07-07-2014, 08:39 PM
There is no debate in truth. I grew up packing one rod using a variety of lures catching many species. Creeks, rivers, lakes and ponds, I only owned one rod so I used that one rod.
My daughter has been using the same 5' fiberglass ultralight rod for around five years now. I offer to buy her a new rod but she has no interest, she did let me replace her daiwa underspin reel with a shimano 1000 spinning reel a while back. I have seen her haul in fish bigger than herself lol.
In one day I may hit many type fishing "holes" for many species. I don't have the room to carry a bunch of rods. I may fish one of the local trout streams then fish a tributary for smallmouth and end up in muskie waters at dusk before I fish the early hours of night for catfish. Of course there are days we target panfish for fun or largemouth for sport and its just a half hour drive to good striper water.
There is a functional 2n1 rod for you.
I cast 2"plastic weightless up to several ounces.
My favorite bait personally is a 1/8Oz Texas bullet rigged zoom ultravibe speedcraw in watermelon seed on a 1/0 wormhook, around 10 grams I reckon.
I like a 20 series spinning reel with at least 15lbs of drag. Am currently using a year old quantum accurist pti. I use a 6'6" medium ugly stick gx2 (the 7'm too flimsy imho). Sure there is more sensitive rods, I have owned many rods since my days growing up with just one Zebco 202 combo and later with a new 33 on that same old 5'Mrod.
When it comes to functionality it is. Sore there are better specific options but it will succeed as a many-n-1 setup.
I use 10 pound braid to 10lb fluorocarbon setup but you may prefer 15-20lb for your cod. I spent years using only ultralight setup with 4lb stren for everything including catfish but a snapped rod left me walking miles back to the car to drive even more miles to the gander mountain to not even find a rod in stock I liked as much as the one that broke. No more, just try to focus on mastering the tool.
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My daughter has been using the same 5' fiberglass ultralight rod for around five years now. I offer to buy her a new rod but she has no interest, she did let me replace her daiwa underspin reel with a shimano 1000 spinning reel a while back. I have seen her haul in fish bigger than herself lol.
In one day I may hit many type fishing "holes" for many species. I don't have the room to carry a bunch of rods. I may fish one of the local trout streams then fish a tributary for smallmouth and end up in muskie waters at dusk before I fish the early hours of night for catfish. Of course there are days we target panfish for fun or largemouth for sport and its just a half hour drive to good striper water.
There is a functional 2n1 rod for you.
I cast 2"plastic weightless up to several ounces.
My favorite bait personally is a 1/8Oz Texas bullet rigged zoom ultravibe speedcraw in watermelon seed on a 1/0 wormhook, around 10 grams I reckon.
I like a 20 series spinning reel with at least 15lbs of drag. Am currently using a year old quantum accurist pti. I use a 6'6" medium ugly stick gx2 (the 7'm too flimsy imho). Sure there is more sensitive rods, I have owned many rods since my days growing up with just one Zebco 202 combo and later with a new 33 on that same old 5'Mrod.
When it comes to functionality it is. Sore there are better specific options but it will succeed as a many-n-1 setup.
I use 10 pound braid to 10lb fluorocarbon setup but you may prefer 15-20lb for your cod. I spent years using only ultralight setup with 4lb stren for everything including catfish but a snapped rod left me walking miles back to the car to drive even more miles to the gander mountain to not even find a rod in stock I liked as much as the one that broke. No more, just try to focus on mastering the tool.
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