Thread: Shellcracker video.

Another great video...I forgot that you had the Fine Tail Banshee SUL rod,I didn't see a review of that rod I might have to go back and look thru your videos...

Originally Posted by Gillfishn

Another great video...I forgot that you had the Fine Tail Banshee SUL rod,I didn't see a review of that rod I might have to go back and look thru your videos...

Thanks much. I never did a review of the SUL. I need to though. Both of the Fine Tail Banshee rods I own are very sensitive. The Daiwa Iprimi is really very dead compared to the Major Craft.....but the Daiwa was less than half the cost of the Fine Tail Banshee. My Palms Egeria is adequate in the sensitivity department but when one gets used to fishing with the extremely sensitive rods it is hard to use less.

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Looks like fun. I’ve never seen anyone use a net for panfish.


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Originally Posted by Alphahawk

when one gets used to fishing with the extremely sensitive rods it is hard to use less.

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That is so true...That's why I shouldn't have started down the JDM road with a Rockin' Drift

Originally Posted by 27458

Looks like fun. I’ve never seen anyone use a net for panfish.


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Well....when one is using 2.1# test line that actually breaks at 2.1 pounds.....and you are using rods with tips as small as 6/10th of a millimeter, and that rod costs from 300 to 500 dollars.....and has a graphite content as high as 99.6 percent.......you don't want to be boat lifting fish. It ain't a pretty sight when one breaks one of these rods.....LOL. Now having said that there are quite a few UL rods that cost from 50 bucks and up that folks have no business boat lifting fish with either. I will on occasion boat lift a very small bluegill with one of these rods but shellcracker...crappie....white bass......all get the net.


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Originally Posted by Gillfishn

That is so true...That's why I shouldn't have started down the JDM road with a Rockin' Drift

You got that right....LOL. In my opinion the finest cast and retrieve panfish rod there is. It really is uncanny the sensitivity of that rod.

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Originally Posted by Alphahawk

Well....when one is using 2.1# test line that actually breaks at 2.1 pounds.....and you are using rods with tips as small as 6/10th of a millimeter, and that rod costs from 300 to 500 dollars.....and has a graphite content as high as 99.6 percent.......you don't want to be boat lifting fish. It ain't a pretty sight when one breaks one of these rods.....LOL. Now having said that there are quite a few UL rods that cost from 50 bucks and up that folks have no business boat lifting fish with either. I will on occasion boat lift a very small bluegill with one of these rods but shellcracker...crappie....white bass......all get the net.


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I’d have to be a $50 guy!!


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Originally Posted by 27458

I’d have to be a $50 guy!!


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Nothing wrong with that.....I was a 50 dollar guy for a lot of years. In many of my videos I tell folks they do not need these rods to catch fish....a cane pole and some crickets can get it done.

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