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What rod action is best suited for throwing big swimbaits?
When casting large swimbaits, the type of rod action you choose is crucial for both effective casting and ensuring a solid hookup with the fish. Based on the video context provided, for large swimbaits, especially those that are heavy, you'll want a rod that has enough backbone to handle the weight of the bait and the potential fight of a big bass. This typically means looking for a rod with a moderate to fast action, which refers to how quickly the rod returns to its neutral position after being bent.
A moderate action rod will bend more towards the middle of the rod, which allows for a bit more delay when setting the hook, giving the bass a chance to fully take the swimbait in its mouth. This action also helps in casting, as it provides a good load on the rod, which can help in launching heavy baits a good distance. However, if you're using swimbaits with single jig hooks, like a Huddleston or a Magdraft with a beast hook, you might prefer a fast action rod with a lot of backbone (extra heavy power) to ensure you can set the hook firmly and handle the weight of the bait.
For swimbaits with treble hooks, like glide baits or wake baits, a more parabolic rod is often recommended. Parabolic rods bend more evenly throughout the length of the rod, which helps to keep the treble hooks pinned in the fish's mouth without tearing out, especially during the fight when the fish is thrashing and changing directions.
In summary, for large soft swimbaits with single hooks, go for a stiffer, fast action rod to drive the hook home. For hard swimbaits with treble hooks, consider a more parabolic rod to ensure the hooks stay pinned. Always match the power of the rod to the weight of the swimbaits you're casting to ensure the best performance.
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How To Choose The Right Rod To Use For Big Swimbaits! Hard Bait And Soft Bait Rods! by crazybassfisher → through the bait it's gonna close and if you're fishing like you know 30 40 feet of water you're gonna just get that backbone that will hook those fish drive the hook home and you're really gonna land those fish a lot better on a stiffer rod like this and i absolutely love this rod it works incredibly well whenever i do get bites on a soft bait like a battle shadow or a battle trout or whatever it is that i'm fishing i always hit them and they always stay pinned especially if i'm hooking that style of bait now if you're fishing like a rising sun or a soft bait that has a treble hook you don't necessarily need this much backbone in your rod you can definitely go with i used to fish some of those mag drafts on like a low down extra heavy production rod that was a little bit softer but i had that treble hook so i wasn't needing as much backbone but if you're going to be fishing a jig hook style bait or a b-stock style bait i'd definitely recommend going with a stouter rod to drive that hook home because big baits big fish you're gonna have to have those big hook sets and it's really important to drive that hook home especially if you got a really riled up fish that can toss that bait so that's basically my setups when i fish
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How To Choose The Right Rod To Use For Big Swimbaits! Hard Bait And Soft Bait Rods! by crazybassfisher → shore so when you have a rod like this that loads up as well as this one does when that fish eats it you know with 10 feet of line out and starts going crazy when you set the hook and the fish turns the other way it doesn't pull out the hooks it keeps those hooks pinned in that fish a lot better than if you have a much stiffer rod a rod that would be looking at a little bit later but the whole idea is to have a more parabolic rod when you're fishing treble hook style baits whether it's a glide bait a wake bait that's got a couple trebles on it anything with treble hooks and you're fishing fairly fast you're gonna want something parabolic like this this just happens to be the drt pulse rod before i used to fish the clash 9 on this this is the white label production rod by lowdown customs it's an 8 foot 6 rod and even at 8 6 it starts to bend further down the blank you see and again it loads those baits really well on the cast which allows the rod to do a lot of the work when it comes down to casting some of these bigger baits i was fishing a 250 on this rod before loads it great it's an extra heavy rod eight foot six i absolutely love love this rod and it's because of the blank
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How To Choose The Right Rod To Use For Big Swimbaits! Hard Bait And Soft Bait Rods! by crazybassfisher → don't want to have just one rod to do it all because we fish so many different baits we're fishing you know small glide baits like two ounce glide baits and we're fishing these giant soft baits that weigh eight or nine ounces hard baits that weigh 10 11 ounces low you're gonna need multiple different rods that have different actions if you're gonna specifically fish certain baits at different times of the year and again luckily enough i'm able to own as many rods as i do to have this but it was a necessary thing for how much i like to fish how much fishing i do and the different style of baits that i do and hopefully you guys kind of get an understanding of why you choose you know the right rod for the right specific bait it'll just save you so much headache it'll save you from some of the pain that i felt from losing giant fish to snap it off very expensive in order to find baits and overall you're just going to have a much better time fishing when you choose the right rod and nowadays there's definitely a lot more swim bit rods out there that are more parabolic especially in like the dobbin series of rods they're very parabolic you look at some of the other guys like f5 as a very parabolic rod leviathan those rods are very parabolic as well but
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Common Fishing Rod Confusions Explained | Rod Action and Power Made Simple by Fish the Moment → crushers however with a moderate action rod it's going to load a little bit slower and allow that fish to get that swim bait all the way in the back of its mouth and get a really solid hookup ratio at the same time though because it's a heavy power rod you can still cast that big swim bait really well on the flip side when you're fishing a bait like a three-quarter on football jig that's on the bottom bass will often eat the entire bait before you even notice that you have a bite in this case you want to be able to set that hook as quickly as possible and that fast action rod is going to load up quicker and deliver the force of your hook set to that hook point a lot faster with the swimbait again you want that delay to let that fish actually eat the bait with the jig you don't need that delay so a fast action rod is actually preferred and again both of these rods have a heavy power so they can cast that three quarter ounce football jig the exact same way as you would a three quarter ounce head on a hollow belly swim bait and so then the tricky part is putting power together with action so if you take the power the weight that you're going to be throwing and then mix it with the action the technique that you're going to be fishing
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How To Choose The Right Rod To Use For Big Swimbaits! Hard Bait And Soft Bait Rods! by crazybassfisher → and how it's parabolic that it allows me to fish those trouble hooks baits without me ripping out hooks from a fish when a fish does inevitably bite your bait so having that parabolic rod is super super important when you're fishing glide baits or just baits in general that have treble hooks and you want to kind of sweep that into them that rod is going to load up and absorb all of the shock from the fish biting turning and you pulling the other way and it's gonna keep those treble hooks buried in the fish's mouth now let's go over towards soft baits okay so for my soft bait rod this is just an eight foot three extra heavy rod by moms now the thing that makes this a soft beat rod is that it's a lot stiffer you see how it does not bend until we get way up here on the blank and then it starts to bend coming up here to the tip now the reason why this is a soft bait rod is because you have basically all this backbone all the way up until here on the rod before it even starts to bend which gives you a really really good hook set when you are fishing a let's say beast hook style beat like a battle shad or if you're fishing a jig hook style bait like a huddleston or a magnum that backbone is gonna help drive that hook
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Five Rod and Reel Setups to Cover Most Anything | How To | Bass Fishing by Bass Fishing Tips & Techniques by BassResource → Again, some of you taller guys would rather
use this kind of rod for flipping and pitching, which is fine. But on top of that, I throw buzzbaits. This is definitely a frogging rod and a toad
rod for sure. That fast-action rod is gonna enable you to
cast that long distances. That longer rod is going to enable you to
pull those fish out of that cover in those long casts, it's going to give you that leverage. This is also an excellent punching rod. So throwing heavier weights into that thicker
cover, you get that fish that's buried in the cover when he bites. So you need a longer rod with more leverage
to pull him out. This rod also makes for an excellent Carolina
rigging rod. And for, you know, medium-size swimbaits,
you have to look on the lure weight rating on the rod to figure out what size you can
throw. But a lot of, you know, larger swimbaits,
this makes a rod excellent for that. So paired with it, I'll use, again, it's a
medium-power, a medium-speed reel like a 7.4 to 7.8 to 1 gear ratio. Because I'm using this for slow-moving baits
and I'm also using it for fast-moving baits like swimbaits. If you're not going to throw a lot of swimbaits
with it or buzzbaits, then you can go down in gear ratio, go down to 6 something. And, again, a strong drag is imperative with
this. Your fishing heavy stuff. This is a stout equipment.
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