Quote Originally Posted by Nwpacrappie View Post
Dicks doesn’t carry a whole lot anymore, field and stream is a lot better with better selections. I didn’t have a lot to spend on rods when I purchased mine and I ended up with zebco crappie fighters from Walmart. I changed out the line and absolutely love the rods, I typically use them for casting and I use a 10’6” noodle rod for floating corks and fishing downed trees on top of the water. It worked for me and it didn’t cost me an arm and a leg since I could use them for other fishing. Field and stream also carries BObby Garland plastics, and they ALWAYS price match fish USA. Don’t forget the price match it saves me 100’s in fishing gear throughout the year.
I've got a few noodle rods rigged up for long lining some jigs later in the summer. They are a few composite/glass cheapies used steelheading. Used the cheap rods gearing up friends and relatives that visited to do the steelhead thing years ago. My 10' graphite noodle is intended to be used exactly the way you use yours. Hope the cheap noodles are not too soft for pulling jigs up to 1/8 oz. Field & Stream is where I got some of my plastic a few years ago. I was in F&S earlier in the spring shaking rods and found nothing reasonably priced. I am nuts about fishing tackle but $200-300 for St Croix or the Loomis stuff is not in the budget. My wife has never complained but I am too old to start sleeping in the garage.