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Location: Waconia, MN | Just wondering who out there is still using shorter rods like 7 ft or less and what do you use them for? I have a 6' 6" avid but rarely find time to use it anymore. |
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Location: South-Central VA | I use my 7' for the Rapala Subwalks. I prefer a shorter rod for jerkbaits.
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | I use a 6'10" rod for my Weagles and Wabulls. I use a 7' rod for my Spinnerbaits. |
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Location: Smith Creek | I bring mine out of hibernation for live bait and river fishing. |
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| jerkbaits 6'6", and use a 7'6" MH St Croix for smaller bucktails and spinners. Not every lure needs a 9' XXH rod. |
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| i use my 6 footer for suicks i can not work them the same with longer rods I feel like i have more control over the bait |
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Location: Northern Wisconsin | I will use my 6'8" xh compre for jerk baits sometimes. |
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Location: Probably Minnesota that time... | I use 6' - 6'-3" rods for all walk the dog-topwater and gliders. I think the longer rods are better for hooking and holding fish, but I cannot get the same action working the longer rod off to the side. I may try the longer rods again this year, but do like the action of the lures using downward strokes with the shorter sticks.
-Chris |
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| I use my old 6' St Croix rods for sucker fishing. They work great and you can really set a hook. |
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| For our pool demo. I find the shorter rods keep people who want to try out baits from launching them into the rafters a little less. Nothing less than an 8fter other than that, I prefer the advantage at boatside. |
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Location: SE, WI. | Still use my custom 6'9" SAGE jerk bait rod for jerkbaits and WTD baits.  |
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Location: Elk River, Minnesota | Hiya,
I am also one who likes the shorter rods for jerkbaits. I prefer a 6'-9" rod...something with a little give in the tip, but a solid backbone. Currently going to build one on a competitor blank from Thorne Bros.
Steve |
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Location: Birchwood, WI. | 6' -6'3'' rods for jerk baits.... |
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Location: Price County WI | I use a 7' Tooth Tamer for Glide Baits and top water Walk the Dog lures, I also like using it for Bobbies when fishing out of the back of my boat. |
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Location: North East PA , 20 mins from Chautauqua | I still use a 6 footer for chop baits I like to work them hard and fast with long downward pulls . I have went to a long rods for everything else but I just have to have a short rod for my style of fishing chopbaits . I have tried it and I only end up slapping the water into a froth in front of me .
Lance McFeely
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| my granddaddy uses 6 footers and 6 and a half footers every since he got into muskie fishing although he is starting to get old so he dont go nearly as much. |
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Location: Maplewood, MN | I throw all jerk baits, dive & rise and side to side, with my 6'10" Loomis. Some of the bigger/heavier gliders (Wabull) will be thrown on an 8 footer. Like others have said, I just have so much more control on a short stiff rod. With jerk baits, ypou need that control in and around weeds. I can and will use a longer rod, but in general, I stick w/the shorter rod. |
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| 7'2" for jerkbaits, glide baits, and walk-the-dog topwaters. 6'6" when I'm wading in the river. Anything longer makes it impossible to do a figure eight. |
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Location: SE Wisconsin | 6'10" for Reef Hawgs |
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Location: South East Wisconsin | 6'9" Avid rod for jerkbaits and WTD baits. |
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Posts: 283
| 6'10" for WTD baits |
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Posts: 576
Location: Germantown, WI | I like a shorter rod 6'6" to 7'0 of which i have 2 of that i use for most of my smaller topwater baits and 6" jerk baits. i'm a bit shorter at 5'8", so for me rods longer than 8' are just kind of difficult to utilize. |
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Using shorter rods..