Rod Action/Power Rating effect on Hook setting
Spent yesterday fishing for blue gill/sunfish with a Daiwa Presso ST 53XUL-4 travel rod(slow action) and the Abu Garcia Carabus Nano CNA-602XULS MGS (faster than the Presso).
While fishing initially I seemed to be missing more hook ups on the Presso ST. I’ve gotten into the habit of just reeling fast on a bite. I missed several hits, and had a couple fish come off while reeling them to the boat with that technique. I tried to adapt by doing a sweeping motion to help with the hook set.
I’m thinking that the action of the rod is taking up at least some of the force that a faster action rod imparts to setting the hook. With a slow action rod, I’m wondering if a higher power rod (like an UL) would be able to hook up better than the XUL rod.
Thoughts, opinions and wild guesses Welcome.