piqued my interests.  shopping for a bottom bouncing, kayak rod for salt water delicious things.   noticed they carry some interesting rods.  the bait cast surf casting for starters, and then I trip across their bass rods.  anyone see one for realz?   I have a favorite flavor of bass rods for sure.. Domo Arigatogama...(lost it)

 

just curious, but the ocean rods look really good to me.

I'm a south east coast guy. Some other brands of great salt (and bass too) rods:

Crowder

Bull bay

Fitzgerald

Falcon 

I have not. 

I've looked at, but not handled some Dark Matter rods while on vacation on Long Island. Tackle store we stopped at for me to check out had a bunch of their rods in stock, so I'm assuming they're popular up there. We've got 0 option for high end gear where I live so I was more interested in checking out the NRX+, Legend Xtremes, P5's etc 😂. They were some nice looking rods from what I saw though.

I

might have to do some “ research “.

https://www.darkmatterfishing.com/

A-Jay

They're made in China/imported by J and H Tackle in Oakdale, Long Island. They mostly make inshore saltwater rods and a handful of bass rods that I know of. I personally haven't used any but they're fairly popular with the inshore flounder/fluke fishing guys. 

1 hour ago, NYBasser said:

They're made in China/imported by J and H Tackle in Oakdale, Long Island. They mostly make inshore saltwater rods and a handful of bass rods that I know of. I personally haven't used any but they're fairly popular with the inshore flounder/fluke fishing guys. 

That explains why I saw so many, J&H is the tackle shop we stopped at. Didn't realise they were the importer for them. 

Yes, I'm familiar with them.  They're essentially an import company that uses decent blanks.  Initially they made an inshore rod called the Sloopster that was a great all around 3/8-1.5oz artificial rod and the Dark Matter OB Surf which is like a 10' Suzuki rod based off a MB model, which they did very well.  Josh from JandH was the original importer as far as I know and started connecting his YT associations/network.  John Skinner, Rich (fishaholic), EliasV and a few other guys started getting their own rod made by Dark Matter.  Now they all have some kind of rod series, especially Skinner.  Honestly I think theyre a little over priced, but they aren't bad.  Theres a great 8ft Sp/Darter rod, but it runs about $300, which isn't crazy for a good surf rod with decent components. Dark Matter somewhat reminds me of a company like Ark, just with better looking rods.  You can get them in DSG now.  I have no idea what their customer service is like, but if you buy them from Josh he's really good about standing behind products.

I'm not very familiar with slow pitch jigging and the gear, but those rods dont feel too bad.  If I were you I would check out Black Hole out of Korea.  They make some great inshore/nearshore rods in just about any kind of layout you would want and they are priced really well.  A guy on SOL used to distribute them and would put the rods to work all over the country.   

Daiwa has a new line of jigging rods and theyre supposed to be really nice.  Check out the Black Line inshore rods. 

You can say guys.  Folks lost.