Poll .......Your Favorite Fishing Rod
 

What’s your favorite fishing pole used from the boat???
even most used setup on the boat?

Weight Class
Spinning/Casting
Graphite/Composite/Glass
Guide type
Foam/Cork
Trigger grip for casting or not

This is my personal favorite .... 7' casting 10-12 lb line class, Graphite, trigger grip and foam and a whole lot of Fuji guides !! Caught everything from 10 lb Bluefish and schoolie stripers to 1 ½ lb winter flounder….
Wish I had purchased many of these blanks before they "went off into the sunset"
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Wish list ... A couple stout graphite spinners (good utility rods ) and yes the wife has already told me I have waaayyy too many to begin with [img]/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img] But we all know You can never have toooo many rods ……..
That being said also planning for some 20 or 30 lb class trolling rods [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

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[quote} and yes the wife has already told me I have waaayyy too many to begin with [img]/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img] But we all know You can never have toooo many rods ……..


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Thats just silly talk. Not only can you never have too many rods you need them in matching sets of 4. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

My all round favorite for the bay is basiclly simular. A Lami flats series with 12 lb. test in both casting and spinning. Good for the schooler stripers and taylor blues. But I have handled sharks up to 50lbs on'em.

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50lb sharks... yeah right... Wanna buy a bridge buddy...

6'6" Browning Gold Metalist with a Abu 5600C4..12lbs Cajun Red Light'n..

Did you boys figure anything out with the Vette over the weekend or just that you can only turn beer bottle caps one way?

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My favorite rods are:
1. The one that the clicker has just gone off, I just picket up and hooked a fish on.
2. The rod I just made that matches the reel I just bought.
3. The one I am about to build.
4. The one someone I invited fishing with me just picked up and asked who made that rod for you and I say “I Did”.
FellowShip [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

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Or sets of 6!

I dont own any TLD25s but alot of guys bring one on my boat and I am really finding them indespensible. At the moment we are trolling some heavy rigs for striped bass and they come into play there. I also own a few penn 320s that are pretty versitile. Someone just gave me a Shimano "charter special". I think its a model 2000. It has a lever drag and is a sweet reel. I would pitch those 320s for this baby if I had an unlimited budget.

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A Penn Special Senator 30 - 50 lb class with full Aftco rollers and a Shimano TLD25 filled to the gills with 30lb Ande mono. Never fails, marlin, dolphin, sails, wahoo, kings, grouper, snappers, tuna, you name it, this rig brings'em all in! Oh, and no fishing chair so it's all stand up!

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....hmm, only one huh?...

give me a Loomis GLX Cross Current rod with a Charlton reel on there and I'll do OK.

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Rod Slut http://www.click-smilies.de/sammlung...smiley-045.gif

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Zebco 33 50th Aniversary

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Kid's love 'em... I'm a boater, what did you expect?

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Ouch!

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SHIMANO TLD 25'S W/CUSTOM SPUN STICKS. THESE BABYS ARE WORK HORSES. THEY TAKE CARE OF ALL MY OFFSHORE

SHIMANO BAITRUNNERS W/CUSTOM SPUN STICKS. THESE LOVE CATCHING YELLOWTAILS.

PENN SS SPINNERS W/CUSTOM SPUN STICKS. GENERAL USE.

AND WHEN THE RODS & REELS FAIL, IT'S TIME TO GET YOUR TAIL WET [img]/images/graemlins/mad.gif[/img] AND GO DOWN THERE AND SNATCH THEM. I LIKE TO USE A CRESSI SUB, THERE AINT NO GETTING AWAY THEN [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

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Snoopy rod is tuff to beat! [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

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Rodney

What happened to that "Popeil Pocket Fisherman" you keep in your truck not the

"Pocket Pool" you play on Friday nights http://www.click-smilies.de/sammlung...smiley-010.gif


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Chuck
I caught my largest large mouth bass in
the 70's with a brown Popeil my grandfather
gave me. [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

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I'm a dork.

I bring my 9' conventional AllStar Surf Rod (same blank as the Breakaway 9' LDFS) with a Mag Elite, a 975 Penn, or a Calcutta 400 on it. Great for castin eels and plugs into shore or into the breakers. Can cast a 5oz jig or a big slimey eel and has huge backbone for hammering the hook home...

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My favorite is my 6'-6" custom Van Staal made conventional-Lamiglas blank, foam Fuji trigger grip reel seat, Perfection guides with a green Abu 6500 Pro Shop from Austraila and 20 lb Yo-zuri Hybrid mono. - Paul [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]

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Here we go. [img]/images/graemlins/crazy.gif[/img] I'm sure jerseygirl can beat that. [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

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And what's wrong with the Snoopy set-up?

2nd Annual Snoopy Steelhead Fishing Contest

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whichever one I've just built...or bought!

95% of the time, a 7' casting rod with a 6500 or the Penn 975 (great reel, a little heavy though), 15 or 20 mono, and now Fireline.

rockdoc

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A 7' casting rod with either a Calcutta 400 or International 965 for bait, eels, etc. I'll switch to a 7' spinning setup with a Stradic 4000 for plugging.

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Alright maybe it wasn't 50 lbs. But I've caught many 30+ on those rigs, on rattle traps no less.

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Shimano tiagra lws 50w on murry bros 50-80lb custom rods (swordfish and highspeed trolling rods)

Shimano Tld 20s and 25s on murry bros 20-50lb custom rods
(kite rods and bottom fishing rods)

spinning tackle cant go wrong with a diawa black and gold or penn spinfisher or shimano baitrunner on star rods

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John ..I Gotta laugh ... As we were out lookin for them a week ago .... we are throwing at the surf and jetty guys and they were throwing at us!! .... Grass is always greener on the other side I guess...Its much more sporting however playing in the breakers in a boat at night [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]

Yo Scott ....Does the bail ever flip mid cast on ya with that reel .... If I don’t move the “open” bail around to the hammer I can expect pluggage or metal on a very quick "return to sender" path !!!! [img]/images/graemlins/shocked.gif[/img]

Yo Rodney .... Whats up with the "picture" under your name ??? Shoplifting pictures again I see [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

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Hmmm ... Time to start building Fly rods [img]/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img]

Chuck ...Rod slut?? ...he be Big Pimpin !!! [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]

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Nope. I made literally hundreds of casts in one week last September on the Vineyard catching albies and not one bail closure. I throw 1-2 oz metal and no problems whatsoever. I've also got a Stradic 5000, no problems with that one either.

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Scott ... How old is your reel?

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Scott, what kind of rods qualify? We all have different rods for different kinds of fishing. And I don't think Robin is going to get you all of them for Christmas. [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

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I personally think that's a great choice! I'm saving one for my newborn grandson, 7 lbs, 9.6 oz's and 19 inches long. Born today at 1:06 am in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii (missed the PH anniversary by just an hour!). I'm breaking him into fishing in 1 week so I hope his mom's ready! (At least it was my son doing someone else's daughter this time.)

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CONGRATS GRAMP'S !!!!

Way to get the little guy started out on the right foot [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

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The 4000 is an '04 and the 5000 is an '02.

Botapeje - congrats on the grandson!! [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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Well I guess that just means I'll need to get a new one then [img]/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img]