What is your favorite pole?

[Tim The Lippa Rippa Mon]

Though I really respect all of the top notched angler's and their reccomendations on here, it is really unfortunate that most haven't even checked out the new Sheriff's in Town - the OutLaw Crappie Poles. I'm not gonna knock anyone else's rods, but I will challenge you to do a side by side comparison for yourself. Outlaw is going to win, hands down. You might pay a few bucks more, but what price is total satisfaction worth to you? If anyone is interested in seeing some, just drop me a PM. I get around quite a bit.

Full baskets to ya, no matter what you have in your hands! <,"}/>{ Rippa

[TAE73]

BPS Micro lites, 6' to 7' rods

[PIGINTHEPIGPEN]

I love my 12' Sam Heaton Super Sensitive and my Wally marshall 9' pro has been nothing but good to me. If I had to pick my favorite pole though. I would have to pick my BROWNING 10' 6'' Noodle rod out of the 6 Rivers series

[Indy-Travis]

I have used some Outlaw, WM, B-n-M, Silstar, and HTs, and my favorite is my older 10' HT Crappie Commander. I bought it several years ago, and can no longer find the style, or I would buy several more. It is a light, sensitive type similar to the B-n-M, but not as "breaky"

[blankace]

For casting jigs, I have found none better than my little Shakespeare Micro Graphites. I have been landing more large crappie,with a lot fewer " ripoffs"!

[Stingrayg4]

Not sure I've ever understood the benefit of fishing with those long poles. My favorite pole (embarassed to say that I'm not even sure of the brand) is a short (maybe 6 1/2 feet) ultra light rod with a Shimano spinner on it. I love that rod, you can feel every twitch on it. I like it lot more than I like my longer poles. So those of you who fish with 10 & 12 foot crappie poles, what's the advantage to that?

-S

[Indy-Travis]

I like the longer poles, because I mostly like to fish vertical cover, and can do so more precisely tightline fashion, or with short flips. The longer poles allow me to keep the boat farther from the cover I am fishing. I also like to avoid slip bobbers, and much weight on the line, so the longer poles allow me to use Thill fixed position floats matched to the weight of my small jigs, and still fish reletively deep. That is the main reason I like the longer ones.

[GABoy]

Not sure I've ever understood the benefit of fishing with those long poles. My favorite pole (embarassed to say that I'm not even sure of the brand) is a short (maybe 6 1/2 feet) ultra light rod with a Shimano spinner on it. I love that rod, you can feel every twitch on it. I like it lot more than I like my longer poles. So those of you who fish with 10 & 12 foot crappie poles, what's the advantage to that?

-S

Depends on what type of fishing you do. If you are trolling there really isn't any other way to get a lot of rods out the front and back of the boat without using a pretty big spread of poles. Out the back is anything from a 5.5 fter to a 7 fter and out the front we usually have 10, 12, 14, and 16 fters. Just making sure we have enough distance between the baits to avoid lines getting tangled.

[Stingrayg4]

Ah, well I rarely fish with more than two at a time. Three is pretty much max for me.

-S