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Chris Toops:
Cheers James thanks I'll pop onto the Shimano website to have a look at the Ocea Plugger range now.

Cameron Mundy:
Hots makes a range of very good rods I've seen many big fish landed on them without issue and they are far more pocket friendly than the other Jap brands, Sami's Range of rods is growing steadily and the same applies to them not cheap but fantastic rods quality wise.

Pip Theobald:
I bought the Saltiga x 802S and used it last week.  It is too soft for large poppers. The 150-300gm weighting is too high.  As mentioned the guides are possibly a bit small. I did have an issue where I cast and somehow the FG knot caught on the second guide and ripped the lower foot out of the binding. The lure disappeared over the horizon!  It was a 132gm stick bait. I was using PE8 and 140lb leader with FG knot.  I cable tied the foot back to the rod and kept fishing. Next day I bound the foot back on with braid.

It worked 120gm Cuberas ok, 182 Stick Shads well.  I'll be looking for something stiffer to throw poppers/chuggers.

Brandon Khoo:
The comments on the 802S are no surprise at all, Pip. Daiwa have never gotten their act right on their GT rod offerings over a very long time. To me, it is a simple fact of not having testers who know their stuff on this sport as the rods they continually churn out are just not quite right.

Check out my guide to GT rods. It will help you with working out what you want notwithstanding it is a couple of years old now.

http://gtpopping.com/forum/index.php?topic=1374.0

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