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Jason D'Angelo:
Fairly new to the popping fishing craze im only 22 years old and live in south australia
and have been doing trips to exmouth
in the last year.
really enjoy it and looking forward to upgrading to a carpenter rod.

running a 6500 saltiga with 80-100lb braid
170-200lb leader.
now i mainly only use stickbaits
* Smith Baby runbohs (sinking)
*ASWB 130 SS scad

is what i mainly have used and will continue to with other lures.

just wondering what would be the best rod suited to this application, have heard the endless passions are great as well as the monster
but carpenter is all knew to me and i have no ideas so
thanks for the help much appreciated budget not a issue

Duncan O'Connell:
Hi Jason,

The Endless Passions are great stickbait rods, The EP85/36 will definitely work the lures that you mention as well as some larger stickbaits too. The softer tip really excells at getting a good action out of floating stickbaits in particular, which can sometimes be a little tricky to work, especially for the newcomer.

The Monster Hunter MH80H is a more powerful rod which will work medium to large stickbaits and poppers very well. This rod is probably a bit much for throwing smaller lures like Baby Runbohs really well but it will work lures like the 130SS Scad and larger very easily.

Both rods will work very well for you in WA - on a trip to the Montebellos last year, Kenji Konishi and his field testers were using both of these rods extensively. If you are looking for a stickbait specific rod, the Endless Passion is the perfect tool. On the other hand, for a more powerful all-rounder, the Monster Hunter MH80H is superb

Hope this helps

Cheers

Duncan

Mark Harris:
Personally, I would say that EP 85/36 is not the best match with the heavy set up (6500 Saltiga and 80-100 lb braid) that Jason mentions he will use?

Leaving MH80H aside as it would be fairly horrrible with a Smith Baby Runboh (!) and indeed any stickbait under about 160 grams, then I would suggest Jason looks at EP82/38, CV79/40 or DJ83MH. Those would be a better match to the 6500 Saltiga and 80-100lb line I think.

Sean Costello:
Hi Jason

If you are mainly fishing exmouth then the MH80h gets my vote, as mark said though it wont be much good with the runbohs. I fished ningaloo in april and hooked all my fish right in the breakers, the extra power of the monster hunter came in handy extracting the fish, its also a very good casting rod which helps reach the back of the reef when the swells up a bit.

Sean

Brandon Khoo:
There is no real issue with using a 6500 sized reel with an EP85. Prior to the Stella 10000 coming out in 2008, we all used the large sized reels such as the 10000FA (same size as current 180000) and 6000 or 6500 Stellas.

On what is a suitable Carpenter rod, I would suggest that you think beyond what you like using now but how you think your GT fishing needs may evolve in the next year or two. I think the reality is that you will move away from a small lure like the Baby Runboh (which isn't really a GT lure) to what would generally be regarded as more GT sized lures. You may also want to think of getting into poppers and other lures rather than just stickbaits.

If you like fishing around the PE8 (roughly 100lb) level, then you could think about the CV79 RF40, the EP82 or the EP85. If you wanted the versatility of going up to PE10, then the MH80H could be a good option.

You do need to get a decent understanding though of the different rods and their recommended/ideal casting weights though.

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