Does HS9000 build a good baitcasting rod?
Posted by:
Marty Martin
(---.gsp.bellsouth.net) Date: January 08, 2011 05:37PM
It seems this blank usually gets built for spinning, but will it work okay for low profile baitcaster?
Re: Does HS9000 build a good baitcasting rod?
Posted by:
Tom Kirkman
(Moderator) Date: January 08, 2011 06:01PM
Yes. In fact, many if not most Hot Shot rods are casting models.
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Re: Does HS9000 build a good baitcasting rod?
Date: January 08, 2011 08:53PM
Marty,
What type of fishing to you plan on using the rod for? It is not a particularly powerful blank, but I've used them as finesse rods for bass, all built as casting rods FWIW.
TC
Thomas Cayman - AKA Robert Russell
ROBERT M. RUSSELL
KYLE TX 78640
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/27/2011 08:47PM by Moderator.
Re: Does HS9000 build a good baitcasting rod?
Posted by:
Marty Martin
(---.gsp.bellsouth.net) Date: January 08, 2011 09:05PM
It would be finesse bass and light inshore stuff. Is 1/2oz really the upper range of casting weight on a blank that heavy?
Re: Does HS9000 build a good baitcasting rod?
Posted by:
Tom Kirkman
(Moderator) Date: January 08, 2011 09:08PM
Hot Shot blanks are often powerful, but feature very light tips. which limits the casting weight range.
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Re: Does HS9000 build a good baitcasting rod?
Posted by:
Jim Gamble
(97.106.17.---) Date: January 08, 2011 11:15PM
As Tom noted, the tip is VERY light and fast. IMO, it is a blank best used with unweighted baits and small lures. It is a wonderful flats blank for sight casting to reds, bonefish, etc. IMO, the blank works best as a spinning rod due to the lower lure rating ... but it can be built either way.
Re: Does HS9000 build a good baitcasting rod?
Posted by:
Spencer Phipps
(---.war.clearwire-wmx.net) Date: January 09, 2011 12:06AM
The amount of baitcasting to spinning blanks, like Tom said is at least 10 to 1 toward casting throughout the country. I'd definitely go with a custom rod configuation down south as the factory casting models have a 14 inch rear grip for placing in a drift of jet boat's rod holders. When I used mine down in Florida a 9 or 10 inch rear grip would have been better suited.
Re: Does HS9000 build a good baitcasting rod?
Posted by:
Marty Martin
(---.gsp.bellsouth.net) Date: January 09, 2011 06:35AM
Was that 9 or 10 inches on a casting or spinning configuration?
Re: Does HS9000 build a good baitcasting rod?
Posted by:
Spencer Phipps
(---.war.clearwire-wmx.net) Date: January 09, 2011 10:18AM
Either, I hope we're talking the Loomis or MHX blank here, the Batson HS 9000 is a whole different, stouter and faster actioned blank.
The 14 inch rear grip gets in the way on the casting version if you cast more often, a 10 inch rear grip I think still works just fine in a rod holder with this light of a blank. The 14 inch grip decreases the effective length and effects casting negatively IMO. The factory version of the spinning rod had a 7 inch grip, if I remember right, which I thought didn't balance in the hand as well as it could have and didn't really improve casting over the longer 9 or even 10 inch grip.
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