Falcon Rods Quick Note for Fathers Day

[Sore Thumbs]

Champ and Bill? I have the option to trade this Head Turner in on a different rod. Would you be ok with using the McClelland rod for all jig applications and getting a swim jig rod? Or do I wait until medium cranker comes in and swap it for swim jig rod? Thanks for your input. Bill I would be interested in a Falcon rod for drop-shot. I prefer longer but I trust your opinion on length. Let me know what you can do on one of those when you get time. 

[abkeenan]

4 hours ago, Bill Babler said:

Sorry guys, I have just been covered up guiding.  Thank you James for answering the questions.  The Swim Jig rod is absolute excellent for anything 3/8, 1/2 oz. to 3/4 as far as the SB.  I use the Micro Cranker and yes it is small diameter for 1/2 oz and under on the SB   It also depends on your blade size.  The Amistad is great in Micro for any size blade.  If I had to only have one, Yikes!! for any size blade It would be the MMC-5F-172 Signature Micro at MH 7'2" 10 to 17 pound line and up to 3/4.  It is pretty much M. McClelland version of the Swim Jig, only Dolled up and Microed.

Falcon does not make a Spinning rod at 7'6" that would apply to your Father.  When it comes to a diversity as far as spinning rod sizes, you are not going to beat St. Croix.  Ab's also answered this just about as well as I could.  The Falcons are most often going to fish better, but the fit and the finish of the SC is fantastic.  The Falcons on the Signature Rods with the Copper inlays against the Black Blank are simply beautiful.

As far as the discounts, email me or PM me for prices.  Each rod has a different price and the discount to the dealers varied.  I'll be more than happy to let you know what mine was.  If you have a rod in mind let me know.  I have a bunch coming in, and I already have at least 30 here at the lodge along with a few Pre-fished ones at very special prices.

This has really been Ned time for me of late, and again, you are going to be hard pressed to beat the Kriet Squirrel Tail.  My gentleman was from Kansas this past weekend and was fishing it on a St. Croix  Legend Xtreme that he just paid $400.00 bucks for.  He broke off and I handed him the CS-17M-T7.  He slung the 1/8th. oz. Ned about 30' further than he had been casting all day and the fish must have caught it on  the drop.  He told me he would fish my rod the rest of the day.  He landed this nice 3 pound LM on 5 pound maxi. 

 

He was throwing 6 pound carbon on his Xtreme, so that was not a real test.  My junk was just set up better, but you get the drift.  That is a $200 rod vs a $400 and to tell you the truth, the Falcon would eat it up.  I was also really surprised by the weight of the Xtreme, it was just way heaver, of course with that handle it would be.  He was super sad he did not buy a Falcon, but to tell you the truth, he said that was the first time he had even heard of Falcon, he  goes North and that is for sure St. C. Country.

Let me know and I'll do the best I can for you.

Good Luck

 

 

 

 

Looks like that fellow also made a poor choice in hat/team selection also!

[Bill Babler]

That selection was OK, but his car front plate had some kind of a Redheaded Vulture imprinted on it.  Either that or he had hit some kind of crud on the road and it had flown up and stuck on his front bumper.

[abkeenan]

30 minutes ago, Bill Babler said:

That selection was OK, but his car front plate had some kind of a Redheaded Vulture imprinted on it.  Either that or he had hit some kind of crud on the road and it had flown up and stuck on his front bumper.

Likely the latter. They've been getting run over for the last 5+ years with regularity. 

[m&m]

You guys are brutal!!!! But it is entertaining.

Mike

[Sore Thumbs]

Sent you a pm Bill.

[huntest]

5 hours ago, abkeenan said:

Likely the latter. They've been getting run over for the last 5+ years with regularity. 

You MU faithful seem to have much more to be concerned about than losing control of your athletic program....lol 

???

 

[Leitsout]

LMAO!

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[Champ188]

On 6/6/2016 at 10:11 AM, Sore Thumbs said:

Champ and Bill? I have the option to trade this Head Turner in on a different rod. Would you be ok with using the McClelland rod for all jig applications and getting a swim jig rod? Or do I wait until medium cranker comes in and swap it for swim jig rod? Thanks for your input. Bill I would be interested in a Falcon rod for drop-shot. I prefer longer but I trust your opinion on length. Let me know what you can do on one of those when you get time. 

I don't have the McClelland jig rod so I can't speak to that. However, Donna has the Finesse Jig rod and I can tell you that's the ultimate deal for fishing the 5/16 Eakins-style jig that everyone should be using a lot. At present, I'm using a Lew's Custom Speed Stick 7-3 MH for my bigger jigs. Love it.