Thread: JDM rods relating to Panfish

Originally Posted by FishSolidATL

Hi everyone, I haven’t posted in a while but I am still reading your messages on this forum. I’m dropping a few line to let you know that I ordered the shimano soare CI4+ Ajing S408UL-S 4’8” rod for small creek fishing. I am going to pair it with my soare CI14+ 500S reel spooled with 2.3 lb ester with a 2 lb fluoro leader. My JDM jigs and spoons for this rod are in the 0.2-1.5g ... anyway I purchased it from the eBay seller Japonicano (matthew0408) last Sunday and it was already at my door today when I got home from work. It was unbelievably fast from Japan considering the global situation etc. I will post more pictures once everything is setup.

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Be curious as well to hear how you like it. That is a truly short rod.....

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Ok first impression is that the soare combo reel plus rod is extremely light. My scale indicates 6.7 oz. Also very stiff rod. I’ll take it on a small stream tomorrow morning to experience the action. Randy I know that 4’8 is very short but some of these north Georgia stream are so tiny and overgrown that it feels like a perfect length especially with some of the hiking involved at times.


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Originally Posted by s_v

Congrats, that's the lightest/ smallest ajing set-up among the Shimano offerings. I've been eyeing Matthew0408 for a while, do they have a standalone web-based store or did you buy from eBay? I'd also be very curious to know how that 408 works on the lower end of the lure weights.

Bought it from EBay and this seller had 10% off special on it for a total of 279 including shipping. At the time it was around 350 on Digitaka so I thought it was a good deal


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Very nice. I have a lower grade Soare Ajing (SS) and it is also feels quite stiff in hand, but it is rated as SUL and the action seems different when fighting the fish. I absolutely love my rod for working jig heads at the higher end of the lure rating when going after small fish – it bends tremendously during the fight. I think that latter point is the reason for the SUL rating on my rod, not due to the optimal lure weight rating.

Put the pedal to the metal on the new Evergreen Limber Tip SS today, kinda. I was prowling for crappie using my livescope, and the wind was blowing hard, spitting rain. I only had a few hours. I found a school off a point and started throwing a trout magnet. Changed colors, finally got a 1.2 lb bass on a pink lemonade color; it was a great fight, and the LTSS was bent almost double.

The crappie would not bite, so I looked for another school. Found some, mad a cast with a Bobby Garland blue ice on a Daiwa 1.5 jig. WHAM. Uh oh, that ain't no crappie. All I could do was hold on and try to steer the fish away from the anchor rope, having 2 lb test Gamma Panfish on there. Five minutes and a couple of leaps later, I had a 3.0 lb bass in the net. Took a pic and chunked it back.I would say that was too much fish for the LTSS, the Tict Rockin Power would have done better.

Anyway, I did find some crappie, and they started hitting a Bobby Garland Itty Bitty Swim-R in monkey milk. Only the tiny bait worked, but all the fish, except for a hog that got off, were 8" - 9". I caught about a dozen, and had enough of the high wind and drizzle. The LTSS definitely is a good crappie and bream rod. Still have to take it to the river and catch some trout.

Originally Posted by FishSolidATL

Ok first impression is that the soare combo reel plus rod is extremely light. My scale indicates 6.7 oz. Also very stiff rod. I’ll take it on a small stream tomorrow morning to experience the action. Randy I know that 4’8 is very short but some of these north Georgia stream are so tiny and overgrown that it feels like a perfect length especially with some of the hiking involved at times.


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That’s an insane setup. Sensitivity has to be off the charts with that rod. I have not gone under the 6 foot length.....yet. I used to be in love with rods in the 6’ 10” range. But since getting the 63 and 6 I am using them more often than not. For 4 years I was into kayak fishing in a big way and should have bought some short rods then.

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Originally Posted by jawjatek

Put the pedal to the metal on the new Evergreen Limber Tip SS today, kinda. I was prowling for crappie using my livescope, and the wind was blowing hard, spitting rain. I only had a few hours. I found a school off a point and started throwing a trout magnet. Changed colors, finally got a 1.2 lb bass on a pink lemonade color; it was a great fight, and the LTSS was bent almost double.

The crappie would not bite, so I looked for another school. Found some, mad a cast with a Bobby Garland blue ice on a Daiwa 1.5 jig. WHAM. Uh oh, that ain't no crappie. All I could do was hold on and try to steer the fish away from the anchor rope, having 2 lb test Gamma Panfish on there. Five minutes and a couple of leaps later, I had a 3.0 lb bass in the net. Took a pic and chunked it back.I would say that was too much fish for the LTSS, the Tict Rockin Power would have done better.

Anyway, I did find some crappie, and they started hitting a Bobby Garland Itty Bitty Swim-R in monkey milk. Only the tiny bait worked, but all the fish, except for a hog that got off, were 8" - 9". I caught about a dozen, and had enough of the high wind and drizzle. The LTSS definitely is a good crappie and bream rod. Still have to take it to the river and catch some trout.

Sounds like a fun time. I used to follow a blog out of Japan where this guy used the LT.....old model....on the bass tourneys there in waters where they had Smallies. He used micro baits to catch them and I can only assume the LT is excellent for using micro jigs.

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Neat shimano combo you got there... that will be fun on trout...

jawjatek I take it the Rockin Power is a little stiffer than the Evergreen?