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Originally Posted by numbskull
I agree, it is a comfortable rod to fish and very versatile. You need to slow your casting effort down with it and let it do the work. Not the best tool for tough rocks or the canal, but certainly more than adequate on occasion, and a good choice for open beachs. Will handle large fish pretty well.
Rebuilding it with light guides (I use T-LCSG's on mine) will improve it a lot....when I originally built it cone of flight with standard sized guides I hated it.
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Agreed. It is not a canal rod. I've hooked and landed 30-pound-plus fish on it in the ditch while the tide was moving, but there were times I thought I was going to be finishing up the fight with half a rod.
As I said, it's my main rod. I take it wetsuiting, along open beaches, rocky shorelines, just about anywhere but the canal, and I can't blame any lost fish on the rod's relative lightness. I straightened out a 1.5-Ounce Jetty caster on a fish with the rod in an effort to keep it out of the rocks, so it definitely has some guts to it.