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Location: oswego, il | I have found a decent use for these very short rods. Musky club pool demos. Your less likely to have a club member launch a bait into the steel rafters overhead. |
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| I started with that same 5.5" Fenwick glass that horsehunter mentioned. I paired it with a Abu 6000C initially and then a Shimano Bantam 500 when they came out.I still have all three and still use the 6000C on occasion. |
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Location: Northern Illinois | I had an Ambassadeur Ultra Mag II with a 7' Berkley Lightning Rod in the mid-late 80's I used for bass and muskies. A few years later, the first dedicated muskie rod was a 7'6" G Loomis, and the reel was an Abu Garcia Morrum M6600CL. I still have the reel. |
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| Smell_Esox - 3/4/2021 10:24 AM
Cabelas Fish Eagle blank, 6' 2" with a silver 5500. Made it myself. Then I bought the 7' 6" blank and made that one and put a 6500 on that one.
Howdy,
Same here, except I bought mine. 25 years later I still use them for pike fly-ins and for friends to have a combo to use and abuse.
Take care,
Ruddiger |
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| Related to this, is it just faulty memory or did the Dacron line we all used back in the day have a short life span? |
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Location: Hayward, Wisconsin | My first serious outfit was a 5' Heddon Pal solid glass rod and a Pflueger Supreme reel loaded with 30# test nylon Cortland Camoflage line (had to retie every two hours or so). I also remember my dad using older "stuff", i.e. a 4 1/2 foot steel Gep rod and a Shakespeare President reel and a Pflueger Rocket reel.
Remember breaking 3 of the offset handle Heddon Pal rods just casting (pot metal handles). Love today's "stuff"! |
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| North of 8 - 3/5/2021 10:19 AM
Related to this, is it just faulty memory or did the Dacron line we all used back in the day have a short life span? Your right. After about two to three hrs. of casting, the line would start to appear frayed near the leader. Poor abrasion resistance, but it was low stretch and back in its day put many trophy fish in the boat. But that's all we had, until the copolymers. Kdawg |
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Location: oswego, il | kdawg - 3/5/2021 12:29 PM
North of 8 - 3/5/2021 10:19 AM
Related to this, is it just faulty memory or did the Dacron line we all used back in the day have a short life span? Your right. After about two to three hrs. of casting, the line would start to appear frayed near the leader. Poor abrasion resistance, but it was low stretch and back in its day put many trophy fish in the boat. But that's all we had, until the copolymers. Kdawg
It also eventually rotted, became brittle and not was very wet! |
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| Musky Mojo ; 8 ' with Daiwa Lexa 400 high gear |
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| Built the Cabelas rods back in the late 80s and we spooled them up with Stren Prime because that's what Joe Bucher was pushing at the time. LOL. It actually wasn't terrible for stretch, but then we switched to dacron. |
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Location: Canada | 7' Conolon and a 6500 |
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| It was 1992 -93 at the Chicago musky expo at kane county fair grounds.
7' custom glooms with a calcutta 400. Had to wait for two months for the rod.
I still use the reel to this day, granted it's at Mat"s right now getting rebuilt for the third time.
And the rod is hanging on the wall. |
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Location: SW Ohio | A Berkley bass flipping stick with Shimano Bantam bait caster reel. Then changed "up" to a BPS musky rod and an AG 5500 round reel. |
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| It was 1982. The pole was a South Bend 6'4" Heavy Tony Rizzo model. Abu Garcia 5500 reel. I fished primarily 6" Black Suicks, Mepps bucktails and Black/Red Hawg Wobbler. I still have all of them. |
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Location: Northwest Chicago Burbs | ghoti - 3/4/2021 10:32 AM
5 foot Husky Cisco Kid glass rod paired with a Pflueger Supreme. Still have the combo hanging on the wall. Guess I've been 'stamped'.
5' 1954 St. Croix and a Phlueger Supreme circa 1940. |
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| A pool stick South Bend Rizzo and a 5000 series Abu. Around '83. |
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Location: Warroad, Mn | Fenwick PLP56 with a 5000 Garcia. 5'6" two piece fiberglass! I still have it some where. Sounds like other folks had the same rod. Caught my first muskie with it! |
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| Daiwa Millionaire with a 5'6" rod. Still have the reel, the rod broke off above the handle after a few years. |
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Location: E. Tenn | Esoxrox - 3/7/2021 9:29 PM
Daiwa Millionaire with a 5'6" rod.
Caught my biggest chinook, chunking a Lil Cleo from the Michigan City breakwater in '81. Same setup, spooled with 27# Cortland dacron, and a mono leader.
Like you I still have the reel. |
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Location: Plover, WI | Berkley Technique 6'4" H rod with a Quantum 1421 MG spooled with Dupont Magnum 14/40 oval mono...
Still have both the rod and reel
Edited by c44hmusky 3/8/2021 6:43 PM
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Location: Central Illinois | Mid 70's put together my first outfit. Bought an ABU6000 from Gibson's sporting goods in Bloomington IL. At another shop found a boat rod (musky tackle was non existent in central Illinois at the time) - cut the handle down (it was like 20' long) - filled the reel with 28lb Cortland musky line - thought I was in knee high clover. Still have the Abu and the box it came in. |
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Location: Oregon, WI | The 'Pete Mania' combo from Bass Pro. They lasted years and were pretty bullet prof but when the reel did break and I sent them in for repair to them, they always just sent me a 'new/refurbished' one. I still have 4 of those combos. Two in high ratio and two in the low ratio. |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | I remember when the Lews Speed Spool was released. Shag Shahid got me one after handing me one at a Merc National tournament. I tossed a practice plug with complete amazement. Can't remember the rod it went on but eventually, it ended up on a boron rod, I believe it was a Browning. I caught a ton of fish on that outfit. My first casting reel was an Abu 5000, that one was on an Abu rod as well. I think I got that for my 15th birthday about 54 years ago. |
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Location: Elk River, Minnesota | When I first started casting for muskies, it was on an old fiberglass two-piece rod from the 60's paired with a green Johnson Century Spin cast reel.
My first purchased rod was the good old Eagle claw 5' - 6" yellow with blue foam handle. It was the first 2-handed casting rod I owned. Paired that with an ambassadeur 5000. Still have the reel yet today, but the rod is long gone.
Used Dacron to start...I think 40 pound, but when berkeley cofilament came out, I switched to that for a while before going on to mason spectra.
Oh how times have changed.... |
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Location: oswego, il | My first rod at 5 years old was a zebco 202 combo. Caught my first pike on it on a tiny lake right next to woman lake in minnesota. Caught it on a mepps minnow which was my very first lure. My very first baitcaster was a 5000 with 12lb mono and a pistol grip 5'6" graphite Garcia bass rod. No palming plate. It was alot of money for a paperboy over 100 bucks for the combo. |
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| I bought a Pflueger Supreme reel on a 5' 6" steel rod at a yard sale Put dacron line on it Direct drive and I lost alot of hide off my knuckles with that thing. Upgraded the next year to a 6' Eagle Claw snagger special with a 5500 Abu on it You could either fish with that rod or shoot pool it was so stiff
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| Fished with a old glass Bass rod I found in in my grandpa's garage and put my grandma's old red Ambassadeur 5000 with some old black line on the reel for a couple weeks then in the middle of August Crossroads in Eagle River (Crossroads and Spiess were the tackle places in Eagle river WI in 1977) then I bought a old glass 5' 6" ish pool cue type rod with wooden handles for 16 dollars caught my first Northern and Muskie on this rod. |
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Location: Mississippi | Started in mid 80's with 2 - St Croix Premier 6'2" H, 2- St Croix Premier 6'6" MH all with silver Garcia 6500C lined with 36lbs Dacron line and 2- St Croix Premier 6' H spinning with 2- Shimano 500AX spinning reels spooled with mono. Still have them all to this day. |
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| Diawa Millionaire reel with a 5'5" Brule fiberglass rod and had 36# dacron on it. This was in 1980. I was 15 at the time and I went to practice cast in the backyard and got a backlash that ended up getting wrapped around the telephone lines about 40 feet up that ran through our backyard. So much for the first spool of line! I had to cut it off and the line was wrapped on the phone lines for a couple of years. |
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Location: Central Pennsylvania | This was a mere two and a half years ago, musky innovations bulldawg predator H and a calcutta 400b spooled up with 80lb powerpro. |
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