Perch Rod Blanks

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Re: Perch Rod Blanks

Posted by: Skip Kerwin (---.wi.rr.com)

Date: February 21, 2005 07:23PM

Greetings Kyle,

From your subsequent posts, I see that you have built fly rods. I fish for crappies a lot and occasionally catch a few in the 12 -13" range, weighing over a pound. I use a 3S70ULF St Croix blank with spinning style guides and a spinning reel seat. The rod works great for whipping tiny jigs out a ways and handles the fish fighting just fine. The local guides and client like te rod because it is gentle enough to not rip the hook out of a crappie's soft mouth when fighting the fish. Just make sure to use a net when landing the fish so as not to put too much stress on the tip by lifting the fish into the boat. And, make sure to use enough guides to distribute the stress evenly over the top third of the rod.

I recommend this approach since flipping the 1/32 oz jigs out with a short rod does not work nearly as well. I also have som 5'6'' rods but only use them for vertical fishing and drift fishing where no casting is required. These are also built on ultralight blanks.

Just some food for thought.

Skip

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