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| hey guys, im currently looking for a rod for muskie. it has to be a st croix premiker personally because i lovee st croix rods. im looking to use mostly bucktails and shallow crankbaits and maybe some soft plastics. is there any rod action and length that can fit all of my needs? and also the rod cannot be over 8 feet due to lack of space in the truck.
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Location: Smith Creek | PM80MHF would be a good one for everything you mention minus the Mag Dawgs. If Mag Dawgs get thrown a lot you should go to the PM80HF. |
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Location: SE Wisconsin | Just my $0.02, but St. Croix could really reap the benefits of mfging a 9' H & XH in the Premier... |
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| PM80mh for the small stuff, for everything else PM80H, except the big lures.
If i were you, I would get the Heavy, you won't use any other rod in your boat once you fish with it, very versatile rod, and a pleasure to fish with.
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| Sam I agree st croix needs to get on the 9' rod crave or get left behind. The lengend 9' is a wimp. Don't get me wrong it is a great rod and will work for a lot of things. But they need to make a rod 9' in premier and legend series with atleast a 5-16 oz minimum lure rating. O yeah Stcroixallday get the pm80hf. I fished one for a while then upgraded it to a slingblade. It is a great rod for throwing small to medium lures. |
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| thanks for all the advice and im going to be using various bucktails on this rod and also how would 14' bulldawgs,10' strom kickin minnows and also suicks work on this rod? |
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Location: Smith Creek | Just fine, as long as they're 14" and 10" and not 14' and 10' 
Not sure if you guys comprehend how much it costs to ship a 9' one piece rod from Canada or the East coast, where St. Croix does a lot of their business. Shipping there is one thing, shipping them back to Wisconsin for service work makes them basicly un-serviceable. So they'd be forced to tell the customer "here's your rod, if a guide chips you're on your own" or make two piece rods and compomise the performance of the blank.
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Location: SE Wisconsin | Flambeauski, while I couldn't agree more, it doesn't seem to be stopping other rod mgf'ers.
For anyone interested, it costs $20 to ship a 9' rod. Had the unfortunate experience of shipping my MI 9' back to the mfg for replacement. While the $20 sucks, worse of all is finding a long tube, which for me took two tubes taped together... |
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Location: Land of the Musky | I charge $8 to ship a rod to Canada from the USA but it is a real pain to get one shipped back and in fact near impossible for under $80-$100.... Much easier to ship the guides or parts to Canada with instruction on how to fix the guide...
JMO
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FYI-If anyone ever needs a tube to ship a rod to a manufacturer just contact me if you are in the Midwest (NE, ND, SD, MN, WI, IL, IA). I can ship tubes for about $5 in those states with SpeeDees. These tubes would cost you about $10 with ULine. Or you can also use PVC tubes or go to a carpet store and ask for a long tube and cut it down for shipping a broken rod back to the manufacturer. Just a few ideas... |
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Location: Smith Creek | Exactly what I was saying... no problem shipping a 9' rod in the midwest, but like James said, you're asking guys from NY or Canada to spend 80 to 100 to return a rod.
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Location: Land of the Musky | FedEx in the USA is about 20-$24 if you drop the rod off at a shipping facility otherwise you will get dinggged for a pick up fee with FedEx or UPS. Bas thing with UPS is they are much harder for insurance claims vs FedEx. I suggest to ship FedEx for anything internal USA vs UPS or USPS.... If you EVER have any issues with the USPS just forget about the insurance. They will never pay or at least they have denied all claims from me over the last 6 years and make you go through about 9 months of crap to just get a big NO. That includes a rod that was literally cut in half by the USPS. Ship FedEx if its important to you. SpeeDees is middle of the road for insurance 50% of the time you will get it and 50% of the time they will say its not their fault. |
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muskie rod?