when fishing shallow shoreline cover, you guys are using 7'6" rods for throwing squarebills! http://www.bassboatcentral.com/smileys/popcorn.gif
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when fishing shallow shoreline cover, you guys are using 7'6" rods for throwing squarebills! http://www.bassboatcentral.com/smileys/popcorn.gif
Dobyns 705CB Glass is the best I've used for my custom balsas
Here's a little video clip I did in action: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LJLDKygb1A
Last year used a Loomis CBR855 GLX
Now I'm using a Loomis CBR847, Shimano Calais 100A and 20# XPS FC line.
several -
big wide wobblers around heavier cover:
Loomis CBR 756, Calais 100a, 17lb P-Line CXX
mid sized, moderate cover...
Loomis MBR 782 GLX, Chronarch 50mg, 12lb Gamma Edge FC
smaller, lighter finesse type baits
Loomis SBR 751, Conquest 50, 8lb Sunline FC
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Yep, I really like the longer rods. Everyone is different so it is probably what you get yourself the most comfortable with. I two hand roll cast unless I'm pitching/flipping and the longer rods just work better for me. I have bad wrists so I can't one arm cast anymore with any accuracy anymore. I've found that my accuracy has dialed in from a 3' diameter circle to about a softball since going to the two handed roll cast.
When I pick up the square bill, I am throwing it the same places I throw a jig and then I can also get longer casts when needed to cover flats or open water patches between cover. The longer rod is second nature to me due to pitching/flipping so much and it let's me pitch them into the same type places I pitch a jig (under docks, shade pockets, under overhangs, etc.) Just my thoughts. I have very few rods, maybe 2 or 3, that are under 7'3". I had been using the 7' 705CB Glass or 705CBMF Glass but since going to the 765CB Glass I don't see myself going back. Thinking about trying another graphite rod though after seeing Civicrr's post on the 764 RMCB Rod on a different site...
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Thinking about trying another graphite rod though after seeing Civicrr's post on the 764 RMCB Rod on a different site...
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That post over on TT got me to buy mine! http://www.bassboatcentral.com/smileys/wink.gif
VERY nice rod! http://www.bassboatcentral.com/smileys/thumbsup2.gif
Dobyns Savvy SS705C with a Daiwa Zillion spooled with Sunline Sniper FC in 15-20lb.
Curado 201d Custom 8 parabolic rod DD22's
Curado 101d Dobyns Champion 704cb
Daiwa Fuego Loomis Cbr843!
5' Ugly Stick
Mitchell 300 (original model)
Shoe strings tied together
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For close in hard cover
Curado 50E
Cumara CUC63H
Sunline Supernatural 16lb
for longer casts and medium cover
Curado 200E5
St. Croix 3C70MHM Avid custom rod by ALX rods
Sunline Supernatural 12lb
Modified by tommyc_285XL at 3:54 PM 5/24/2011
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Mitchell 300 (original model)
Shoe strings tied together
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Kistler micro mag 6'8 mh
6.4 Revo Premier
17lb mono
We do not fish much open waters...its tight quarters with cy trees, piers and cables sooo I use Kistler Z-Bone 6-3 mediums...12# Triple Fish or Viscious fluor...Pfleuger Pats (I have 12)...and I mostly power fish topwaters and cranks..one side note: put the biggest front hook u can and a #6 KVD on the back...have not lost a crank bass in 2011...now, of course, I will this weekend...lol...
Larger squarebills:
St Croix Legend Elite 7' MH
Conquest 200
#15 YZ Ultrasoft
Smaller squarebills:
St Croix LT 7' Big Cranker
Calcutta 100DC
12# YZ Ultrasoft
dobyn's 685 cb
shimano chronarch d7
15lb suffix
and all the rc's i can throw haha
For the 1.5 types I use:
G-Blanks custom 7' Glass composite Okuma Cayenne 10# FC
For the 2.5 types I use:
Apache custom 7' Okuma Cayenne 12# FC
For the 3.5 type I use:
Fish Hazards custom 8' micro guide Diawa TDA-153H (regeared to 5.1:1) 12# FC
Shimano Metanium 100 MG
Cumara 7' Hev MF
12# Floro
Dobyns 705 CB Glass.
Lew's TS1-S
14-16# Fluoro...
Dobyns 705 CB Glass
Lew's tournament pro
14 Fluoro
G-Loomis CBR781 Rod w/Shimano Calcutta 50B reel