3 Walleye Rods You Need

what's going on guys we are back with another video it is very late at night right now i edited the entire night last night fished the entire day today and i'm rigging rods in the boat scrolling through youtube comments late at night and uh wanted to make a quick video and it's something that you guys ask for a lot it's uh basically about rods you know what kind of action rods do you do this with do you want a medium heavy do you want a medium light do you want a medium extra fast a lot of different questions about rod actions and i don't want to over complicate anything in this video i don't want to make this thing too far over anybody's head i don't want to make it feel like you guys have to go out and buy a 500 route i don't want to make it feel like you would have to go out and buy a 100 route if you don't want to right but if you are getting into walleye fishing um if you maybe been into walleye fishing or getting more serious into walleye fishing these are kind of the three models of rods that are kind of must haves in my book as far as what you want that can kind of fish a lot of different presentations right i'm sure can you get by with one rod absolutely you can get by with one rod and do anything you want and go catch a ton of fish and have a ton of fun but um if you want to kind of up your game a little and kind of the cool part about a lot of rod manufacturers in the last several years is they're starting to make technique specific rods right and uh you know as you know walleye fishermen get smarter and manufacturers get smarter they're making models that fit our needs right and that's a great thing so these like i said these are the three pretty much must-have walleye rods um that you know that i want in my boat at all times right and we're not talking about necessarily um trolling planer boards and stuff like that today we're talking about like you know your spitting rods for the most part right most of us are probably spinning around guys if we're walleye anglers besides some random trolling application stuff for the most part so don't feel like you have to spend a ton of money on a rod don't feel like you have to go out and buy anything i'm talking about but look for these attributes that i'm talking about when i talk about a model and why i like that and find a rod that fits your price point that you like and that has those attributes you're gonna be much happier with the style of fishing you're gonna do with that rod so we're gonna dive right into it like i said three rods the first one um this is a six nine medium fast now what do i use this for this is my power jig fishing rod i do a lot of power fishing stuff with this rod right now this is the heaviest rod in the lineup that i have that i use day in day out now what do i do with this rod i snap jig and jig a lot of heavy lures something like this right here this is a 3 8 ounce google light jig with a snap minnow on there or jerk minnow on there i do a lot of stuff like this so i'm snap jigging the spring with like a quarter ounce i'm using this right if i'm doing jigging wrapping i like this rod also i'll kind of fluctuate between mono and braid but the reason this is this medium fast um versus having a rod that is softer than this is because when you were really cracking on this bait and we'll kind of air some footage right here when you're cracking on this bait you don't want that tip to go right after you snap it you want that thing to be clean and crisp snap pop you know snap that bit pops up you want it to be very responsive like that and because generally i'm fishing bigger baits on this rod like this is the same route i throw a lot of rappler ripping wraps on in the summer months uh or in the spring months in green bay when i'm down there and in the summer months sometimes the fish are real aggressive um you know this is meant for fishing heavier baits it's meant for throwing them far working them hard and setting the hook hard and this is a great rod i've absolutely fallen in love with this route this is a six nine medium fast and one thing you'll kind of notice if you go back and forth between rod manufacturers is um you know one rod might be a six nine medium fast and a rod in a different model might be a six nine medium light from a different company both those rods might feel the same right but basically what you want is you don't want a ton of tip play in these rods right you want them relatively tight up top you can see this rod is obviously flexing but it doesn't have a ton of load throughout the rod and it's not going to load up a lot when i'm fishing a heavier bait right versus if you took a medium light or a light action rod and tried to fish these bigger presentations as you're working that bait and snapping it that rod's going to flex like this this one's going to flex about like that right so it's very clean very crisp and if you do hit a fish hits you while you're on the bottom you almost hook that fish on the next snap versus if you're fishing a real soft rod what happens a lot is that rod's just going to load up like that right it's going to be much more difficult to do those snappy aggressive presentations on a very soft rod versus something like this so this is the rod i use for a lot of my power fishing application stuff look for something that's six eight to like seven foot medium fast right and some rods you might be okay with like a medium extra fast too this is kind of my preference on this and this is just a great all-around rod right you can like drake tubes for smallmouth with a combo like this you could do a lot of different backs applications with the rod like this a lot of different walleye applications around like this but normally if i'm bombing big stuff around fishing for big hungry walleyes this is the setup that i'm using so um something that fits something like this you know stay away from medium lights if you're looking to get into something that's a snap jig rod and on this i'm pretty much always running unless i'm fishing a jigging wrap pretty much always running 10 or 15 pound braid down to a fluorocarbon leader and most time i tie in like 10 or 12 pound leads sometimes higher depending on kind of what i'm doing and where i'm doing it but that's a pretty simple standard issue power fishing jig setup right i don't fish a lot of live bait on this combo this is meant for my big artificial stuff that i'm chucking around so that kind of wraps up that one as your first round the something six nine six ten six eight medium fast something like that um that's kind of rated a little bit more and i can look and see what this one's rated for um let's see here 1 8 to one half right something in that size that's definitely rated for some of your bigger stuff right so moving on what's the next one now here's another rod that i use as a jig rod but has a ton of different applications you can do with it right and this is like your live bait jig rod um your length can probably vary a little bit more on this i tend to like a little bit longer rods when i'm fishing live bait and i'll kind of get to that but this is a 7 3 medium light fast right whenever i'm fishing live bait i generally like that little bit lighter action because it gives me a little bit more play in the tip and you're going to see the difference right away between the last two rods look how that rod loads in the tip a lot more tip play in this rod right and that's because that's that medium light it's going to load up a little bit farther down and it's going to take less weight overall to load up now the reason i like you know a lot of guys might like their six foot they're six foot six for fishing live bait i do a lot of times i'm fishing live bait i'm doing a lot of casting right and the shorter you have a rod the harder you have to throw something to get it out there where a longer rod like this and this seven foot seven three you know style um it helps get that bait out there without having to whip that thing a chance throwing a crawler off throwing your minnow off and what do i have rigged up on this rod right now pretty much what almost always stays on this rod is an eighth ounce jig right for fishing live bait um this week i've been fishing crawlers deep but just kind of pulling them along i've been doing this on relax i've been doing this around hayward um a great technique obviously in the summer in the spring i'm throwing a fat head on there um you know there's in the fall i'm gonna be throwing a sucker minnow on here maybe go up to a quarter ounce here but this is my favorite live bait rod and the reason in a live bait rod especially with the jig application you want load in the tip is so that if that fish hits and you don't feel it when you start that next jig stroke what's going to happen is that you can load that tip up a little bit and feel that fish on there right and then you know you have to set the hook before just slowly pulling up and starting that next jig most of us aren't snap jigging live bait because that's generally your bait just falls off so when you go to pick up that bait again you want a little bit of softness there at that medium light provides so basically you can sense that fish and then set the hook versus just jigging it right out of his mouth pretty much so that's kind of the setup there once again on this route i have a pissy fun carbon x 2000 with 10-pound braid and a 10-pound fluorocarbon leader you don't have to go heavy on this because it is almost impossible to put 10 pounds of pressure on a fish with a setup like this right this is kind of your finessey but not crazy light action rod now even though it's a medium light you can catch 10 12 pound walleyes on this no problem we've got plenty of muskies accidentally on this stuff um so you what you don't want is basically a rod that's going to flex a lot down in here you definitely want a rod that's going to have some tip play and generally most the rods that i have fish with in my life that i like doing this with are kind of that 6 10 7 foot 7 2 this one's a 7 3 in that medium light action right and this this is my number one live bait jig rod 100 hands down now what else can you do with this well you can really cast a lot of real finessy things with this um this is a great rod for like you know like fishing a ned rig on a light head for small mouth um you could even like drop shot with this rod it's a great rod for doing a lot of different things and it definitely takes the cake for me as far as my favorite um yeah like i said live bait g rod so that's a 7 3 medium light fast action i really like this rod super light and yeah that's pretty much that one if you're looking for a live bait jig rod look for something that fits what i was just talking about right and one thing you're going to see with this rod before we kind of go on to the next one is like i said it loads a lot in the tip but i don't have a lot of load like right in the in the mid section of this rod right this rod still has a lot of backbone for setting the hook on a long cast right and that is why it's a great jig rod now kind of moving on this is the one that is the most finessy and probably the most unique um of each of these three rods but it's one rod that i would not not want to have in my boat right so this is basically my live bait rigging rod this is my slip bobber rod my lindy rigging and a lot of things like that where i'm fishing live bait in more of a stationary sense and this is a 7 6 medium light action rod now this rod will kind of air some footage right here but it loads up very deep into the rod like here's me catching the fish on a lindy rig this is also like i said the route i use for slip bobbers and the reason i like this little bit of extra length on a rod that does these two things in this seven and a half foot is because of this long sweeping hooks that you get whether you're fishing a slip bobber whether you're fishing a lindy rig one thing stays the same when you go to catch up to that fish you want that big long sweep because a lot of times you're not sure if you're you know you already have a direct line to that fish or if that fish is running around with lindy rig or if the same thing with a slip fiber you're not sure if you got that you know that bobber all the way down you have a direct hook set but having that real long sweeping swing helps a ton when it comes to hooking fish on these presentations i have a lindy rig tied up on here right now and this combination has been catching a lot of fish for me in the past week and the reason i like a medium light versus like a straight medium is the same thing a lot of times when i'm fishing live bait especially rigging i really like to have even a softer tip than i do um like with the jig rod with my live bait jig route right and the reason for that is i want to be able to load this tip up and tell when i'm getting stuck in rock i want to have be able to have that tip load up a lot you know and a lot of times when you get bit on a lindy rig what happens is that thing will load up and you'll feel go and that's right when you open up that bail let that fish run right and then obviously eventually close the bale reel down and crack that fish and this rod has plenty of power and plenty of swing to catch fish um when you're rigging this is also the route that i do a lot of like when i'm pulling spinners by hand like here's a great clip here and the reason i like this rod is the same reason i like it for everything else i do with this rod it's that i can hold that rod way outside the boat it's a longer spinning rod seven and a half foot long and the rod is constantly loaded up under the pressure i got a ton of sensitivity and when that fish bites on the spinner what happens is almost the same thing when i bite on lindy rig generally what happens is that rod's gonna you're gonna feel a fish go he doesn't know he's hooked yet but he's already pretty much you know as good as cot because what we want is that rod to load up slow fish doesn't sense it doesn't sense it doesn't sense it you do that big swing forward and he's already got it right a too stiff of a rod that fish is going to feel a lot of pressure right when he bites that bait right because you're moving away from that fish so that is kind of why i like these longer softer seven and a half foot rods for doing a lot of this rigging type stuff a lot of this pulling spinners by hand type stuff and a lot of my slip bobber stuff well hopefully this helped you guys out um you know don't have to go out and buy these rods i'll go ahead and link them down below if you want to check some of this stuff out but you know we get asked a ton of questions on a lot of this stuff and if you are looking to pick up a rod for any of these applications or maybe all of these applications look for a rod that has these attributes um you know depending on obviously what you know void you want to fill in your wallet arsenal right and you should be on the right track is any of this cut and dry black and white this is what everybody's going to say absolutely not these are the rods that i like for doing what i do and uh it covers a very wide variety of the walleye spectrum right there's not a whole lot you can't do with any of these rods in fact there's pretty much nothing you can't do besides maybe pull a planer board behind the boat but thank you guys for watching um i gotta finish rigging rods and get on the road early in the morning for another adventure um yeah appreciate it thanks for watching if you're not yet please subscribe stay tuned for more

Channel: Tom Boley

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Id: 1049SDnmxW0

Length: 13min 59sec (839 seconds)

Published: Wed Aug 12 2020