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Nice lot of links Kuerschie and thanks for going to the trouble.

 

I know where you're coming from and that the search is a good thing and best to try, but I might add that the op is new on the site and will get the hang of things soon. Also, some things can change over time with rods used for any fishing, so what may have been good before may have changed for the better now.

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I run a 400 calcutta matched to a 10ft sensor surf older version which covers metals and lightly weighted pillie baits. Also run a daiwa 8ft egi rod with a smaller 2500 silver luvius for a light option.Also used to run Abu 6500 baitcaster on a custom 6110 snyder like southie. This was a great combo back in the day also. Could really flick an unweighted pillie a long way including covering metal lures too. Lots of choices these days depending on budget. Cheers

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My light rod is a Daiwa Seabass 9'6", I think it's rated 4-8kg, it throws a 20g metal lure plenty far and is great fun fighting fish.

 

 

G'day plankton. A question about your Daiwa Seabass- do you use it much for soft plastics?

How does  it go with 1/4oz jigheads and plastics finesse style?

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My light rod is a Daiwa Seabass 9'6", I think it's rated 4-8kg, it throws a 20g metal lure plenty far and is great fun fighting fish.

 

 

G'day plankton. A question about your Daiwa Seabass- do you use it much for soft plastics?

How does  it go with 1/4oz jigheads and plastics finesse style?

 

 

I don't use it much for sp's myself because I prefer metal lures for salmon flicking, but it's a fast action rod and will work plastics well. I have a couple packets of pre-rigged sp's that I usually carry with me and have gotten out on occaision, they just don't cast as far as the metals. Sweet spot on the rod is 15-20g, so 1/4 jighead and a 4-5" plastic would work well. It also makes a fine LB squidding rod.

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I'm a bit different as I barely chase salmon from a surf beach

Most of my salmon fishing is on the northern flats

I used to use a 7foot 2inch 2-4kg Abu veritas rod with two different reels

A Diawa caldia 2506 or a Abu revo30

This set up cast light poppers and plastics a mile but I've changed to a lighter setup.

Now I use a Azusa 1-3kg 6foot rod with a stradic ci4+ 1000 reel

This is a bream setup but it casts a mile with the lures I use, even further than the Abu setup

It is such a light setup that I can cast all day on the flats and has enough power that it's landed 50cm+ salmon

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My light rod is a Daiwa Seabass 9'6", I think it's rated 4-8kg, it throws a 20g metal lure plenty far and is great fun fighting fish.

 

 

G'day plankton. A question about your Daiwa Seabass- do you use it much for soft plastics?

How does  it go with 1/4oz jigheads and plastics finesse style?

 

 

I don't use it much for sp's myself because I prefer metal lures for salmon flicking, but it's a fast action rod and will work plastics well. I have a couple packets of pre-rigged sp's that I usually carry with me and have gotten out on occaision, they just don't cast as far as the metals. Sweet spot on the rod is 15-20g, so 1/4 jighead and a 4-5" plastic would work well. It also makes a fine LB squidding rod.

 

 

Plankton- Thanks for the info. I've actually had a go of the 86ML and it's very responsive so it would be great for plastics, however I currently have an 8'6 rod for the same purpose and was thinking of upgrading and trying one a little longer. Naturally stores never seem to stock the models you actually want to test.

 

With the extra foot of the 96ML I'm just wondering if plastics flick action gets dampened by the length or weight of the rod. Guess I'll have to order one and find out.

And you read my mind regarding the squidding application.  I had planned on using it for that also.

 

Cheers

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Not sure where you're located, but Fishing Wholesalers usually have the Seabass rods in stock, that's where I got mine, maybe Southie will chime in and let us know.

 

The 9'6" rod  does make it harder to impart subtle little flicks to a soft plastic, I use more of a lift and drop method which works fine off the beach. You're obviously not going to get the finesse of a 6-7' bream rod, but with bigger 4-5" sp's it gets the job done well enough.

 

I'm located southern metro and am happy to let you have a cast with mine if you like before you spend your hard earned on something you may not like. PM me if you're interested.

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Not sure where you're located, but Fishing Wholesalers usually have the Seabass rods in stock, that's where I got mine, maybe Southie will chime in and let us know.

 

The 9'6" rod  does make it harder to impart subtle little flicks to a soft plastic, I use more of a lift and drop method which works fine off the beach. You're obviously not going to get the finesse of a 6-7' bream rod, but with bigger 4-5" sp's it gets the job done well enough.

 

I'm located southern metro and am happy to let you have a cast with mine if you like before you spend your hard earned on something you may not like. PM me if you're interested.

 

Yeh mate we usually carry the range of Daiwa Seabass. They are out of stock at the moment due to their high popularity for the great price they are.... They sell for around the $139 mark... If your interested in one send me a message and i'll put it on our Order for the week...

 

In regards to plastics as Plankton said it does make it harder to work plastics but it is doable....  They are nice rod the whole range is pretty sweet. If interested let me know

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