Slimed my new rod this morning

I took my new 8’ Berkley Lightning rod Trout Rod UL to the town pond this morning. I paired it with a Daiwa Laguna 2500 , with 4# Silverthread , thinking the extra weight would balance the rod .
I fished about an hour with hair and feather jigs under a float without a nibble . Although the rod performed great . With the weighted float I could make some long casts and cover a lot of water .
Then I broke out the soft plastics . First a 1” curlytail , under the float , but without any takers . I removed the float but was having a problem getting any distance at all .
I walked back to my truck and swapped out the reel for a Shimano Sahara 500 loaded with 2# P-Line . To my surprise, because of the rods long butt section , the combo balanced just in front of the reel seat . Not bad for for a light reel , long rod combo. With this I was able to cast my normal 50-60 feet with the 1/64 Trout Magnet jighead and now I’d switched to a bison trout magnet body .
Don’t know if it was the line change or the bait or both , but in the next twenty minutes I caught three small lm bas , which is good for the Town pond lately . Here’s the biggest one . Gillchaser
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Nice report on your shake down cruise

Bison Trout Magnets will catch fish. I did not use them until this Spring but now I am a fan. Good catch.


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Bison is my preferred color of TM or CM.

That's a good fish for a shakedown. I have gone into a store and tried a few reels on different rods and was surprised at the difference. I took two reels that were the same size but one composite and the other metal framed, another big difference. A balanced combo is such a pleasure, it just takes no effort to cast. Enjoy the new rod.

Nice catch.....can’t go wrong with Bison.

Regards


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