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Location: Denmark | What are your favorite setup for 9"Suicks, mine is a 6,6 feet 3 oz Cortland Endurance musky, fitted with an 5500 classic reel. I prefer the gearing 1:5,3 for Suicks and Gliders, makes it easier for me to get the right timing in my pulls.
At the end I use a 0,73 mm flourocarbon leader, and 30 lb Spiderwire ultracast.
I have other rods, but the Endurance is far the best I have tried until now, light, sensitive, parabolic action and has a nice finish too.
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| 7'6" XH musky innovations rod with 5500 abu reel with 80pd power pro and most important a weighted leader from stealth to get the suick where it needs to be and add action to the bait.
Jeff Hanson
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Location: Eagan, MN | I throw the 10 not the 9, but I use an 8' Heavy Diamondback, abu 7000 w/ 80lb stealth. |
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Location: Iowa Great Lakes | Not a suick ( don't own one) but a similar bait a 9" Wades Wobbler I run on a 9' Tackle Indistries XH with a 400 Induron or a 8' H G Loomis with an old 400 Corsair... |
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Location: Des Moines IA | 8 ft Pro Edge XH, and a 6600 C4. |
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Location: Denmark | Interesting feedbacks from the new world;), seems as you guys prefer 7,6" rods or longer for jerkbaits. Actually I have tried both 8" as well as 7,6" feet Heavy rods, but the Cortland Endurance 6,6 is IMO making it easier to move the Suick with a sexy walk the dog action, as well as short aggressive dives.
Is the trend in the US/CAN moving towards longer rods for all jerkbaits, including gliders?
Cheers
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Location: Iowa Great Lakes | I run 9' for about every bait, shortest I own is an 8' |
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Location: Antigo Wi. | I use a 7'6" Black River rod to run all my jerkbaits. The rod is paired with a Shimano Corvalis 300 with 80# stealth and solid wire leader. |
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Location: Eagan, MN | Killerbug - 8/23/2010 12:44 PM
Interesting feedbacks from the new world;), seems as you guys prefer 7,6" rods or longer for jerkbaits. Actually I have tried both 8" as well as 7,6" feet Heavy rods, but the Cortland Endurance 6,6 is IMO making it easier to move the Suick with a sexy walk the dog action, as well as short aggressive dives.
Is the trend in the US/CAN moving towards longer rods for all jerkbaits, including gliders?
Cheers
Morten.
Yeah, the trend is toward longer rods, but you know how we Americans like to take everything to extremes lol. You're right, aggressive jerks are a little easier w/ a shorter stick, but I don't jerk a suick very hard, maybe just an occasional hard snap. |
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Location: Denmark |
but you know how we Americans like to take everything to extremes lol.
That's the reason we love u lol  |
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Location: Des Moines IA | Yeah I don't own a rod shorter than 8 ft either, but I am 6 foor 4, so that might have a little to do with that. I have the 8 foot pre edge because I like to cast big heavy gliders, I just happen to use it for suicks as well. |
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Location: Southern Ontario, Detroit River and Lake StClair | I used to use a 6'9" XH Okuma EVX but this past year went to a 7'6" Muskiwe Innovations XH. I like the extra lengths for my casts but wouldnt want anything longer. I'm 5'10" and my boat sits fairly low to the water so working a longer rod for jerks and gliders can be a bit of a pain. I have an Abu 6500 C3 spooled up with 80# Stealth on it for line.
Good Fishin'
Tim
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Location: Smith Creek | Don't care for a parabolic action with suicks, they seem to dart a little more with a fast or extra fast action, you can rip them through weeds more easily, and break the grip on hooksets, which is important with wood lures. They don't cast into the wind as nice but work the bait better. My setup is a St. Croix TM76XHF or AM69HF with an Abu 7000HS |
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Location: Denmark | Flambeauski - 8/24/2010 2:38 PM
Don't care for a parabolic action with suicks, they seem to dart a little more with a fast or extra fast action, you can rip them through weeds more easily, and break the grip on hooksets, which is important with wood lures. They don't cast into the wind as nice but work the bait better. My setup is a St. Croix TM76XHF or AM69HF with an Abu 7000HS
I guess u are right, I experience that when using my Shimano compre muskie 7 foot, but still I prefer the Cortland endurance rod, due to it's lightness. |
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| I am using the st croix legend jerk with a curado. I didn't throw suicks much for the last couple years. I bought this rod this summer for WTD topwaters because I fish out of a bassboat and even though I'm 6'3" an 8'6" is too long. Turns out I have fallen in love with suicks all over again. I've almost always got one on that rod. It throws 9"-12" great. It is also one of the lightest rods I own. You can throw it all day and not come home feeling sore. |
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Location: Minnesota: where it's tough to be a sportsfan! | Rod maybe up to 8' but if most of the time 6' - 7'6" is preferred. I do love the weighted leaders, it just gets it all going right from the start. I really love throwing the suick S-h-a-l-l-o-w, with the weighted leader.Talk about erractic action...! |
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| Hey killerbug.
We fish from, rental boat, most of the time they are more like bathtubes.
that's why we europeans are still using shorter rods, but no doubt that a longer rod will be better expecially with bigger baits.
I use a 8' to cast some big swimbait that I don't need to manipulate a lot during the retrieve, the first thing that surprised me, was to see how far from the boat the lure can be worked into the big "O". I caught 7 fish on the "O" last year, and one was a good one, I firmly believe the longer rod helped me.
to make a long story short, if you fish from a higher deck you appreciate a long rod, if you fish from the bottom of a small boat without any casting deck, you still use the 6,6 and do not understand the use a longer rod.
catch a big!
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Location: Denmark | @Euro-Esox
True, in general people use lower boats here. But I also think the tendency to use shorter rods in Europe is, that most Europeans do not use DC's or Swimbaits as mutch as the Americans.
Modern pike fishing over here is by most people, at least where I live, practiced with walk the dog glidebaits where a shorter rod is easier to use.
But we EU pike freaks better have to stop now before the Musky guys kick us out of here for staying off topic |
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Favorite setup for 9" Suicks