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Jack Lai:
Hi,
I'm looking for a rod for fishing 100g poppers mostly and fish the occasional 150g max. Will be using 12kg drag with a max of 15kg using PE6. For big GT on small lures capable of putting good pressure on the fish.

What would you recommend?

Jack

Jon Li:
Carpenter WV80XH or SP78UHL for the stated drag settings but 100 gr. lures may be a bit on the light side for these rods .

Jon .

Brandon Khoo:
Jack, what you're looking for unfortunately doesn't exist and the idea of focussing for big GTs on small lures is a bit counter-intuitive.

A rod that can handle 15kgs of drag will be a rod that is rated around PE10-12. I know of no PE6 rod that is designed to handle drag pressure of that magnitude. PE6 rods generally operate around a maximum level of 10kg.

Big GTs will take small lures but people who focus on catching these generally use big poppers. I don't know why you're thinking of trying to focus on catching big GTs on small lures  ???  Also, if you're wanting to catch big GTs, I really don't think PE6 is the way to go.

Pat Victorino:

  Hi Jack,

      As Brandon stated not a good idea to target big GT with small lures.I'm not saying a nice fish won't attack a lighter lure but in the end you're going to run into problems with teminal tackle failure on 12-15kg of drag.
      Jon suggested two carpenter rods popular in handling PE10-12.When you got a chance look them up and see if they interest u.

Mick Cunningham:
15kg drag is a lot of grant . maybe you should lower it to say 12kg of drag??

the carpenter sp78h can handle pe6-10 but max drag are 12kg .


by the way there are a lot of different rod out there .

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