Rod question.

[abkeenan]

1 minute ago, Royal Blue said:

I ended up this time around going with a Lew's Tournament SLP Speed Spool in 6:8:1, and a Falcon Bucoo 7'3" in MH.  That flash sale that BPS was running today saved me $40 on the reel.  

Good deal. You really can't go wrong with Lew's. I have them. I like them. I still use them. Their CS is 2nd to none if you happen to have an issue. I had an issue with some of the laminate peeling off their paddle knobs on the handle. Shot them an email about the issue (they were already aware that they had that happen on a bad batch from the manufacturer) and I had a couple extra paddle knobs in my mailbox like 3 days later. Lew's is a great company and their rods are making strides the last few years. Wanted to get their Wiggle Wart Special rod but I have so many combo's it's getting silly. I still may get it though! LOL. I've just become a Daiwa man for the time being. It's almost a Ford vs Chevy debate when you get into Lews vs Shimano vs Daiwa vs Abu Garcia. All are putting out quality gear these days.

[abkeenan]

6 minutes ago, Royal Blue said:

I think that I'll try a Hammer on the next go around.  At some point I'll cheat on Lew's, but I couldn't make myself do that yet.  After having that Quantum fall apart on me out of the box, I have a hard time straying from what I know.

 

Quantum has been a shame in general. In the early and mid 90's they had some nice stuff. I used the crap out of their Energy line (both rods and reels) as a young buck. Had an old EX500 baitcaster also that was a real brute and never failed in over a decade of service. Somewhere they went wrong and their stuff became junk. One too many Bill Dance combos I guess. They aren't even a consideration for me when I think of buying a new rod or reel. I bought a $100 Quantum KVD baitcaster around 10 years ago. My father and his uncle also bought the same one from BPS. They were all returned to Bass Pro in less than a years time for various reasons. Total garbage. That was the last Quantum product that I have ever purchased. Quantum can't be doing that well when they ended up scrapping their flagship reel, the EXO, all together either last year or the year before. All they have now is the Smoke line, the KVD Tour stuff and then their garbage low end smut. I know a lot of pro's and celebrity fisher-folk like KVD, Hackney, other BM Elites, Bill Dance, the Linder family and others pimp their gear. But it's pretty easy to use their stuff when they just send it to you and if/when it breaks they just send you more. For the people that pay for their gear you need reliable equipment. I know Champ has a bunch sponsors, as can be seen by his rather boisterous jersey peppered with their logo's, so he is the exclusion to that last bit. He never has to pay for anything so his opinions are biased and should not be taken as anything but with a grain of salt.

[JF660R]

I just picked up an Abu Revo SX and a Favorite rod. 

The Favorite White Bird MH is a little soft considering I want to throw jigs with it. But, I really like the Revo. Kinda surprised no one else brought that suggestion. 

[likinmo]

I do like falcon rods !! but my favorite for a crank bait is my skeet reese...go figure...Im one that has a hodge podge of rod and reels...Im trying to ween myself off of just buying this one or that one and trying to start sticking with just lews reels and falcons....for the money you just cant find a better product in my mind!

[Royal Blue]

36 minutes ago, likinmo said:

I do like falcon rods !! but my favorite for a crank bait is my skeet reese...go figure...Im one that has a hodge podge of rod and reels...Im trying to ween myself off of just buying this one or that one and trying to start sticking with just lews reels and falcons....for the money you just cant find a better product in my mind!

My rod selection is extremely hodge podge.  I have Fenwick, several Lew's, Abu, BPS, Berkely, Okuma, and now a Falcon.  I'm sure there's an Ugly Stick or two in there too!

[abkeenan]

3 minutes ago, Royal Blue said:

My rod selection is extremely hodge podge.  I have Fenwick, several Lew's, Abu, BPS, Berkely, Okuma, and now a Falcon.  I'm sure there's an Ugly Stick or two in there too!

You will like that BuCoo. I would have no problem if every rod I owned was in the BuCoo lineup.

[fowlthing]

I have a mixture as well As rods and  reels. Mostly lews bait caster and Stradic shimano spin cast. 

 

Rods. Love my carbonlite from bass pro. Fished with a friend that has temple fork rod. For 100$ as well. It was really nice. 

Have a new rod from Lews via customer service on an older rod. They treated me very well.  Love my falcons low riders. 

 

Have several G loomis. Couple of them are very nice. Couple just average 

 

also so have two bass pro qualifier bait cast reels the white light weight one is not as good as the cheaper model  

just picked up the formula baitcast reel from bass pro for 50$  it seems pretty good  don't know about Durability 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Champ188]

Loved it when Hackney's piece-o-junk Quantum snapped at the butt in the MLF show Saturday.

[Leitsout]

Lol.  I haven't seen that episode yet.  I'll be keeping my eyes peeled for it.