Needed to upgrade my spin rig game for light plastics, tubes, etx. Mostly as a river and reservoir smallie rod for #6-8 fluoro and also wanted to be able to skip docks a little with this rod too. Felt like the 6’8” size would work for me.
Looked at a bunch of rods and went with the Loomis EX6 802s.
Had to get a reel for the rod and I couldn’t really decide between the Tatula LT 3000D and the LT 2500 which was what my tackle shop had in stock.
The 2500 really felt better balanced on the rod I think but the 3000D felt pretty good too. I was thinking I would try to fish more straight #6-8 fluoro on this rod for a while so I went with the 3000D size. This reel has the deep spool.
It’s a little bit lighter than the LT 3000 because of the deeper spool. I will probably never need to use all of the line on the spool and can just fill it up with some backing.
Just curious about if any of you prefer to fish Daiwa’s 2500 or 3000 reel on your light to medium spin rig plastics rods from #6-10 fluoro or even braid for any particular reason.