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| I want to know what lengths and power people are using for this freaky bait.0723 |
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Location: Northwest Chicago Burbs | I have 3 (two of which are for sale btw)
8'5" Diamondback Custom (Heavy)
8' Loomis Trolling Rod (X-Heavy)
7'6" Lamiglas (Heavy)
All three will throw the med or mag dawg. |
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Location: oswego, il | I use my 7'6" st. croix MH. The G-loomis 7'7"er is a good one too. The st croix 7'6" avid heavy would make a great rod also. |
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Location: Illinois-Indiana | Bill,
I used to use my 8' Classic Cat (St. Croix) got to be too heavy throwing mag dawgs all day.
I now use an 8' St. Croix Premier with heavy action, the longer rod helps throw these big baits and is great for figure eighting.
I can't wait to get my hands on an 8' Avid heavy action.:)
Edited by Musky Fever 9/18/2003 7:56 PM
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Posts: 155
Location: Watertown MN | 0723
I use a 7'6" Diamond back, Heavy action, I wouldn't use anything shorter than this rod, the longer rod you use will help reduce fouling the leader when casting bulldawgs, I also use a 7'6" All-star Ex-heavy.
Good luck
Troyz |
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Location: Oconto Falls, WI | I use a 6'9" heavy St. Croix Legend, and a 7' heavy (big bait/livebait) Bass Pro Mania rod. To me they work fine, but maybe the shorter rod is making me miss a few. |
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Posts: 938
Location: NeverNever Lake | I perfer the All-Star 8' ex-heavy for lobbin the latex. What a rod! |
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Posts: 358
Location: London, England | I recently bought a St Croix 7'6"heavy Avid just for this task. It is absolutely superb as the slightly slower action helps throwing big rubber baits without them tumbling in mid air as much as they do on the Premier 6'9". This leads to less tangles and less wasted casts, especially with baits like the 10" castaics. The rod does come with the shorter St Croix handle strangely, which is not ideal, I have added about 4" to the handle and it now seems perfect to me. |
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Location: Woodstock, IL | St. Croix AM76HF
Costly, but it handles the bigger baits well. |
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Posts: 124
Location: Rice Lake,WI | 8'St Croix heavy cat series(great rod) or 7'2 med hvy for spring dawgs and med. Excellent if you're dawging in late Nov. The figure eight thats possible with the longer rods are sure a plus!
Jon Torok
EAT FISH TATTOO |
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| I started dawgin' it w a 6 2 avid but felt it was a bit short and lite so i went to a 7 10 g loomis ex hvy musky troller it works great once you get used to the "lag time" on the "back swing" i also like the st croix proglass 7 ft ex hev. musky (not cat, cats too soft) the pro glass and the g loomis both Load up nice avid approx 200 proglass approx 110 and g loomis (ouch) about 265 good luck,and keep a good stout leash (leader) on the end of 100 # superbraid ( i had a dog run off from 80 lb) abula bula rwolfe |
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