What is your favorite rod for spider rigging? Why?
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What is your favorite rod for spider rigging? Why?
Any grouping of rods with the same character. For example, I have four 14' Ozarks, two B&M 14', one 12' B&M, one 12' Crappie Max, etc. That said, given equal bates and rigs each rod will act differently. That makes a windy day or light bite hard to judge.
I personally like the 14 Ozarks and will be going that way.. and will replace all others.
I am using Pinnacle Limit rods. They are 4 for $70.00 at Grizzly Jig. First rods I have used for spider rigging so don't know about any others. They catch fish.
I am really liking the 14ft. southern crappie rods. Have Bmjp and Sam heatons but have really gotten to like the Southern rods.
SouthernCrappie rods. Best rods I ever owned. They are designed for running 1/2 oz weight just for spider rigging. They will carry heavier weight just fine but were designed for 1/2. Nice soft tip for seeing the bite but with plenty of backbone for lifting fish. Only tip I have seen broken was operator error in the shop.
What he said in 14 ft length
Like others have said, Southerns have a sensitive tip for detecting light bites but the power band is much higher on the backbone. That enables the rod to swing 2 pound slabs in the boat with no net needed. They are also kevlar so they don't break as easily as carbon rods. Plus Ed's shipping rate is the same weather you order one rod or ten.
Southerns!....that is all that needs to be said
I prefer to rig with 16fters. I've used anywhere from 12-16 and feel like in shallower water I catch more fish. They can be a pain at first but with time you get used to them. As far as rod I have the Lews troll techs and I love them. They're durable (got an eyelet caught in a dock at the ozarks and it was all I could do to break the tip of the eyelet and salvage the rest of my rods).
14 or 16 foot Ozarks
Southern Crappie. 14 or 16s..Thanks Cray for not mentioning who the operator was that made the error😊
Everybody already knows :RoflQuote:
Originally Posted by KnightShadow10
Tell him G!!!!:Rofl I can buy three Southerns for less than what 2 Ozarks cost and they have a better tip, lighter too. Nothin wrong with the backbone of the Ozark but the tip is not what the Southerns were. Another issue is customer service, Ozarks CS SUX, period. Ed at Southern Crappie is outstanding and most of the time you talk to him when you call, Ozark never returned my call with a rod issue.
Ozarks in 14 foot are 70 bucks each, Southerns are 42, get 8 of em and that's 560 verses 336, that's a lot of minners!!!!
Well I've been wanting to try spider rigging for a couple years now and I was going to buy bnm rods but I called southern pro Thursday about their rods and Ed himself answered the phone talked to me for about 30 minutes about his product that sold me if the owner of the company can take your call and answer your questions that's pretty awesome so I ordered six twelve footers today so if anyone has any advice or tricks for rigging please feel free to send me a message thanks Tink
16 ' Southern Crappie been the beat I've try.
LittleJohn
Well- I use Bucks Graphite Jig Poles 14 feet long.
Which brings up a subject discussed at the Independence BassPro Shop seminar today I attended. The discussion of numbers of poles allowed per person came up. At first the speaker said you can have more than 3 as long as you have your name/address on them. Then he hedged and seemed to waver and say you should check with the MDC and he doesn't want to get anybody in trouble (or words to that effect). I thought it was clearly settled- you can have more than 3 poles as long as you have your name/conservation heritage card # on the poles. Which gets into the 33 hooks for a trot line area of rationale. Do people think this is still "undecided law"?
nope this is decided in my view. :twocents
I've never had a issue with running 8 rods by myself. I have been checked several times and it never has even been brought up in the conversation.
I like the Ozark rods.
I like the Ozark rods, but I'm hearing alot of good things on these new Denali rods.
At 90 bucks a pop they should be awesome, time will tell.Quote:
Originally Posted by loz speck slayer