![Redfish caught on Bubba rod](https://www.sportfishingmag.com/uploads/2021/12/1-TidalPro-1024x699.jpg)
These days, an invitation to travel and fish becomes a welcome distraction from pandemic stay-at-home-itis. So when Bubba asked me to join their pros and other media representatives to test the company’s new line of Tidal inshore rods in Charleston, South Carolina, last month, I jumped. Good choice.
Which leads me to a question: What would you call new spinning rods that land 110 redfish in one day among four anglers? “Lucky” just doesn’t seem to do it. “Golden?”
![Three redfish](https://www.sportfishingmag.com/uploads/2021/12/2-IMG_1951-1024x777.jpg)
By the way, that release tally earned our team a coveted Fishing Machine T-shirt from our fishing hosts — Redfin Charters. Also, in addition to redfish, we caught trout, flounder, bluefish, sheepshead and black drum. Swish.
![Bubba Tidal fishing rod](https://www.sportfishingmag.com/uploads/2021/12/3-TidalRod-1024x683.jpg)
Throughout a day and a half of fishing, we switched up among the three Tidal versions — Tidal, Tidal Select and Tidal Pro. The red-and-white Tidal rods feature 24-ton graphite construction, split reel seats and stainless-steel guides. They come in lengths from 6 feet 10 inches to 7 feet 6 inches, in spin or casting models, and cost $129.99.
![Bubba rod bent over](https://www.sportfishingmag.com/uploads/2021/12/4-TidalBend-1024x663.jpg)
Also red and white, Tidal Selects are made from 24/30-ton Toray graphite and come with Fuji graphite reel seats and Fuji BC Concept-O guides (aluminum-oxide inserts). Lengths for spin and cast models range from 7 feet to 7 feet 6 inches. Selects cost $199.99.
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![Flounder on the boat](https://www.sportfishingmag.com/uploads/2021/12/5-FlounderToo-1024x682.jpg)
Tidal Pro rods — colored black and red — feature 30-ton Toray graphite, Fuji graphite reel seats and Fuji K-Series guides (Alconite inserts). Available in 7-foot or 7-foot-6-inch lengths, and in casting and spinning models, they cost $329.99..
Tidal rods will be available in February.
Credit: Chris Woodward / Sport Fishing
Bubba makes it a practice to build products that take anglers from water to plate. So the redfish bash last month — which netted my team more than 110 redfish — also featured a fresh-caught, fish-five-ways appetizer at dinner, a shore lunch of shrimp and prime rib and a six-course evening meal from noted chef Capt. Jamie Hough.