Thread: New bluegill rod.

Nice looking rod Randy!


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Update on rod. Have not been out in the boat since getting the rod. But have made 3 trips to a local river and JPP bank fishing in the shade. Have caught a lot of small sunfish.....a few 9 inch shell cracker and several 9 inch smallmouth. The bite detection “sensitivity” is superb. Fun factor with this rod is simply off the charts. I have a Daiwa Presso Limited 1025 on the rod spooled with Varivas 2.3# test ester mono...which is the line I currently fish with 90 percent of the time. The past 2 trips out with the rod stepped down the jig head from 1.5 gram to a 1 gram. It casts great and while I have not used a 1/2 gram jig head I feel it will handle it well. In my opinion this rod is every bit as sensitive as the much pricier Banshee Rod. In comparing it to the other 2 area trout rods I own.....the Palms Egeria and Daiwa Iprimi it simply blows them out of the water. The Palms is at the same price point but the Iprimi is 20 dollars less. I have already given the Iprimi away to a youth to get him started in UL angling but will keep the Palms as a guest rod. Major Craft has a glass rod 6’ 4” L in this line up. It is going to be much softer than the full graphite model but might be a lot of fun.....and it is my understanding that their glass model rods in this line up are just as light. For those wanting a JDM rod that is super sensitive.....a lot of fun to fish for panfish or trout with, I can’t think of a better rod out there at the price. I can see me maybe getting a couple more of these. The solid tip short rods look like they could be fun to vertical jig with. I was worried that this rod would not be sensitive enough.....I put sensitivity just about above all else. After being really disappointed with the Iprimi, and less than happy with the Palms, I was really sweating out the performance of this rod but it truly shines. While I don’t know this for sure maybe Major Craft got some feedback from customers complaining about what seemed to be a lack of number of guides and spacing on their Banshee line up.....that is certainly not a problem with this model.

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