All-Time Favorite Bass Rod

  • boods
    Lancaster, WI
    Posts: 225
    March 8, 2009 at 8:21 pm #1321125

    Just for something to ponder about on this mighty fine day …What are some of your guys’ favorite bass rods, and what you like to throw with them?

    Even though I got for Christmas it’s my new favorite rod. St.Croix Avid 7′ Heavy Action with a Quantum Tour PT for Swimjigs! I Looove it

    ottomatica
    Lino Lakes, MN
    Posts: 1380
    March 8, 2009 at 8:24 pm #756166

    St. Croix 7′ MH Legend Elite paired with my Daiwa Zillion.

    This rod does 75% of my presentations (I have a bunch of Avids in the same power with old Curados that do the same thing).

    Brian Hoffies
    Land of 10,000 taxes, potholes & the politically correct.
    Posts: 6843
    March 8, 2009 at 9:22 pm #756187

    Back in the day I bought a couple 7′ Tony Rizzo rods. Medium Heavy. They work great for me. Whether it’s Bass or a good Pike I know the rod will handle it.

    bucketmouth1
    Lancaster, WI
    Posts: 562
    March 8, 2009 at 9:47 pm #756192

    I like the 7′ MH Fenwick HMX paired with a quantum energy PT burner reel for spinnerbaits…the feel of this rod in your hands is incredibly awesome..and the new energy reels are just smaller in profile and fit better in your hands

    DrewH
    s/w WI.
    Posts: 1404
    March 8, 2009 at 10:44 pm #756201

    Quote:

    Just for something to ponder about on this mighty fine day …What are some of your guys’ favorite bass rods, and what you like to throw with them?

    Even though I got for Christmas it’s my new favorite rod. St.Croix Avid 7′ Heavy Action with a Quantum Tour PT for Swimjigs! I Looove it

    Did you get some snow down there? I have two Cabela XML rods w/Revo STX’s and a XML spinning rod with a Sahara spinning reel. I am thinking about a St. Croix Extreme with a Garcia Reese Mdl They all do what they are suppose to do except during operator error.

    boods
    Lancaster, WI
    Posts: 225
    March 8, 2009 at 11:23 pm #756211

    Did you get some snow down there?

    Yeah, it stopped raining around 12 ish and then started to snow…its done now. we get about an inch maybe

    Bass Pundit
    8m S. of Platte/Sullivan Lakes, Minnesocold
    Posts: 1870
    March 9, 2009 at 1:49 am #756254

    My favorite Rod would have to be the St. Croix Avid Casting 7’3″ MH. I have 2 of them and I pretty much only use them for slop frogs and buzz toads although they would make a pretty good rod for pitching jigs and plastics in heavy cover as well as Carolina rigging which I pretty much never do. They no longer make this rod in the Avid so I hope I don’t break them like I did with one in the past swinging a big bass with grass into the boat.

    My second favorite rod would have to be a rod I bought just last year. The Shimano Crucial 6’10” MH X-Fast. It’s a very versatile rod and it is a blast to fight fish with.

    oldrat
    Upper Midwest
    Posts: 1531
    March 9, 2009 at 3:09 am #756274

    mine is a 5506 Skyline casting rod

    followed by a 1L old Lew’s 100% graphite spinning rod.

    I am sorry but I am old school..

    Shane Hildebrandt
    Blaine, mn
    Posts: 2921
    March 9, 2009 at 4:43 pm #756409

    I have a fenwick HMG Medium with a quantum pt, 14# mono for plastics, i use 90% of the time.

    then my next one is the same rod and reel, shallow cranking.

    shane

    BomberA
    Posts: 649
    March 10, 2009 at 12:45 am #756649

    A Powell 733CEF can and will do just about anything

    kdb
    Posts: 89
    March 10, 2009 at 5:37 pm #756926

    Quote:

    …I hope I don’t break them like I did with one in the past swinging a big bass with grass into the boat…..

    I’ve been enjoying that commercial that Bill Dance has out…where he talks about all the mistakes he’s seen anglers make and ‘break’ rods…

    His advice? ‘Don’t do that’….

    you’re welcome…

    Boone04
    Fountain city, WI
    Posts: 321
    March 10, 2009 at 11:57 pm #757089

    I picked myself up a gloomis last year and love it to death. Put the quantum burner on there and couldnt be happier with any other setup. Maybe when taxes come back we might rig another just like it.

    boods
    Lancaster, WI
    Posts: 225
    March 11, 2009 at 12:13 am #757100

    Quote:

    I picked myself up a gloomis last year and love it to death. Put the quantum burner on there and couldnt be happier with any other setup. Maybe when taxes come back we might rig another just like it.

    What model of the Loomis did you get?

    Boone04
    Fountain city, WI
    Posts: 321
    March 11, 2009 at 1:51 am #757136

    It would be considered there jig and worm series. In a 7 foot one inch rod. I personally love it I dont love the price but its the best rod for throwing jigs or worms. I can feel everything my jig comes across on the bottom.

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