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| ....it might be time to retire my 6' 3" jerkbait rod. My question to those with more experience than me is can/how I work a Suick with the long rod. I'm talking an Okuma 9'3" here. My guess is that I have to work it out to the side instead of straight in front of me. Are glide baits such as a Reef Hawg fished in the same fashion?
Bottom line is this - can I fish a Suick effectively with a long rod.
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Location: Iowa Great Lakes | I don't use suicks but use similar with a 9' rod still with a downstroke.... |
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| A nine foot rod is to long for a jerk bait rod. I wouldn't use any rod longer than 8' unless your fishing from the deck of a freightliner |
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| You can easily use a 9'3" Okuma or similar for Suicks. If you use a Suick like I do, long sweeps and not snaps, then the longer rod is fine. Just sweep to the side and not down. Working gliders is a little harder given the amount of material you have to snap (if that's how you personally work gliders). If you use a lot of wrist then a long, heavyish rod can be a beast on your wrists and forearms. I personally wouldn't hesitate to use a long rod for a Suick or other sweep-style bait, but wouldn't touch one for gliders. |
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| Yes you can work a Suick effectively with a long rod. I suggest a butt-balancer weighted to balance your outfit where you hold the rod; then you are not fighting the unbalanced weight of the rod tip. I installed a 5.5 oz balancer to my extended Big Dawg/400 TE outfit and can work any glide/pull bait with it, palming the reel and working the tip down for the most part. Long pulls and rips are done sort of sideways. I do hold the rod at rib cage level instead of belt level to compensate for the length, got used to that change in two trips. |
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Location: Land of the Musky | Since I started using longer rods 8'-9' I can not go back to the shorter jerkbait rods. Personally I love a longer rod for jerkbaits. |
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| ^agreed. I use all 9' rods and I fish jerk/glide baits like sledges and hellhounds about 85% of the time with down-jerks and they work phenomenal. The shortest rod I use is 8'6 |
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Location: Kronenwetter, WI | Just a matter of personal preference. I have an old 7-6 BPS Maina rod that I keep just for poppin' gliders and twitchers. I'm just not talented enough to get the same kind of controlled, quick-twitch action out of those kinds of baits with my 9 footers. That said, I would NEVER be without my 9 footers for bucktails, prop-tops, dawgs, and cranks. I'd say if you don't have a long stick get one and see what you think. |
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| Suicks I can work with a long rod but I have had folks tell me they use them for WTD baits like jack pots and I just can't. Any trick to that? |
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| grip the foregrip instead of palming the reel when using WTD topwater, you can down snap a 9" rod real quickley and forcefully to really get the bait moving back and forth IMO |
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"Long" Jerkbait Rods - How to?