Thread: We love that fishing dock

Man you are just crushing it. Life, fish, and rods... ROFL.
Kaboom

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You gotta love those solid fishing docks. Especially when they run them out to deep water like that.
You got overhead and bottom structure and the dock shadow is so often the key.
We have a number of them on the city park lakes here in Minneapolis. I find the crappies here below the bluegills sometimes at the very bottom or close even 20' deep and more. If the crappies are not at the deepest, I just move up the dock arm shallower and shallower until I find the break they are holding on. Most of our crappies are the blacks that orient more to the bottom than the whites.
On of these days I am going to take my ice fishing flasher out on one of the docks and see if it will show me just what is down there and how deep.

Originally Posted by Ketchn

the rod YES sir , i guess its 6 foot , i thought it was a 7 , when i bought it a few years ago it didnt have a reel on it .
its a pretty sweet and seems durable little rod

I am intrigued, and a little underwhelmed by my micro series. How would this compare? Is it a fast action?


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Originally Posted by Greenlawnracing

I am intrigued, and a little underwhelmed by my micro series. How would this compare? Is it a fast action?


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its very very sensitive and very limber and bends in a flat out beautiful full arch .
i have managed several pretty large specimens on it and the only mishap was me taking about an inch off the tip one time on a missed hook set and an angle iron dock . i fixed her up and she still smokes them .
one crappie was well over 2 lbs and one catfish was probably 4 or so ....if the drag is set right its a dreamy panfish rod .
its worlds different than the shakespeare micro series collection . not near as fast and zero backbone , it has trouble slinging a 1 lb fish .

Originally Posted by Ketchn

its very very sensitive and very limber and bends in a flat out beautiful full arch .
i have managed several pretty large specimens on it and the only mishap was me taking about an inch off the tip one time on a missed hook set and an angle iron dock . i fixed her up and she still smokes them .
one crappie was well over 2 lbs and one catfish was probably 4 or so ....if the drag is set right its a dreamy panfish rod .
its worlds different than the shakespeare micro series collection . not near as fast and zero backbone , it has trouble slinging a 1 lb fish .

It does have some bad reviews, most of them say it had early failure. Any legitimacy to them?

mine has been with me several years in the back seat of my truck and sure enough whipped a lot of fish . the little bit off the tip was my bad and not the rod . wouldnt handle it like i do an ugly stick though as its pretty dainty and very much like a fly rod .
heck i closed the door on its reel one time and it broke the reel handle off and didnt hurt the rod ?

Originally Posted by Greenlawnracing

It does have some bad reviews, most of them say it had early failure. Any legitimacy to them?

it should be handled much like a fly rod and not beat around , i imagine its thin walled as its very light , but to be sure it is big fun on bluegill

stupid yummy good food by the way ,just an fyi