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Guide to buying a GT rod - updated as at February 2017

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Mark Harris:
Felix

There are probably 4 rods under discussion here?

Kaiser El Toro 150
Kaiser El Toro 180

NS Black Hole Cape Cod Super Popping Special (graphite) and the same rod in the nano version.

I own the Kaiser El Toro 150 and have used the 180, and used the Black Hole graphite version a fair bit, but the nano hardly at all as it is too soft for GTs.

If you want a heavy chugger rod then the El Toro 180 would be the one. It is genuine PE10-12 rod I think as as Chris states. The El Toro 150 is a good choice as a PE8 rod for chuggers up to about 160/170 grams.  Neither rod is especially forgiving and you would need to be sure you could physically handle them.

The NS Black Hole Cape Cod Super Popping Special  8.0 (graphite) is a nice all round popping rod, and I mentioned before that it is possibly the best sub-$500 rod of its type I have used. It would not be suitable for heavy chuggers though.  Here is a video showing that rod in field action on a very large GT.  Lure was a Cubera 150 I seem to remember.

Felix Neuer:
thx for the input!

Craig Dawson:
When you say heavy chiggers what do you think it's limit would be

Christoffer Hansen:
My widowmaker worked 190g gt3 and I cups pretty well and judging from the pics it's similar in action.
Rods of that power level can work your large chuggers effectly and still throw a 150g chugger, to go heavier your really looking at premium priced rods like the ripple 78xh and heavy patriot designs. Awesome rods for your mega poppers but don't throw smaller lures very far. If it was me I'd be buyin the ultra heavy popper rod while you can still buy them cause they seem to be gettin phased out.

Chris

christopherhanaghan:
thanks for a great series of posts brandon.

I'm looking at getting a GT outfit for the occassional trip to the south pacific every year or so. Unfortunately, being Sydney based I dont have any GT options on my door step so the best i could hope for is an outfit that i could use for kingies as well. with this in mind and also my preference to catch quantity over quality (i havent caught enough to want to dedicate myself to the big guys), what sort of rod do you think would be appropriate?

I'm thinking a pe6-8 capable of casting 80-150 gram poppers around 8' long. Going to be pairing it with a 2012 6500H Catalina and probably running 80lb braid. Open for suggestions!!  Ohh and not looking to spend more than $600 on the rod.

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