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Cam Foley:
very nice fish Nathen was caught on a jig or other

Hon-Su Chin:
I would look at stiffer (not necessarily high line class) rods than the Rapala's if you plan to jig deep water and with 50lb +. Not saying its a bad rod but I wouldnt fish it to its maximum line class otherwise very good value. The Daiwa Saltist jig rods are not bad as well but abit stiff in the tip. The T-Curves are good compromise. Ugly Stik make a bluewater graphite range, Strudwick also make nice jig rods but needs to be shorter, 6ft atm.

What sort of line class you planning on running??

scotty thorrington:
hey wazza, I meant 100 mts. i recon soft is good. My 2 saltist rods and reels have caught 1000 +, apart from breaking a few handles i cant fault them. i had a couple of kids out last week, 12 and 14 year olds, they almost got levered out of the boat on the bite , once they got the rod into the rod bucket they were ok. A softer rod would be the go for them

Nathan:
 Unfortunately it wsan't but from now on i keep the JigRod on standby.

Neil Griffiths:
The Rapala rod looks like a bit of a copy of the Shimano Blue Rose series. I guess Rapala are really trading on their name and the rod will sell because it's cheap, not because it's got a respected pedigree or such like.
If you want to see what a class jig rod looks like check out a Blue Rose or better yet something like Smith 55Niraii you won't be disappointed.

Of course big schools of hungry or spawning fish make life easy for us jiggers, any old rod, jig and technique will more often than not get results. Move away from that senario and things change, you really see the cream rising to the top. The jiggers with the good stuff, the gear that's been researched and tested and refined will catch more. This is the incentive to buy better, in the long run the gear will be more satisfying to use and own.

Neil

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