Dear friends,

It's already one year I begun building rods and I'm more hooked everyday.

Of course, I'm still a beginer and there is a question I want to make since I begun. There some blank families I cannot identify, as the ones I mentioned in te tittle (Steelhead/Musky/Salmon/Walleye). I think these are names of different kind of freshwater fishes but... could anyone make a short summary of main properties of these rods? I know what a salmon is, although I've neverr fished them, but I don't know the other fishes.

This may help me to find suitable blanks for other applications not commonly listed. For example, I use to have requests for 10ft spinning rods for 1/2 to 1 1/2 oz lures. Maybe one of these previously mentioned blanks could be suitable...

Thank you again for your help,


Daniel

The Steelhead/Salmon blanks would probably fall into the catagory of blanks you would want for a 10' spinning rod to handle 1/2 to 1 1/2 oz lures. Walleye rods are gonna be around 7' and are around 1/8 to 1 oz rated you usually are going to want a fast action blank that is fairly light, or at least that is my preference. Musky rods normally are around 6 1/2' to 8 ' and capable of 3/4 to 3 oz and a very heavy/fast action..


Steelhead is an Sea run Rainbow, meaning it is hatched in river/stream, migrates to the Sea(or one of the Great Lakes) then returns to the river/stream to spawn. One of the best fighting fish you are gonna catch on a pound for pound basis.

Walleye is a very is inland lake and larger river fish. Not that great fighter that a Steelhead/Salmon/Musky would be. But for most people a challenge to catch on regular basis.

Musky is a large member of the Pike family, fights like @#$%& and most people count the fish they catch in a season not how many the catch in a day. 45 to 50 inch fish or bigger or not out of the question.

I think you're better off looking at specific techniques rather than species of fish.

For some of my Walleye fishing I actually use a Salmon rod. A very light Salmon rod. And a Steelhead rod. I use rods from 6' to 8' long. It all depends on HOW you are going to go after the fish.

I don't waste my time with "labels" that get placed on blanks. I look at the blanks themselves. Length, tip and butt diameters, line and lure ratings. That is a much better description for how a blank is going to behave than a label like "Salmon".

Better to have and not need than to need and not have.

Thank you for you replies.

Matt, the point is that I can imagine that a 10 ft blankwith a butt diameter of 0.603in and a tip 7.5 size (for example a Lamiglass GSH 126 2MH) must be like an spaghetti, with a very slow action. It's under the "Graphite Steelhead, Salmon and Saltwater spinning". As Scott wrote, spinning rod I'm looking for has to have a fast action.

Of course, specification is very important, although knowing what a blank is designed for can also be helpful. And, unfortunatelly, most names used to "group" blanks (as those mentioned in the tittle) are hard to imagine for people like me.

Tha was all!

Thank you again,


Daniel