I went into the garage and checked and lo-and behold the rods I use for rippin my Rouges are both bass pro that I won in raffles and are perfect for that function. I'm not knocking anybodys product. The Castaways went up to Cachuma with me and I missed seriously 3 fish I should have caught, so I put them under the Christmas tree for some well deserving kids. I've been thinking about this since I left work and it is "to me anyway" kinda like this. I'm a professional Tool and Die Maker and if you hand a blueprint to me or a co-hort we might not start at the same place but the finished product some how ends up the same! What works for you? Kind of like many of the posts on Calfishing! What works for me is my slant on it. We might not all agree on lunar phases or tidal influx or anything for that matter but.....we will try to put you farther ahead with our experiance than you might have been prior....I am stuck,My first Loomis cost so much more than any other rod prior I could hardley justify it until the next outing when I stuck my biggest worm fish to date....I fished tournaments for awhile and won angler of the year out of the back seat in the Santa Barbara Club and well,I quit clubbing and went in search of my next goal.......Bigger......So I started throwing swimbaits and flipping with basically a saltwater stick....then I wanted to go back to my roots and worm again but I needed some new sticks as a boating accident had claimed all of my finnesse stuff. For me it was natural to go back to the girls that had brought me to the dance. In retrospect it seems to me that my timing has been effected by the way the rods resond. If I still had that old yellow glass spinning rod that I used to swear by in the 70's that would be my rod of choice except it was a two piece rod and that my friends is where I draw the line......NEVER again. It's true I don't need a 200 dollar rod to throw sluggos I just do. Try a zebco glass rod with a 33 zebco reel--thats what 90% of the touring pros started with but now they use????
Try them,like them,hate them< Move on....It's only what I Use....You can or not. I Love this post it's so user friendley. Thanxs SwimBait for your tireless efforts. I think you deserve an award of sorts what that might be I cannot speculate but it is deservidly yours <Kelly>