Thread: Another Sliming & Another Slab

Weather wasn’t ideal , overcast , drizzly , temp 46 , but I got my 5’6” Palms Pinwheel UL yesterday and wanted to try it out and compare it to the 5’9” Pinwheel ajing rod .
The shorter one has a tubular tip where as the longer one has a solid tip . Rating are the same .
I can’t really tell any difference in the rods myself . They both look great , both will cast a mile and both are fun to fight a fish with . The only other shared feature is neither of them are very sensitive. It’s hard to feel my jig when I’m twitching.

I did feel the hit by the first fish by the first fish I caught today . On about my third cast , just as I was twitching past the spillway , it hit hard .
The battle took over five minutes as the fish ran up and down the bank , making the drag on the Shimano Soare bb500sspg sing , protecting the 2# Floroclear line .
Turned out to be another nice slab crappie .

Fishing after that was slow as I only caught three small LM while .

I’d taken another combo , planning on trying some float fishing , but decided to see how it would do twitching and compare its sensitivity to the Pinwheel.
It was an old model 7’ Daiwa Procyon, paired with my Soare bb c2000sspg with a Ultegra spool and 2# Floroclear.
I twitched with it for a while catching a couple gills , but the casting distance didn’t equal the Pinwheel until I noticed the jig I was using was a .5g 4mm Tungsten jig. But I could feel the lighter jig better than with the Pinwheel.
I swapped to a .8g and boom , the distance was at least equal to the pinwheel but the sensitivity was way better even though the Procyon is an old IM7 rod with full cork grip.
Last fish was a shellcracker that put a nice bend in the Procyon.
I may actually fish with the Procyon some more in the future.
It’s a fun rod .

That’s a really nice above average slab you have there. Fish like that get my heart rate up and I’m sure that things won’t go right, til they do. Good job keeping him buttoned up. And it’s a slam too, good job! I was in academy a few days back and handled a Procyon, a bit longer but I never looked at the stats on the blank. Overall I walked away saying to myself that I could fish with it, felt good. Soft tip and a stout lower and middle which made it feel like a light action. A person could do a lot worse. Looks like it did the job for you.