Thread: Ultralight Spinning Rods

jry2598, how do you like your Daiwa Gekkabijin? Did you get one of the mebaru or ajing rods?

Originally Posted by Chris Stewart

jry2598, how do you like your Daiwa Gekkabijin? Did you get one of the mebaru or ajing rods?

I never had the chance to fish it. Felt awesome like my Major Craft Skyroad. My best friend always wanted one so I gave it to him for his birthday. As he describe it, is that he never fish and ultralight so responsive and lightweight that had a backbone. I bought the tubalar tip model. I believe its was mebura but I can be wrong.

The Gekkabijin MX and MX Ajing are a great bang for the buck if you can still get them.



Regards

Originally Posted by BluegillHunter

I use the small Pflueger President reels.

Nice reels . Lot of folks prefer them . The smaller ones are actually a little lighter than a 500 series Shimano.
Let us know how it fishes for you .
I noticed when casting the 1/64 Trout Magnet ( and I've been casting them a lot lately ) I get max distance by leaving a couple feet of line out . It helps load the tip of the Rod . Just have to keep an eye on your back cast Gillchaser

I like the St Croix "Panfish Series" rods. They have the modern micro guides, and use high modulus graphite.

Not too expensive, around a hundred bucks. And I simply love the Shimano CI4 ML reels. A couple hundred bucks, but worth every penny.

The "secret" of catching lots of fish is really the line! The very best is "Nanofil" ----- 4 lb Nanofil is a smaller diameter than any 2 lb mono! And no memory and it will never break or have any memory! What in the world could be better?

I'm using a St Croix 2SW70LM custom made with bait casting reel seat and spiral wrapped guides. I guess I like them I have 4 that I use regularly and a blank on the shelf that I have not gotten around to building yet. The secret to making them extremely sensitive is the graphite arbors in the reel seat and expanding glue to remove all voids in the reel seat cavity. I've never given up my secret to why my rods are so sensitive before but I don't have to worry about any commercial rod builder copying it because it takes 12 hours just to glue the reel seat to the rod let alone the rest of building it. If turning a profit was the first concern it couldn't be done. I have caught numerous over 5 pound fish using these rods on #2 line. They have enough back bone to set the hook and enough action to land a large fish if one should happen to invade your panfish area.

The same blank makes a fine spinning rod.

I have a couple St. Croix elite 6' in "light action" not ultralight. They are fantastic, because even though I've been an ultralight guy for 30 years, I prefer a fairly stiff tip when it comes to feel. I do a lot of ultra light jig casting and ultralight drop shot fishing.

A 7' Browning airstream is my next favorite.