a shrimp, there is a risk that the person next to you will get hooked when the fishing spot is crowded.

So, is it okay to have a hard tip to prevent the shrimp from coming off when hooked? We tried using a stiff rod, but found that the stiffness of the rod brought out its greatest disadvantage, as the hook bounced out of the shrimp's mouth, making it harder to catch fish than we had imagined.

Therefore, the ONIHIME Cloaca 180 adopts a method of separating the roles of sensing the bite from the role of hooking.

Even with conventional shrimp fishing rods, there were models that made it easy to sense the bite to a certain extent, but the main reason for not catching shrimp was that the hooking zone did not match.

Shrimp fishing rods are mostly four-piece rods. They are counted from the tip as #1, #2, #3 and #4. Today's high-end fishing rods for sea bream are #3 or #4, which are the closest to #4 when the hook actually exerts force on the tip after hooking.

There is a big time lag between hooking the fish and it actually getting hooked, so the hook falls off.

Therefore, we created ONIHIME's own hooking zone for the ONIHIME Cloaca 180. Specifically, #1 is where you detect the shrimp's bite, and #2 is where you hook it. #3 acts as a cushion to keep the shrimp from coming off, and #4 distributes the force. This is the idea behind creating a role for each carbon blank.

Recommended fishing spots: Bangkok (some ponds in Chiang Mai)

In Thailand, all fishing spots have a 180cm regulation, and 180cm is the maximum size that can be used. In particular, 180cm is the mainstream in Bangkok, where there are many large ponds. *160cm is physically more sensitive because it is shorter. Basically, we recommend carrying two rods, one 160cm and one 180cm.