EP 307: In Pursuit Of The Perfect Inshore Fishing Rod
Salt Strong Fishing
Joe Simonds
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2021
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
For the past five years, we've been in pursuit of the best fishing rod for catching our favorite inshore species (redfish, speckled trout, snook, flounder, mangrove snapper, and grouper).
And through those years we've used a TON of different rods (some from big brands like St. Croix, G. Loomis, TFO, Ugly Stik, etc), some from middle sized brands (like Bull Bay) and some from smaller brands.
We've even had quite a few custom rods made.
So listen in as we share where we've been in terms of rods, what blanks we like the best, along with some rod new discoveries we've been testing.
Enjoy!
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| 0:00.0 | This fish ain't it's in my soul |
| 0:05.0 | Welcome to the Salt Strong podcast |
| 0:08.0 | Disrupting fishing entertainment as you know it |
| 0:11.0 | Prepare to laugh, prepare to get to know fishing legends in a whole new and unfiltered way |
| 0:17.0 | And on occasion, you might even learn a thing or two about fishing |
| 0:20.0 | Here's your host, Joe Simons |
| 0:23.0 | Like Diamonds |
| 0:25.0 | Hello, Salt Strong Nation Joe Simons |
| 0:29.0 | Time is we are back talking about the pursuit of the best |
| 0:33.0 | And this is going to be a tough one to say best but at least in our eyes the best in short fishing rod |
| 0:39.0 | Now this is critical and right off the bat we're going to hit you with something hard |
| 0:43.0 | The rod is more important than the reel |
| 0:45.0 | And like last time we talked about was it simplicity and specialist |
| 0:49.0 | The rod is more important than the reel for years we thought the opposite |
| 0:54.0 | And part of it's you know because of the industry they've done combos and stuff forever as kids you get a combo and you speak |
| 1:00.0 | Oh, yeah, I'm going to get a nice reel and get a free rod with it from my combo |
| 1:04.0 | Truth of the matter is the rod is doing most of the work |
| 1:07.0 | And so we have been on this pursuit to find what we're calling like the perfect rod |
| 1:13.0 | And of course, you know perfection never really happens |
| 1:16.0 | So we're constantly looking for the next one we've used the TFO pro series for a long time |
| 1:21.0 | We've now got a you know custom bolt bay we had another one that we're working on behind the scenes that we're going to talk about |
| 1:26.0 | And we're going to get your feedback as well on what you like in a rod |
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