Favorite rods

[steel24]

Scoot, could you please forwar the info on your dad's ice fishing rod..email is [email protected]

[Northlander]

Scoot is right. His dad made me a sweat rod! Cant beat the quality and price. Im going to have him make me a med/light next time. My 30" med action is a awesome spoon jigging rod.

[Fish Head]

Scoot,

email me some info as well. Looking for a 6'3" Avid Medium X-fast. Cost?

I had to edit, I forgot to include email address. [email protected]

[This message has been edited by Fish Head (edited 02-25-2004).]

[Guest]

I have compared the Avid to the G-Loomis. I ended up with the Loomis.

If you are going to buy an investment that large, I would recommend that you go to a shop that has them both and compare the two. The Loomis is lighter and has better senitivity. Dollar difference was (if I remember correctly, $20).

Again, if you are going to compare apples, then have them together to compare. I spent about 1/2 hour debating over the two rods in the store before I made my decision. I even went to the point of placing a reel, with line of both rods (same reel and line), with a light jig head tied to each (same jig head) to compare the two.

Hands down, Loomis won.......

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Let 'em go so they can grow!!!

[Northlander]

St.Croix Avid series! Best rod for the money! Hands down.

[LocalGuide]

I get all my rods out of Hagens, SD. They custom make rods for companies and do some business with people. I know they make all of scheels rods and some very nice fly rods.
They use a St. Croix blank and fuji guides/rod butt. So it is a very sensitive rod. They are my favorite rod and I pretty much wont buy anything else. But sometimes you can go to Scheels and find some of there rods on sale for a really good price. But just make sure that have fuji eyes b/c not all of them do and so some run a lot cheaper.

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AKA PikeEye 300

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[Matt Breuer]

As a St. Croix pro-staffer I can't give an un-biased opinion. However, I do have a Fenwick HMX 6' medium-light with a fast tip that I absolutely love for vert. jigging. I bought it because it was so cheap, and I wanted a stronger rod for fast ripping Spring slabs, but it's now my go-to rod for vertical jigging.

Walleye, hands down the best rod I've found is the Croix Legend Elite 6'3" medium action extra fast tip, I love this rod and it's my baby, if it's not fishing, it's sacked up!!

Muskie, probably the Avid, 7' medium-heavy.

Pannies, Avid 6' ultra-light with a fast tip.

Sorry about the long post, but this is one of my favorite subjects to discuss, great topic Chris!

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Matthew J. Breuer
Northcountry Guide Service
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[Big Ick]

I generally like to build on St. Croix's (Avid and Legend Elite) for my walleye rods. Last year I wanted to try down-shotting for walleye and went with an All Star IM10X blank. It's 6'4" and rated a fast action and extra light. The taper on the rod is good for just what it was intended, down-shoting, but I also like to use it when jigging shallow with light tackle.