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Post by dnoell9 on Feb 25, 2018 19:13:47 GMT -5
I’m looking at buying a couple rods for trolling umbrella rigs. I’m looking at a 7 foot ugly stick tiger rod. My question is would you go with medium heavy or heavy?
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Post by Shadslinger on Feb 25, 2018 19:19:08 GMT -5
Medium heavy
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Post by dnoell9 on Feb 25, 2018 19:24:38 GMT -5
I guess I should ad that if I go with mh I can only get it in 6’6 and not 7. Also are the tiger series rods ($80) any better than the white striper series rods ($40)?
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Post by Don on Feb 25, 2018 21:15:33 GMT -5
I would go with the white striper edition in a medium-heavy for trolling. I have quite a few of them paired with the Tekota 500LCs and they do great for trolling. The tigers are fatter/bigger than you need.
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Post by Yam on Feb 26, 2018 4:42:12 GMT -5
Agreed. MH 7.0' white striper rod. Mine are paired with Tekota 500s as well. The rods are at their upper limits with 40 pound cobia but will still get the job done. For striper, they work perfect.
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Post by lund2 on Feb 26, 2018 17:26:42 GMT -5
Yup, Lund1 fish that exact same combo for live bait and for artificals/umbrella rigs and love em.
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Post by quackquackboom on Feb 26, 2018 21:22:34 GMT -5
Agreed. MH 7.0' white striper rod. Mine are paired with Tekota 500s as well. The rods are at their upper limits with 40 pound cobia but will still get the job done. For striper, they work perfect. Do you use the reels for cobia also? Just change the rods? |
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Post by Yam on Feb 27, 2018 5:21:30 GMT -5
Agreed. MH 7.0' white striper rod. Mine are paired with Tekota 500s as well. The rods are at their upper limits with 40 pound cobia but will still get the job done. For striper, they work perfect. Do you use the reels for cobia also? Just change the rods? Yes. Same reels and same line as well.. 25 lb mono. The only difference is the leader....40 lb. |
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Post by Don on Feb 27, 2018 21:29:23 GMT -5
Personally, I run a lighter leader (ie, 50lb braid mainline and 20-30lb leader) when trolling. This is SML and you are going to hang your line. Its my preference to break at the leader than have to re-spool or try and break the higher test line.
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Post by Wingnutt on Mar 22, 2018 18:46:41 GMT -5
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Post by piper on Apr 2, 2018 15:55:08 GMT -5
Personally, I run a lighter leader (ie, 50lb braid mainline and 20-30lb leader) when trolling. This is SML and you are going to hang your line. Its my preference to break at the leader than have to re-spool or try and break the higher test line. This is how I run things as well. I will say that some braid does make some noise at certain speeds as it is pulled through the water. |
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Post by greywalls on Apr 2, 2018 20:02:50 GMT -5
Y'all are much heavier than me. 20lb braid with 10 or 12lb flouro leader. OR just straight 10 to 12lb mono. I like lighter line, and havent had issues with breaking off.
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Post by Red Bear on Apr 13, 2018 11:24:20 GMT -5
Y'all are much heavier than me. 20lb braid with 10 or 12lb flouro leader. OR just straight 10 to 12lb mono. I like lighter line, and havent had issues with breaking off. have you snagged underwater tree tops before? im guessing you havent. because your line probably wouldve broken. now im quite sure you can handle big fish in open water, so long as you play them right. but trolling in SML i have snagged and broken many a leader lines. me and my uncle troll lead core line and we use a 25lb mono leader w/swivel connecting. sometimes you pull branches up, sometimes your line snaps. but it snaps at the smaller leader line and youre not wasting a bunch of the lead core |
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