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Location: South Portsmouth, KY | Hey all. Has any one used the Monster Mag Rod yet( the one thats rated to 40oz)? How do you like it and is it very heavy? Is it to stiff to get a good hookset? I have been looking at either the 9ft Moster Mag rod (10-40oz) and the 9ft Super Mag rod. Which one do ya think i should get. I would be using the rod for mag dawgs, pounder dawgs, double 10 blades and maybe the biggest bulldawg that they make. Thanks for any info!
Edited by muskie_man 7/3/2007 9:38 PM
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Location: South Portsmouth, KY | Ok then, has anybody had any experience with the 9ft Super Mag Rod? Does it get end heavy with a big bait on it? thanks! |
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Location: South Portsmouth, KY | There got to be somebody out there using these rods? Any info is appreciated! |
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Location: The Sportsman, home, or out on the water | Love the heck out of my 7-6 super mag rod. Been a Croix fan all of my musky carreer, but this rod rocks. |
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| There is a definite niche that needed to be filled for some of the lures that we use now. The days of the pool cue are over.
As far as the heaviness of the rod, the longer they get, along with a stiffer action, you are going to add weight to the front end of the rod. It's simple physics. The balance point is two feet out in front of the reel, not like the old days where guys would put reels on rods and try to keep the pivot point somewhere on the reel seat.
Get rod balancers. Bass Pro Shops rod balancers adorn all of my rods. From walleye to muskie, it's less fatigueing to use a properly balanced rod.
Call me crazy.....you won't be the first.....but I have sawn the butt cap off of some very expensive rods, and then epoxied 'lead putty'....available at www.golfsmith.com......inside the butt section of several rods in order to get them balanced properly.
Take your rod, hang a lure from the front eye, attach the reel, and then start adding weight to the butt. I use bell sinkers hanging from a shower curtain clip to get an idea of how much weight it will take. The Bass Pro Shops rod balancers usually are heavy enough to do the trick, but if they don't add enough weight, at least they will add enough to help. If you want to get precise, it's not hard to use a hack saw to cut off the butt section of the rod.....VOIDING THE WARRANTY....and then simply apply some Devcon 2-ton epoxy to the inside of the blank a little at a time, and either add lead putty (small diameter) or egg sinkers that will fit. Reattach the sawn-off section and let the rod stand straight up and down all night, then trim the over flow and add the BPS rod balancer. Besides balancing the rod, it hides the scars from sawing.
Like I said, I have balancers on all of my rods. The difference is incredible if you are throwing heavy lures or lures that have lots of resistance. I think every rod should come with a threaded butt section so you can add weight to balance it.
I've seen several guys putting BPS balancers on their rods after just one outing with me.
Yes, they make that much of a difference. No more arm, wrist, elbow, shoulder fatigue at the end of the day. On jigging/rigging rods, the sensitivity is also increased tremendously. |
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