Hey yall! Needing advice on a 7 ft or 7ft 2 shakey head rod blank. Preferably a northfork x ray and bonus points if it's one thats on sale. Rather new to building so still asking advice on which blanks. Thanks!

Colter,
Have you tried putting "shakey" in the search function, "all Dates"? Research is half this game.

A blank recommendation depends on what kind of rod power you like to fish a shaky head with. Some like an extra fast action, some, like myself, prefer a fast action. When I fish a shaky head the bait is Texas rigged. Or if I am using a shaky head with an EWG style hook, which is the style I prefer, then the bait is Texposed rigged. If you're Texposing a bait, IMO you can get away with a slightly less powerful rod. With that said, I use the same rod for both types of rigging, so I prefer the rod to have some power.

I fish shaky heads on a rod I built on a Rainshadow RX10 Eternity ETEC72M blank. As that rod sees double duty as a tube jig rod, I am building another rod for shaky heads on an MB 733 X ray blank. The CCS numbers for my blank are IP 552 grams with an AA of 76. Some might consider that an extra fast action, or a faster, fast action. Either way, the CCS numbers for my MB 733 X rays are almost identical to those for my RX10 ETEC72M. So I guess what I'm saying is .... you might want to consider an MB 733 X ray. I use jig heads anywhere from 3/16 oz up to 3/8 oz. It just depends how deep I'm fishing and how much wind their happens to be.

I use a 1/4 oz Secret Lures wide gap Tail Shaker jig head probably 75% of the time. If not that jig head, then an Owner football head.

Using braid would be the equivalent of adding “power” as well. There are a lot of variables when picking blanks. My recommendation would be the X-Ray SB724 (assuming your typical shakey head, Texas rigged).

John Santos Wrote:
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> Using braid would be the equivalent of adding
> “power” as well. There are a lot of variables
> when picking blanks. My recommendation would be
> the X-Ray SB724 (assuming your typical shakey
> head, Texas rigged).


Was going to suggest the same blank

I also have a build in process on an SB 724 X ray blank. You guys are right, the SB724 will make a dandy shaky head rod.

Colter,
Not sure how you Shakey head fish but in the area I am in many thrown them on 1/4 ounce heads and with plastic the whole combo runs about 5/8 of an ounce, we use baitcasters with 12lb flouro and fish up to 18’ of water. The preferred blanks we use are the X Ray SJ736 or the Point Blank 731MXF. I personally prefer the Point Blank .

No I didn't. I'm new to the group didn't even think of that