Suggestions for a new rod

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Jules89
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Suggestions for a new rod

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Today my cheap Walmart rod broke while fishing the Haulover Jetty. The rod seemed pretty durable, but today after hooking a pretty big fish which the other fisherman with me told me was a snook, I tightened the drag and started reeling and it snapped in half like a twig. In the upcoming day or two I hope to go rod hunting. Can anyone make a suggestion or two?

snapperfanatic18
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Re: Suggestions for a new rod

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Depends on your price range and type of reel.

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krash
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Re: Suggestions for a new rod

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Sounds like you are rough on the equipment, go back to Walmart and upgrade to an Ugly Stick.
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tears143
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Re: Suggestions for a new rod

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jack calico

Rathian
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Re: Suggestions for a new rod

Post by Rathian »

I use 7' rods for table fish and 10-12' for drum, sharks, blues, etc. You can get a couple Ugly Sticks and use the Shakespeare reel that comes on the combos for a couple of years then stick a $75-100 reel on it and use it forever. The Penn Battle combos are nice too, only knock I have is they're one piece, which is better just harder to transport. A nice sized spinning or casting reel on a 10-12' rod for bigger fish is all you need. Don't get an Ugly Stick for that, I'd get a nice graphite rod. We don't have multiple sandbars so you don't need long 10'+ table fish rods like some areas use.

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kblue
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Re: Suggestions for a new rod

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krash wrote:Sounds like you are rough on the equipment.
Yes, I broke another rod at the same location...

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Kingofthesea
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Re: Suggestions for a new rod

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Blue....can you name any pier or jetty that you fish that you haven't broken one of your homemade chop stix? Still high sticking or have you perfected that pendulum swing crap you were yammering about?
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kblue
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Re: Suggestions for a new rod

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Kingofthesea wrote:Blue....can you name any pier or jetty that you fish that you haven't broken one of your homemade chop stix? Still high sticking or have you perfected that pendulum swing crap you were yammering about?
...just hard to be someone who I am not... (Rare was already all over me for this)... Just can't making enough rods to keep things up...


BTW, I need to revisit that pendulum swing crap once ribbon fish are gone...

Chasinpoons
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Re: Suggestions for a new rod

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Saragosa 5000 - terramar rod MH- can catch pretty much anything inshore and some offshore. I have the 5000 and 8000 Saragosa. They are a work horse

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