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Which popping rod to get for chugging 150g chuggers

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Dave Hoo:
Hi all,
I am looking for a popping rod to chug 150g eltoros; craftbaits. (i think popper will weight 160-180g with hooks)

I have been using 8" popping rods to cast 125g poppers for chugging and am looking at the following rods:
1. Patriot Design GTZ 77 Black diamond. 7"7, pe 8-10. Not too sure if its too short for good casting distance
2. SEED 710HP Popping rod. 7"10 Pe 8-10. longer but not too sure if its too stiff
3. Smith Rocket

Will pair the rod with either a Saltiga6000 GT or the new stella 18000HG and PE8 line

Hope to get some good advice here

thanks

Mark Harris:
As an aside has anyone here swung a Smith Rocket yet?

I am not at all familiar with the SEED model so no comment there.

There are a host of excellent choices Dave. For a general all round rod for that class of popper and line I suspect I am not the only one here who would suggest Ripple Fisher GT79R.

If you want a longer rod, I love using a Carpenter DJMH83 for big faced 140 to 160 gram poppers.

Kasey Leong:
Dave, I think there's a good reason why you don't really hear about SEED rods at all.

Chris Leong:
El toro 150?

Brandon Khoo:
Kasey, I think SEED have really suffered in terms of their reputation for the blanks and rods from a generation ago. The Shirens developed a reputation for blowing up. The problem with this is that we won't ever know if this was angler error or not. The Shiren was a 100% graphite bank and as we know, a couple of other 100% graphite rods developed a rep for this as well. The way I see some people load up jigging rods, I am not surprised they blow up.

I have a Shiren PE6-8 and I used it a bit although it hasn't seen a  trip in quite a number of years now and probably never will. The blank was badly misclassified in the first place. It was PE6-8 but had a load limit of 10kg. Going beyond 10kg was a very bad idea with this rod but fi an angler was fishing PE8, they're going to go way past 10kg!

Their Boss range which was their range of popping rods never developed such a reputation. I knew a few people with these and they performed ok although the rods were very heavy in comparison to other offerings in the market.

I understand that their latest range of popping blanks have improved quite significantly but I haven't tried one myself.



--- Quote from: Kasey Leong on February 11, 2011, 03:13:49 AM ---Dave, I think there's a good reason why you don't really hear about SEED rods at all.

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