Any Suggestions? Looking for glass and composite.
Any recs for a 7' eel rod?

I use a diawa sealine.

IMO can't beat a 6'6 or7' Penn Slammer for the money. Great conventional rod for casting chunks. Put a 310,320,330 GTI or a Shimano TLD Star or level and your all set.

Jon

the 6'6" penn slammer 20-40 is one of my favorite boat rods; hands down.. over the years we have caught sharks, bass bluefish and blackfish on these rods.. great value..
IMHO the penn powersticks make a nice eeling rod; plenty of backbone and a fast tip;

I third the Penn Rods. I have several, not one over $50, and all perform. Conventional and Spinning.

_Z_

Actually, I was wondering about some custom sticks, Lami, Seeker, Calstar, Gusa.... I'd like to wrap a few over the winter
Thanks

i got a few custom acid wrapped forgrips. i'll let you know the specs tonight.
7' conventional. spiral wrapped. with a shimano torium 20 on them.
best boat rods i've ever laid hands on :love:
chunking/livelining/diamond jigging,,i even cod jig with them..

The only customs I have on my boat are my fluke rods, sorry I can't be of more help. You just need so many different rods on the boat that I try to find good inexpensive rods like the Penns for most of the stuff. Jiggin, spinnin poopers/tins to blues, eelin, trollin, chunkin, livebaitn, scuppin, tuna, flukin, etc....., and usually you want at least 2 of each, preferably 4!!! My wife thinks I have too many, little does she know I need about 8 more...

_Z_

The only customs I have on my boat are my fluke rods, sorry I can't be of more help. You just need so many different rods on the boat that I try to find good inexpensive rods like the Penns for most of the stuff. Jiggin, spinnin poopers/tins to blues, eelin, trollin, chunkin, livebaitn, scuppin, tuna, flukin, etc....., and usually you want at least 2 of each, preferably 4!!! My wife thinks I have too many, little does she know I need about 8 more...

_Z_
amen brother

Hum, surprising. For another $25 over a Slammer you can build yourself most basic custom boat rods, I figured alot of guys would be doing it for their personal sticks

Krispy,

The one suggestion I have is to stay with all fiberglass blanks. Like the Lami e glass series. I have broke some off the shelf composites over the years like a Kunnan I had that I really liked :bc: . The glass can take a beating and still perform. I only have one custom and I didn't build it but it is a lami blank 6' wire line rod. I believe it was cut down from something like a BT??7S....the 7 foot slow action boat rod blank which is the staple of jigging rods.

You are right about cost. If you buy the lower end priced guides and blanks you can build your own for relatively short money plus time. And on the flip side you can easily spend $250 on quality higher end parts.

Either way, whatever you use if you build it yourself it becomes a thing of satisfaction. Some day I will do the same. Good Luck.

I have stockpiled a small fortune of rods and reels over the past couple of years. I buy used and look for good deals. Or half off new price. I have 4 penn longbeach rodsd with 209 levelwinds (looks like a squidder) I bought rods and reels new for 100.00 at Walmart one year. They were 50 percent off. These work great for bass and blues. I use these most of the time for chunkingl. And if they get banged up on the boat who cares. I bought a couple of used daiwa sealine's which I put 2 114 senator's. I use these for cod. I think one was 35 bucks and I bought the other in a bundle of 8 rods for 50 bucks. I like the sealline because it has a hand grip on the handle wich is nice when jigging. I cant see buying a custom chunking rod for a boat. I would save my money....but thats just my 2 cents

I don't know how to wrap rods, and unfortunately, I can't take up another hoby. Between fishing and spinning plugs, I am full. So I guess if you know how to wrap them, you can do it on the cheap, but my fluke rods cost me $130 a piece at CMS.

However, I do not cheap out on reels. IMO, this is where you gotta spend the $$$, and the more $$$$ the better the performance and longevity.

Hum, surprising. For another $25 over a Slammer you can build yourself most basic custom boat rods, I figured alot of guys would be doing it for their personal sticks


Check out the calstar blanks too, Krispy. I have a couple grafiter 700's custom built and love them. The blanks are 60-70 dollars and are graphite/glass blend. Very durable and sensitive.

Yup, I liked the 700ml I tried one night.
Also thinking about cutting down a BT963M here n' there.
BackBeach, do you know how the Lami composites like CGBT's compare in action to the Calstars?

The calstars have real fast action and are nice for active fishing like casting and bouncing jigs. Also sensitive. We used them this fall for tog, and all summer for fluke, bass, scup, etc. Let me look up the lami blank you are talking about. If it is like the rest of the lami blanks, the action is probably a bit slower.

chunking and livelining?

5 1/2 foot 30 (probably 40) year old solid glass meat stick.

it works.

for livelining, i fish a lami 1363M with 3 feet cut off the butt. Mine has corktapre and a tape on reel seat. i fish from a open starcraft thatdoesn't have rod holders so i lay the rod on the ground. it takes a beating but works great. just throw on a jigmaster and you have an awesome livelining stick, wether you troll or drift. i don't use a three way, and this might not be the ideal rod for that because it bends over fast. however, you can really lean into it.

Krispy I have three lami BT customs. BT857S had for 20 years, my favorite rod. BT857S cut down to 6' with a roller tip and carb guides for running a short wire for hitting the holes. I just finished a BT963M cut to 6'6" for plugging out of the boat, haven't caught a fish on it yet but it casts sweet. I don't think I spent over a hundred each to build them.