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| I know most would not even dream of musky fishing with a spinning rod outfit, but I have a lot of novices on my boat that cant cast open face reel. I'll be damned if I am going spend all day un tangling birds nests from my reels.
Have any of you had any luck with a spinning combo? What was it?
I m looking to have it used for all pupose muskie fishing including some medium- large baits.
Any advice would be helpful. |
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Location: Athens, Ohio | I use a spinning rod and reel to fish muskies. I get a hard time from people for doing so, too. I use a large Penn reel and a MH St. Croix 2-piece rod, works great for spinnerbaits, in-line spinners, and crank baits. Not quite so good on twitch baits and gliders, though, but I get better casting accuracy than I can with baitcasters.
Spool it up with 80 pound braid line, I like the old Spiderwire muskie braid since it lays well on the reel. Only concern, a lot of spinning rods have a soft tip which may prevent a good hard hookset, I may have missed a fish on LOTW last year because of that. Maybe I was just a wussy, too. m |
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| I bought my soon-to-be-divorced wife a X-tra Heavy Falcon. One piece. Great spinning rod for 'skis. |
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| abu garcia makes a large enough anti backlash reel that is perfect for someone who has never casted a baitcaster and its a good reel anyways
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Location: Minneapolis,Minnesota | I use a St Croix 7'H for twitching small cranks in the spring and for jig fishing.
I would think it would handle a small to med. size bucktail with out much problem? Probably the best bait for a newbie to be throwing in my opinion.
MY $.02
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| I've heard that the Abu Garcia anti-backlash reel has problems.
Cabelas has a bargain cave where you can buy stuff that has been returned for discount and it's full of those anti-backlash reels.
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Location: ft wayne, IN | I solely muskie fish w/ spinners and have put a few hundred skies in the boat w/ them--they are a breeze to fish with and more reliable, easier to use, less fatiguing, and more accurate overall in my opinion. I miss very few fish. There's prob 10k muskie dudes that would argue that point but they work well for me. I have experimented with an awful lot of rods and the best I have come up with are the St Croix Premier series, models PS-70-HF AND PS-66-VHF. The first is a 7 footer w/ a fast tip and heavy rod and the second is a 6'6' very heavy rod. They have stood up to any musky thus far, are lightweight, well built, and not too pricey. It is my belief that with the new superlines most of your power comes from your reel and the stiffness of your rod is of less importance. These are very sturdy rods though (but not as stiff as some of the heavier baitcasters) and can easily be used to toss magnum bulldawgs, 10 inch gliders, or small poodles!
I have had great luck with the shimano spinning reels as well---stradic for your clients and stella for yourself. I understand Daiwa and Okuma make nice spinners also.
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Location: oswego, il | I have seen BRAINSX cast a deadhead glider with those dpinning rods and catch a fish. That's a big heavy lure. He is definitley the guy to ask this question. |
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Location: ashtabula ohio | thats all i used for the first 2 years of muskeeeeing... ugly sticks are fine and tough but a bit heavy after a while but for 30 bucks you cant beat it. i used the shimanos also,sedona works fine. i still use one for soft plastics and such... |
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Location: Eagle River, Alaska | One way too solve any perception of spinning rods being to limber to have a custom rod made. You can use any casting blank you'd want to make the spinning rod....just a difference in guides. I use flyrod blanks frequently to make light action spinning rods. Granted this would cost a bit more and not be off the shelf but would let you get any rod you wanted as far as length and stiffness.
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| Go to www.stcroixrods.com, go to their saltwater series rods and check out the Tidemaster In-Shore series. Ther are lots of spinning rods to handle many muskie applications. I started out getting one to use for Creatures. I liked it so much that I picked up another to use for spinnerbaits and twitchbaits and small cranks. There are so many to choose from, and they have a nice long handle and were built to be used for large fish. I think that it is the most underrated and the most underused series in the St Croix line.
I've got Daiwa SS1600's on both rods, spooled with #65 Tuf-Line. They are great muskie catching combos.
Do yourself a favor....check 'em out!
Beav
Edited by Beaver 4/28/2004 12:16 PM
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| I have faced this problem with many non casters and found it was much simpler to give them a well adjusted casting reel with the anti backlash knob tightened properly, than to face what they could do with a spinning rod. #1 when they cast with a spinning rod they can fling alot further than they can control #2 when they wrap a loop on the reel after a cast, a common occurence with newbies, the next cast can result in a loud snap and a lure sailing for parts unknown. #3 a bucktail will twist like crazy on mono where most casting superbraids tend to resist it. #4 you do need a specialized rod to put together an outfit that really "fits" for musky fishing, and if you fish lots of cover and wood, the lack of casting control on spinning still makes it a crap shoot all the time.
Here would be my take, give them a good musky casting outfit, tighten the anti backlash down until the bait very slowly drops by gravity, and if its a heavy bait, crank it down just a little tighter. May shorten their casts but it will solve your problem and as the day goes on you can loosen it a little as they gain ability. I have done this many times and in comparing the two, spinning and casting, I see spinning as a problem, not a solution. |
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