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Fun with Abu Garcia Diplomat Extreme 6' 2" UL!
I have not posted much lately but have been fishing right along. It has mostly been hit and miss....if I don't catch a 100 fish I think it is a bad day...LOL. The fish finally seem to be congregating in the dead lock...but it is not yet what it will get to...which is where the grates will have literally thousands of bluegill in them for about 3 weeks straight...and then they will leave and not be back until spring. Today I got 100 fish in 4 hours....half of them crappie and the other half bluegill. The bluegill were mostly 8 inch fish...chunky with broad shoulders but the bigger ones are yet to show up. They will be about the 8 inch mark also but will have more girth to them. The crappie were all at the 11-12.5 inch mark. It was a whole lot of fun on the Diplomat Extreme. Probably the most fun rod out of all my area trout rods....that even includes the XUL and SUL models. I have said it before but this rod is all about the tip. The fish really do hook themselves as Abu Garcia stated..of course they were talking about trout but it works for bluegill and crappie also. You will feel a slight tension in the tip as it bends and the fish is hooked. There is no way I can describe just how delicate and soft the tip on this rod is. In about 2 weeks trout should be stocked below Normandy Dam...really looking forward to testing the rod out on some trout. In all likelihood this will be my fun go to rod come spring for bedding Gills and shell crackers. I used a Sow Bug Trout Magnet today on a Daiwa Gekkabijin 1.5 gram jig head with a #8 hook. The reel was the Revo MGX Theta spooled with the Varivas 2.# test Ester mono.
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