Thread: Found my combo

Actually a few of them .
Some you may have read about my pursuit to put together the best casting combo for casting light jigs .
I went from a 1/32 ball head jig to the 1/64 jighead by Trout Magnet yesterday while fishing and noticed I picked up a few feet even with my 5’6” Daiwa Trout XUL and St Croix Premier rods .
Today I was back at it, in the driveway , tossing 1/64 Trout Magnet jig and bodies .
I decided to try my various 5’ St Croix UL rods that are labeled Ultralight Moderate. I also got out my Kastking Zephyr SFS 1000 reels loaded with 2# Floroclear.
First cast with a 5’ Premier was just over 75’ . WOW . I thought that must have been a fluke , but nope , I was able to consistently cast this combo from 72’-76’ .
Accuracy was better too .
I tried a Daiwa 1000 Team Diawa , and older but nice , lightweight reel , and my distance went down by 5-7’ . I didn’t think different reels of the same size would make that much difference, but it did .
I tried a new model 5’6” SC Triumph two piece ULF , that to me , seems more like an ULM . Paired with a newer Daiwa Fuego LT1000d and got good results of around 75’ also.
I’ve always read a longer fast action UL rod would cast further .
I think the moderate action is loading better than my longer fast action rods .
I know one thing , fighting panfish are more fun on moderate rods .
I think a USA action moderate UL is similar to a JDM XUL or SUL but doesn’t have the bend in the bottom half of the blank the JDM rods have .
Fun experiment.
Next boat trip I’ll be armed with my 5’ and 5’6” USA ultralights . I’ll be using my Kastking reels more too. They are over an ounce lighter than my 1000 size Daiwas and Shimanos .

I tried getting distance measurements on a couple of my outfits last week but had to shut it down due to the neighborhood birds. Robins, sparrows and black birds were chasing my baits through the grass as I reeled it back in. I know if I tried I could have stuck a couple of them. Them birds were hungry.