I know Randy posted a time or two lately about his adventures with the 610 Lunakia, but I wanted to add my own as I have found a whole new love for this rod this season.

Just came off the lake after a couple hours drop shottting the main lake bluffs. No big gills like usual today, but I did run into a smallmouth that ran about 18” +\-

The 610 Luna handled her like a champ, I’ve caught some giant drum on this rod, so I know it can handle heavy fish, this is the first big fighter I’ve played with. That old gal jumped five or six times on me, each time clearing her whole body and then some out the water. At one point she surfaced at the bow of the boat and cleared my trolling motor. I was real nervous after she jumped the first time, I was spooled up with me new Daiwa Sensor 2.8lb JDM braid and an ORVIS 6x fluorocarbon tippet for leader, been struggling with knots slipping/breaking with this tiny braid.

Watching Randy fight fish on these rods and years of fighting big fish in the Great Lakes growing up made this fight way more fun than nerves.

Anyone wanting a high quality, made in Japan, UL rod that is fun with small sunfish all the way up to big fun on smallmouth and big drum, largemouth etc. don’t think twice about the 610 Lunakia.

I’m thinking about a second just for a backup.

This rod would be, hands down no contest, the rod I would keep if someone made me only have one rod the rest of my life.


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