01-08-2018, 04:53 PM
[#0000FF]It is really a matter of personal preference...based on how heavy your jigs will be, how deep the fish will be and how large the fish are likely to be.
Captain Jim, at Flaming Gorge, makes his rods about 42 inches...from 5 or 6 foot blanks cut down to size. And he cuts some off the tip and some off the butt to get just the action he wants. He starts with a medium light power but probably ends up with something closer to medium.
There are plenty of other mack chasers that believe in going big...using med-heavy or even heavy. The most important thing is to have the sensitivity to feel the lightest nudge, and the power to set the hook a long ways down and to handle the fish in the shortest amount of time to reduce stressing it.
Below is a picture of a set of 3 rods I made for a fellow BFTer...with three different colors of all the same blank. They were 48 inches long and had fast tips for touch and plenty of beef in the butt. Started out with 6 foot medium power fast tip blanks.
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Captain Jim, at Flaming Gorge, makes his rods about 42 inches...from 5 or 6 foot blanks cut down to size. And he cuts some off the tip and some off the butt to get just the action he wants. He starts with a medium light power but probably ends up with something closer to medium.
There are plenty of other mack chasers that believe in going big...using med-heavy or even heavy. The most important thing is to have the sensitivity to feel the lightest nudge, and the power to set the hook a long ways down and to handle the fish in the shortest amount of time to reduce stressing it.
Below is a picture of a set of 3 rods I made for a fellow BFTer...with three different colors of all the same blank. They were 48 inches long and had fast tips for touch and plenty of beef in the butt. Started out with 6 foot medium power fast tip blanks.
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