Thanks for the info fellas. Dwight, you hit it right on the head. I do an annual fishing trip in Northern Canada every year (north spirit lake lodge in Ontario) and fell in love fishing for pike, walleye and lakers. Pike hits were easy to tell even using my old walmart combos i originally started on but for walleyes i noticed i wasnt feeling hits...every time i pulled in my line the worm/dead shad had disappeared. I switched up to plastics and jigging and still couldnt differentiate between rocks,cover or bites. my buddy was fishing this same loomis rod, let me use it, and bam I felt everything. The sensitivity was brilliant. Landed many nice walleye and pike, even caught some perch on his rod until he finally wrestled it from my arms. In Illinois were I mainly fish for bass I had the same issue and again his loomis out fished my $50 combos. I'm sure part of it is because I'm a novice but the gear really improved my success. What do you think about spoons, the MGX should give a nice recovery on spoons especially pulling them out of heavy cover? I mainly use braid so I'll definately loosen the drag as you suggested.
Also, I just got into crank baits. Was thinking of pairing a veritas Winch 7' medium with a 2013 abu revo winch 5.4:1. Where along the quality scale would that setup land? Am I better off going with a GLX crank rod...although I dont know about spending all that dough on one application specific rod. Thoughts?
