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Location: Illinois-Indiana | What's your favorite jerk bait set up?
(Rod and Reel)
I like the 6'9" St. Croix Avid with a Calcutta 400 spooled with 80# Cortland Spectron. |
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Location: Pewaukee, Wisconsin | I use a 8ft Lamiglass with a Calcutta 400 spooled with 65# Power Pro. My rod is longer but from the front of my Ranger it works for me. I have a 7ft St. Croix with a Calcutta 400 spooled with 65# Power Pro that I also use when needed. |
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| 6'9" St. Croix, Morrum w/80# Tuffline. On the end of the line is a Reef Hawg or Suick, with a big fatty! |
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Location: Angola, IN | I got two favorites.
1.) 6'3" G-Loomis X-HVY with an Abu Garcia 6500CS Rocket
2.) 8' Lamiglas X-HVY with Calcutta 400 TE Conquest
Both are spooled with 100# Power Pro.
If I'm fishing out of a bigger boat, I like the 8'. But if I'm right on the water or I'm fishing in a boat with really high sides, the 6'3" is awesome.
Steve Hulbert |
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Location: NeverNever Lake | 6'10" Lamiglas "Hughes River" w/400 Calcutta spooled with 40# fluorocarbon and a 100# fluorocarbon leader. |
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Location: oswego, il | My 6'2" avid with a garicia 6600 tournament with 100lb power pro. Would like to get he 7'6"H avid but would like to try one first to see if I could work baits well with it. |
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| 7' Thorne Bros. custom .Loomis 8450 Saltwater blank w/SiC guides and a Calcutta 400 w/ 90lb. Ripcord Si.This rod can throw any jerkbait made and is also a great Dawg rod.Lots 'o' power! Steve |
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Location: Northwest Chicago Burbs | 8' Aurora with a 6500C4, using 80lb spectron. Will chuck an 8" shaker about 10 miles and still have sensitivity. Power to hit a fish hard, and a nice long handle so no bending like a chump to figure 8. Just moved it over from being an all-purpose rod, went from a Morrum to the 6500C4, but was chucking from baby dawgs to 10" Jakes with it last year.
Slamr |
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| 6'6" Lamiglas figure 8 special with a Morrum 6600 spooled with 80# power pro. I am 6'1" and have tried jerkbait rods up to 7'6" and keep going back to my old Lami. Really nice control. |
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Location: Lindenhurst, Illinois | I use a 6'10" Heavy Gloomis, with 100# power pro and a Abu 6500 C3 real. |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Same outfit Slamr has. |
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Location: Stevens Point, Wi. | Fig Rig Manta rod, Abu C4, 80# Tuff line, homemade single wire leaders attached to split- ringed lures. |
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| 6 foot falcon silver series,with a 251 calcutta,50 pound cortland spectron.0723 Bill Ramsey |
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Posts: 391
| seven foot st croix avid with a calcutta 400. spooled with 80lbs power pro and attached to that is a single strand .035 inch wire leader with wolverine split ring.
kly |
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| 8 ft St Croix 6600 morrum with 80 lb tuff. |
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| It would be a 6'9" St Croix, 6500C3 spooled with 50# Tiger braid with a 8" TR Twitcher on the end!! |
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Location: Far Northwest Chicago Suburb | I have two set ups for my jerk bait/glide bait fishing. For true jerk baits or pull baits I use a six-foot St. Croix Premier paired with a Penn International 900 series reel, spooled with eighty-pound Cortland Spectron. The baits I use with this setup are almost 100% Suicks, and Bobbie baits but also Burt’s, and my homemade secret pull bait.
For glide baits I use a more moderate action rod, which is the seven foot six inch St. Croix Classic Cat rod, paired with an Abu Garcia 6500 2-speed reel. The reel is spooled with 80-pound Cortland Spectron also. The glide baits that are great for this rod include: Magic Makers, Deadheads, Punishers, Reef Hawgs, Undertakers, Power Probes, Cobbs, and Eddie Baits.
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Location: Davenport, IA | I like my 7' Gapen's Far North Muskie Rod. They aren't too common but very nice. It costs the same as a st croix premier but has a lifetime warrenty. I Have a 6500C3 on this reel but will my put my 6500C4 on it if I get it repaired. I like 80 lb tuff xp and use a .045 single strand leader. This rod is really going to take the abuse because I can't seem to put it down. I find myself working lots of other baits with it just because its so light and sensitive. |
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| I use a 6'10" AllStar with a 6500 c3. This winter, I made a 7'6" on an AllStar blank that I put a 6500 on.
I don't think I would use a c4 with a jerk bait rod. I wonder if the gears would hold up... I have a c4 and tried it for burning bucktails, but it was too hard to crank, put it on the rod that I use for tubes and jigs.
Tom B |
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1. 6'3 G-Loomis with an Abu Garcia 7000 spooled with 135lb Tigerbraid.
2. 6'10 Lamiglas "Hughes River" with an Abu 7000 spooled with 135 Tigerbraid... |
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Location: Illinois-Indiana | I notice a lot of guys are using longer rods for jerk baits, is it because you sit up high in your boat or do you prefer the longer rod. I would think the longer rod would be slapping the water all day. |
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Posts: 119
Location: Sioux Narrows | 1. 6'6 loomis heavy action, with a 6500 Abu strung with 65lb spiderwire musky braid.
2. 7' St. Croix medium/heavy, with a 400 calcutta with 80 tuff line
D'arcy Finlan
Darcy's guide service
www.darcyfish.com/Musky.html |
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