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| I have to say I'm in love with Pounders and Medussas. However, after a while it starts to hurt. Maybe it's my posture? Too much shoulder? Should I take a break? Any suggestions for casting 16oz+ rubber for hours at a time? Thanks.
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Location: new richmond, wi. & isle, mn | Let a quality rod made for big rubber do the work. I use a LT big dawg . Slow your cast down and make sure your rod loads up and you're not snap casting with your shoulder |
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Location: Oconto Falls, WI | muskymagnet - 4/10/2013 7:24 AM
I have to say I'm in love with Pounders and Medussas. However, after a while it starts to hurt. Maybe it's my posture? Too much shoulder? Should I take a break? Any suggestions for casting 16oz+ rubber for hours at a time? Thanks.
MM
Best advice...just don't do it for long hours. |
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| Like jchiggins said, let the rod tip load up and it will almost 'slingshot' the bait for you. It's more of a long, slower sweeping casting motion.
But yea.....throwing big rubber for hours at a time will beat you up no matter how you do it. |
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Location: Minnesota | What I want to see is a pounder loncher.like a trap thrower on the front of the boat to lunch your baits step on pedaland it throws your pounder for you. |
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Location: new richmond, wi. & isle, mn | muskyhunter47 - 4/10/2013 8:16 AM
What I want to see is a pounder loncher.like a trap thrower on the front of the boat to lunch your baits step on pedaland it throws your pounder for you. backslashes would be awesome  |
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Location: Smith Creek | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOoQGsw3QbM
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| Pic a rod that has a LONG butt handle on it first, grip your back hand as far back on the butt as possible then while casting with the rod behind you lower the rod towards the water so it loads up then launch it directly over your head but let the rod toss the pounder not your arms/shoulders. |
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| jchiggins - 4/10/2013 7:43 AM
Let a quality rod made for big rubber do the work. I use a LT big dawg . Slow your cast down and make sure your rod loads up and you're not snap casting with your shoulder
This is the key. Use the rod to put mechanical advantage in your favor. Or as the psycho shimano tech might say "COWBOY, YOUR TECHNIQUE SUCK! LET ROD DO WORK!" |
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| There's a lot of options to those big rubbers that kill your back. Have a look at these underwater videos at www.lureaction.com.
Cheers
//Pesca |
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Location: Denmark | muskymagnet - 4/10/2013 7:24 AM
I have to say I'm in love with Pounders and Medussas. However, after a while it starts to hurt. Maybe it's my posture? Too much shoulder? Should I take a break? Any suggestions for casting 16oz+ rubber for hours at a time? Thanks.
MM
Gym sessions will help. I did a lot last year, and was comfortable throwing Pounders, at least 8 hours a day. |
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Location: Land of the Musky | I need a program where I can just ship a TI XXH rod for guys to try. Buy it if you like it program... 
James
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Location: Oconto Falls, WI | Tackle Industries - 4/10/2013 7:15 PM
I need a program where I can just ship a TI XXH rod for guys to try. Buy it if you like it program...
James
That sounds like a good program. |
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| And a program that works! Love that rod James! |
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Location: Maplewood, MN | Tackle Industries - 4/10/2013 7:15 PM
I need a program where I can just ship a TI XXH rod for guys to try. Buy it if you like it program...
James
I like where this is going! |
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| I used a ti xh last fall for pounders. I am neither big or overly strong. I noticed a huge improvement with this rod vs my xxh rod I had previously which was really stiff. I think James nailed the action. I am building a custom on one of his blanks now. The rod really did a lot of the work for me and I threw pounders all day a few days last fall with no prob. I think it flexes perfectly for keeping fish pinned too.
That's just my opinion. Everyone has one:)
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| Work out....it's amazing the stamina and endurance you'll gain on the water if your consistently lifting and getting good workouts in! |
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| Take a break from the Pounder and cast the 2 Pounder |
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Location: Oregon | Work out as Scott suggested, it makes a huge difference. I just fish a bait until I get tired then switch to something else for awhile.............don't forget, it's supposed to be fun.
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| what he said^^^ start throwing the two pounder, once worn out from that, snap on a pounder and it will feel like a mag. Then after tiring, pop 4 advil and repeat. |
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Location: Minnesota | the 2 pounder has been out for a few years.when are they going to come out with the 3 pounder?dont know if i would cast it but trolling might be a good thing. |
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Location: Chisholm, MN | I don't recall what this cast is called but you essentially use the rod and pounder like a pendulum. Let enough line out so that the bait is hanging by your head with the rod pointed straight up. Swing the bait toward your head from front to back in one motion. The momentum of the bait going behind you will load the rod. When it's loaded, make your cast in one fluid motion. The momentum from the bait take almost all the stress out of your arms. I learned this from guides on vermilion. Hard to explain but it works very well. |
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Location: minocqua, wi. | learned a trick from Herbie last year ... it works. hang the pounder behind you all the way down to the water, yah, lots and lots of line out, then throw it. |
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| ^^^ agreed i saw ben olsen on keys outdoors awhile ago do that and it works. i usually leave line as long as my rod which is 9'. i do this with all my dawns. |
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| think of it as a catapult guys.... lay your rod over your shoulder so it is parallel to the water with a solid 6 ft of line out, you can basically be at a dead stop then in one fluid motion launch it out.
Or as Timmy said...throw something heavier than a lber, and then go back to a lber...totally different bait!! HAH!!!! |
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| I work all all the time, and have for 35 years. It's a gradual breakdown of my body from years of abuse in the weight room, martial arts, skiing, and not to mention, musky fishing. I do take Advil and seems to help temporarily. |
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| I work all all the time, and have for 35 years. It's a gradual breakdown of my body from years of abuse in the weight room, martial arts, skiing, and not to mention, musky fishing. I do take Advil and seems to help temporarily. |
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| Get a suitable weight rod with a split grip on it! This will force you to load the rod correctly |
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Location: Medford, WI | Sled........you threw a pounder??? Comeonnnn....I'll believe it when I see it! Getting the crappies yet?
As mentioned above, throw a two pounder for a while and then go back to pounder. Push-ups work wonders also...and no, not the Flintstone ones! |
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