Awesome. Glad the rod wasn’t damaged. Good pics. Thanks for sharing
I received my new Major Craft Finetail X Mountain Stream 54UL rod late yesterday.
The package , this time , looked even worse than before .
Major. Raft must make durable rods , as both of mine survived the shipping nightmares.
I paired it up with an old Shimano Symetre 500 because I thought the green would match the green color on the lower section of the rod . Line was Daiwa J braid .
I got a chance to slim it this morning while mine had PT .
I had forty five minutes and manage to catch six gills on a black 1” Mister twister curly tail and .5g Tungsten jig .
The rod cast the light jig lije a dream and with the braid I felt every tap and every swish of the little gills tail as it put up a fight .
A pack of large green wolves patrolled the docks this morning and I think they kept the gills afraid to bite . Normally I’ve been catch double digits on my forty five minute trips .
In a couple of places , I actually could have used a shorter rod with overhanging limbs over one end of the dock . The shaded end .
I would have preferred a larger stripping guide , but unlike the Daiwa Aging rod , I didn’t have any issues casting the braid .
Maybe the location of the small stripper guide could be causing the issue. The guide on the Aging is lower on the rod .
Fun short trip .
“ The bigger the Bend , the Wider the Grin ! “
Awesome. Glad the rod wasn’t damaged. Good pics. Thanks for sharing
That’s a good looking rod and matches well with the reel. I’m patiently waiting for the 16” bass story with these glass rods. Gonna be a fun time…..
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Looks like a great rod
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Wow that box looks awful. Glad your rod came unscathed and you were able to give it a proper sliming. Thanks for sharing…
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Good looking rod
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That is one beautiful looking rod. Glad to hear is fishes as well as it looks. Nice combo with that reel.
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That is a very nice looking rod. I will admit as I (still) wait for my first Amazon Japan order to ship, seeing your box and what a rough ride it had I am even more nervous now lol.
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