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| I know all of the general benefits of longer muskie rods, but I've always been a little puzzled why you pros usually recomend longer rods for crankbaits. It seems like these hard pulling baits would be easier to manage with a rod of more moderate length like 6 to 6-10. I must be missing something. | |
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| Well since you know all of the advantages of a longer rod, that is why I want a longer rod for cranks. You can get away with using a longer rod with them so i do. If you get the right rod, they actually handle the baits much better then a shorter rod would!! Casting is much easier, and figure 8s are much easier and more efficient. For me it is a lot less work using my 7'6" now then it was using a 6'10 a couple years ago. I want an 8' now.
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| I''ve always favored short, stout rods for most of my cranks. This is probably because I feel compelled to jerk, rip, pull, twitch, snap, and anything else I can come up with to make a crankbait even more erratic. In these situations, I prefer a very fast action 6''9" rod. I picked up a new 7''6" St. Croix Premier this winter expecting it to be my deep diving crankin'' stick.... but found it isn''t exactly my dream machine. It''s great for anything that needs a straight retreive... but the softer tip makes it tough to kick out a 10" Jake, or roll over an 8" Ernie, and is seems too heavy (actual weight of the rod) for twitching easier pulling lures (even with a rod balancer). [:blackeye:]
I did find that the new Deep Diving Slammers are a perfect fit for the longer rod... allowing for easy slack line managment to make them walk the dog.... and it allows for awesome deep figure 8''s.
A longer rod is DEFINITELY not the answer to consolidating your pile of equipment, but it certainly has its time and place. Now if someone could make me a rotating horizontal rod rack that fixes to the side of my boat to eliminate the clutter of 6-8 rods, yet keeps them handy for a quick rod switch when conditions call.... I''d be one happy musky nut.
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| premature submittal hitting, sorry
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| If you are looking for a Heavy Stick for cranks (and JLong is saying the St.Croix 7'6" is too light) you might want to give a Lamiglas a try....I don't have the model # in front of me, but I have their heaviest stick and it's quickly become my choice for all my heaviest baits: big dawgs, cranks (d-raiders etc.), and even big Jakes (though I still prefer my 6'9" St.Croix if I really want to beat them up on the twitch). The rod is really costly ($240 retail, and I did get it at 1/2 price in a sale[:p] ) but mated with a 6500 series from ABU (I now use a Morrum , but it was a beauty with a TP6600CL too) it'll allow you to do deeper fig 8s and keep the fish away from the boat because of the length. Like I mentioned before I throw the Big Bull Dawg with it and like was mentioned earlier in an above post the increased length in the rod (as long as its sufficiently stiff) will really save your back and shoulders some pain throughout the day. Hope this helps.
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| FLASHBACK FRIDAY! | |
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| I use a 6'6" Aurora, with a Mitchell Spidercast reel.[:bigsmile:] | |
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Crankbait rods: Why longer?