Thread: McIntosh visit

Nice catches

Thanks for the photos, gill. You had a nice trip out.
Bob

Congrats on your catch. I’m just the opposite on the short rods. I do not particularly like using them from a boat. I have a number of very nice ones and when I bought them I was wade fishing tree lined banks. After my move I came to the conclusion that my wade fishing days are over. Of course I will try them in my new boat when it is ready. It is going to fish different than my old boat. As you observed I did feel more control with the short rods when hooking into larger trout.

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Originally Posted by Alphahawk

Congrats on your catch. I’m just the opposite on the short rods. I do not particularly like using them from a boat. I have a number of very nice ones and when I bought them I was wade fishing tree lined banks. After my move I came to the conclusion that my wade fishing days are over. Of course I will try them in my new boat when it is ready. It is going to fish different than my old boat. As you observed I did feel more control with the short rods when hooking into larger trout.

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I can understand your rod preference from the boats you use. But there's boats and there's boats. My little canoe doesn't provide a lot of space for longer rods. No doubt some folks are less uncoordinated than me and use longer rods from a canoe. My UL's are all 5'6" or less. It is interesting to read on here about the different perspectives in rod, reel and line choice especially among the UL fans.

Originally Posted by UpstateSC_Bill

I can understand your rod preference from the boats you use. But there's boats and there's boats. My little canoe doesn't provide a lot of space for longer rods. No doubt some folks are less uncoordinated than me and use longer rods from a canoe. My UL's are all 5'6" or less. It is interesting to read on here about the different perspectives in rod, reel and line choice especially among the UL fans.

Most of my fishing is from the banks , but when I do take my boat , it’s an Alumacraft 1436 , and my seats are mounted directly to the boat’s bench seat , so I sit inside the boat and there’s not a lot of space from the seat to the gunnels.
Longs rods make it more difficult to land fish .
Also I find I don’t need to make long casts when fishing out of my boat , even though my shorter rods have proven to cast just as far or farther with light lures . Accuracy is more important.
I like rods between 5-5’ 8” long with the sweet spot being a 5’6” .

And I kinda fit in there also with the short rods. I use a lot of 5’ and 5’6” rods. My recent builds of 6 and 6’6” have changed my mind some. The 6’ is just as sweet as my 5’6” and the sensitivity right there too. But the 6’6” I have are all different. The browning is the softest rated UL and has some real big guides. Casting lures like a beetle spin or rooster tail is good but the softer action makes tight quarters rough. The build has more in the middle and so behaves nice, I can even shoot with it. The tss is rated light and is lighter, firmer and more responsive than any other rod. I only fish from the boat, a 1648, and carry many rods so I guess it’s an apples/oranges thing. If I had to take one right now it would be the six foot build, but the Pfenix isn’t done yet. More news when it’s done. That tss may even make it to the coast one day.