Thread: Bream & Crappie Rod

This one 6 and a half ft. https://www.bnmpoles.com/p-38-bucks-...nning-rod.aspx

That's looks like a great rod ''G'', thanks...

Originally Posted by crappie cowboy

Need help on which rod to buy for slip floating bream and crappie...

I have had great luck for many years with ugly stick rods-i have many in different lengths and action-some are 20 plus years old-there new elite series are sweet-teamed up with a pflueger spinning reel will be a rig that will last you for years to come.

There are two sticky threads at the top with a combined 18 pages and almost 200 posts.

Worth checking out.

Originally Posted by deathb4disco

There are two sticky threads at the top with a combined 18 pages and almost 200 posts.

Worth checking out.

Yea thanks, I read every page. I wasn't interested in just a good rod, I was wanting a rod that didn't have the micro eyes so I wouldn't have problems casting a slip float...

Originally Posted by crappie cowboy

Yea thanks, I read every page. I wasn't interested in just a good rod, I was wanting a rod that didn't have the micro eyes so I wouldn't have problems casting a slip float...

Yeah ... I was going to suggest a ESP rod, until I saw that you specified slip float use (ESP rods all have micro-guides)

I have a 7'6" BnM Crappie Wizard that throws a slip float with jigs just fine. Plenty long enough to get some leverage when a bass decides to play and light enough to cast all day without looking for the screw that tightens your right shoulder a notch.

Shakespear's micro series rods are hard to beat for a $20.00 rod. We have a dozen or so of the seven foot light action rods and use them with six pound line for longlining out the back of the boat, pitching 1/32 oz. jigs or beetle spin type lures, and live bait fishing under floats.

I don't abuse my equipment but I don't baby it either. I have caught catfish over six pounds in public fishing area lakes, bass, and a boatload of panfish over the eight or so years I have owned them and never had a failure. They are sensitive enough to feel bream peck at a cricket and strong enough to bring a bragging size catfish to the boat if you watch what you are doing.

I'm well satisfied with mine.