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I am looking to buy a fishing rod that can handle both long casting for trout in freshwater lakes from the water’s edge and cod from a boat or casting out reasonably heavy lures from a pier and as I am relatively new to the sport (and not yet buying my 2nd, 3rd, 4th rod etc yet…! ) I want to get a 2in1 one does all type rod that can handle this.
I feel I would like a 10ft/3m rod for long distance casting but the weighting I am a little uncertain about.
I want to get long distances in my casting for trout and from the lakeside and the cod from the shore or pier but also use the rod for casting heavier lures to get cod.
I was think maybe would a medium light rod with a casting weight of 7-28 kgs be too light for the heavier lures and alternatively would a 15-35g cw rod be heavy for long casting for trout?
Confused! :/
I know this situation isn’t ideal but I really need to buy just one rod.
If anyone can suggest a good rod for my dilemma, that would be most appreciated!!
Cheers
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Sorry it doesn't work that way. You need a stout rod for cod and a light weight rod for casting for trout. Two different water style of fishing. 7ft Med / Light rod for trout with 8lb line. Surf casting is a 9ft rod and 25 lb line. Cabelas and Basspro have some combo deals that are low price.
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Greg has spoken the truth. You'll need two different set ups bud. [fishon]
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There is no debate in truth. I grew up packing one rod using a variety of lures catching many species. Creeks, rivers, lakes and ponds, I only owned one rod so I used that one rod.
My daughter has been using the same 5' fiberglass ultralight rod for around five years now. I offer to buy her a new rod but she has no interest, she did let me replace her daiwa underspin reel with a shimano 1000 spinning reel a while back. I have seen her haul in fish bigger than herself lol.
In one day I may hit many type fishing "holes" for many species. I don't have the room to carry a bunch of rods. I may fish one of the local trout streams then fish a tributary for smallmouth and end up in muskie waters at dusk before I fish the early hours of night for catfish. Of course there are days we target panfish for fun or largemouth for sport and its just a half hour drive to good striper water.
There is a functional 2n1 rod for you.
I cast 2"plastic weightless up to several ounces.
My favorite bait personally is a 1/8Oz Texas bullet rigged zoom ultravibe speedcraw in watermelon seed on a 1/0 wormhook, around 10 grams I reckon.
I like a 20 series spinning reel with at least 15lbs of drag. Am currently using a year old quantum accurist pti. I use a 6'6" medium ugly stick gx2 (the 7'm too flimsy imho). Sure there is more sensitive rods, I have owned many rods since my days growing up with just one Zebco 202 combo and later with a new 33 on that same old 5'Mrod.
When it comes to functionality it is. Sore there are better specific options but it will succeed as a many-n-1 setup.
I use 10 pound braid to 10lb fluorocarbon setup but you may prefer 15-20lb for your cod. I spent years using only ultralight setup with 4lb stren for everything including catfish but a snapped rod left me walking miles back to the car to drive even more miles to the gander mountain to not even find a rod in stock I liked as much as the one that broke. No more, just try to focus on mastering the tool.
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Glad to hear your enjoying your setup. My use of word flimsy"was a bad choice of word, I should rather said "the 7'm has a slightly slower action than the 6'6"M.
I know what you mean, I have hundreds of dollars of lures that sit at home in boxes most of the time. Around here a live crawdad performs quite well also and if you take a liking to live bait, the 7'is a better choice overall for sure.
In artificial baits I like plastic things I can use for more than one thing. Like the speedcraw, I can fish it weightless topwater as a small mammel or an undersurface frog or add weight and swim while jigging it as a frog or on bottom as a crawdad. Its one of the only baits I have used that catches nearly every freshwater species in north America consistently for me.
Shimano makes dependable reels. I used to use the 40 size, the larger spool is more manageable but I have had some bad experiences with all fluorocarbon on my spinning reels with all makes of line I have used and have seen fish actually look at my braid and then swim off. When I fish un/slightly weighted small baits like I to use a 1'leader and cast that too, as in, don't reel the knot into the tip, it will get you a few extra feet in casting distance.
I only changed to a 20 series because they hold a full 150yrd spool of #10 braid over the backing.
I hope you catch many trout Wednesday and add memories that will be stories that inspire others to more appreciate our hobby. :-)
the best advice I can think of to increase your catching with artificial is try to "create a silhouette", make fish think your "worm" is a bream's back that they just caught a glimpse of. Be blessed. :-)
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That happens to the best of them, every catcher of fish that I know has days of no catching. I always heard "a bad day fishing is better than a good day otherwise", makes me think, that person never had two out of three barbs of a treble hook buried in their flesh. Lol
What was you fishing with bait/lure wise?
Was you getting hits or chases but no set hooks?
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True, lol. Perhaps the sea will bring luck.
Could be that it's just too warm. When it gets like that I usually try 2-3" tubes in pearl or small plastic lizards no larger than 4" rigged weightless in black with red flake or a color that resembles the environment/water. If in pike waters i would try larger lizards. Drag them off the bank or whatever and let them sink. Think of out as a radio controlled lizard lol.
Of course the ideal rod for plastic lizards is not an ugly stik but with practice you can do it.
When I go fishing close by and not miles from blacktop I like my Daiwa 6'6" medium-heavy extra fast with a 20 reel. It's a more versatile 2n1 rod for me but I would hate to hear it crack...:-)
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