The Truth About Catfish Rods

[Music] hey guys I'm dieter milhorn I'm going to go over some catfish rod basics here for folks that one may be starting out or two that are looking to upgrade some of the stuff that they've got I'm gonna go over some of the different things that I've learned a lot of it from mistakes I've made over the years and buying tackle for chasing catfish now if you're starting out don't spend a lot of money that's probably contrary to what a lot of the rod manufacturers want me to say but you don't have to spend a lot of money to start out and I'll be honest with you don't go do it I would rather see you spend a little bit of money and get a rod that may be a little under geared for monster fish than to be intimidated by having to spend 50 70 90 100 120 150 dollars to get one rod combo that will catch all these monster fish here's the deal get something a Walmart combo you can get a spinning rod combo spinning rods easy to go with it's easy to throw not a lot of work and a lot of effort and I'm a lot of learning you can get into some of these for 50 60 bucks put you some twenty pound line on it and rig it up with a decent leader you can catch a lot of fish on that size rod now if you want to up the game a little bit for a little bit more money you can get into something that Shakespeare sells the ugly stick catfish rod everybody knows what an ugly stick is I think they do anyway it's a very popular name in the fishing world they sell them at Walmart too and they're really but readily available in all the big box stores like Academy Bass Pro Shops Cabela's these things you can get into their honor themselves there's about 35 bucks you can get an affordable real for about another forty to sixty dollars now you can go with a more expensive reel a high-end Abu Garcia but there's a lot of stuff out there in that middle range that will keep you under a hundred bucks for a rod and for that with that set up I guarantee you you can catch anything that you hook in to spool up with some twenty or thirty pound line and you're set now granted if you fish in some rivers heavy kind of current that kind of thing is you kind of move and progressed into that going with something a little bit heavier is not a bad idea and that's where a lot of these catfish brand rods come in and what I mean by that is there's a lot of rods out there if you start doing a little research and you're fairly new or if you've been in a bit in the business for a while chasing big catfish you know these names people like catch the fever whisker seeker BM all of these guys make rods that are designed for the catfish angler now which one is the best but be honest with you they're all really really good I'm not going to throw a tag of the best on one I've had a chance to play with a bunch of them fish with a bunch of them and they've all got really good components really well built and you know they're all pretty much in the same price point they all seem to be in that 70 to 90 dollar price point somewhere in there the bad thing about these rods is and what will get you when it comes time to buy one is that most of these catfish brand rods are not widely distributed you can't go to Agra bellas you can't go to an academy you can't go to Walmart to buy one so you are forced to pay shipping if you order one from them and shipping on a rod is expensive don't feel like they're gouging you just the cost of the container and because of its odd long size it's kind of expensive to ship these things so you can end up paying 25 bucks for one rod or for six of them it really doesn't matter it's one of the great things about the catfish conference every year you get it a catfish converse every catfish rod manufacturer in the country is there and it's a great place to get the rods and avoid the shipping cost of bringing them back home with you now which one of these catfish brand rods do you go with well I'm going to be honest take a look at them and see what trips your trigger emotionally I honestly think that is really the big difference between all of them is what the emotional attachment is for you as an angler some people like little subtle things differently it may be what the handle is made out of what the pattern is on the handle the shape of some of the you know real seats or what kind of the bottom line is they're all going to catch fish and out of these rods they'll catch any fish in America period you don't have to worry about that and they'll catch half the fish in the ocean to their will bit built sturdy rods I think a lot of it comes down to an emotional attachment and that may be to the name it may be to the brand it may be to people who make them it may be to the color of the rod I was on two big cat fever for a long time to make a white rod because I love to having white rods on a fishing at night I seen one of the bnm polls that they've got out it's red and if you ever seen my boat you know I like red all I got a red seat I got a red bimini top so it's stuff like that that can really kind of really be the deciding factor so don't feel like if you're looking at getting one of these catfish brand Ron said like oh man I'm gonna make the wrong decision and I'm gonna buy this one when this one was actually better there's really not that big of difference between any of the brands is what you like and what that little subtle difference is that makes you want to buy it now most of these rods I've been talking about are really honestly more designed for anglers fishing from the boat or anglers that are fishing the bank that are not trying to cast a really really long way I know a lot of you guys fishing off the bank try to utilize longer rods to get more leverage and more sling when you get a casting and a lot of these big catfish rod makers aren't building rods that are specific to that market so you may end up going with some of these surf casting rods out there and surf fishing rods some that are designed for saltwater fishing they all work they're all great again I think a lot of that is an emotional attachment to certain little subtle things that are particular to you and your style of fishing and that's the big takeaway and all this guy's is that everybody has some different circumstances and situations and how they're fishing where they're fishing and what they do and some of these subtle differences in some of these different brands are are good they're good for people because it gives them something that may be particularly and appealing to them well folks hopefully this short video gives you a little bit of stuff to think about give me some feedback on this get them on website be normal horn fishing comm you can message me there with any comments or questions that you got and let me know what you think and let me know what else you want to hear about here well folks if you made it this far thank you for watching please consider subscribing and here are a couple of more videos that I think you're gonna like 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Length: 7min 22sec (442 seconds)

Published: Wed Dec 04 2019