What is everyone's view on this? I used to mainly troll for marlin and sail (with Dad as a youngester) and so on but then got into jigging and spent the hard earned pennies there, however i am now getting setup for trolling and the jigging gear is influencing my gear choice!
I'm going to run two tiagra 16's with 30 lbs braid and 30lbs mono top shot of 100 meters or so and then two tiagra 30w with 50 lbs braid and 100 meters of 50lbs topshot or so. I know the 30W are too big for 50lbs braid but i bought those first before i started to really think about braid so I'll live with it now and then upgrade them to 80 lbs braid later on.
I want light rods (in weight) with fuji eyes (braid friendly) so that i can keep everything as light as possible. I also want short rods (fit under T-top for storage). Most trolling rods seem to have rollers and are much heavier (600-800 grams) than jigging rods.
Why aren't jigging rods used as trolling rods? Are they too springy to troll with? But if that is the case a 400 gram jigging rod would be stiff enough to pull lures? Or is it that the butt sections are not strong enough to sit in the rod holder without snapping when a decent fish piles on the lure?
Any comments would be appreciated as I really confused with what is the best way forward here. I would like the trolling rods to be shorter than 1.8 meters (6 foot) but shroter would be nice. Target is sail, dorado, tuna, wahoo and striped marlin mainly......
looking forward to ideas.
Alistair
