Xxxh Musky Rod?

[livetofish28]

I was looking through the St Croix website today and I happened to find my way into the premier musky rods. As I was looking through it I saw an XXXH rod with a line rating of 60-100# and a lure weight of 8-30 ounces. What would you need something that heavy for?

[Dwight Hottle]

Big baits. A bulldog pounder weighs 16 oz.

[livetofish28]

Wow I thought that was just a name of it that's crazy thanks

[Snakehead Whisperer]

I was looking through the St Croix website today and I happened to find my way into the premier musky rods. As I was looking through it I saw an XXXH rod with a line rating of 60-100# and a lure weight of 8-30 ounces. What would you need something that heavy for?

Like Dwight says, some muskie baits are heavy. 

 

A lot of non-bass anglers wonder the same thing about fishing 30-60lb. braid for frogging/punching. Muskie anglers have some pretty far out techniques.

[SirSnookalot]

It's more about the weight of the lures and any cover you may have to deal with, the average muskie may run 25-30#.  I now some of the tuna fishermen are using 40-80# rods for yellow fin.  Tarpon hunters targeting fish in the 125 # + will use a 50# conv. and some use 25- 40# spinning rods, key is reels with a lot of line capacity.  I no longer target 100# fish anymore due to being 67 and 135#, and have jumped up to a 40# spinning rod with a 7000 Penn conquer for some pelagic species (holds about 325 yds 30# braid), it handles amberjacks that on average will be 30-50 pounds.  An important factor in rod selection when targeting certain species is how they fight, some are deep runners and some are more surface runners.

[S Hovanec]

 What would you need something that heavy for?

 

For throwing one of these:

 

 

 

 

It's called a 2 Pounder....but this one only weighed 26oz!

[Lucky Craft Man]

Now who would be crazy enough to try and cast a 2 Pounder?  ;-)

[S Hovanec]

Probably the same guy that was trying to heave a 30oz lead weight over my back fence with that rod pictured above!

[tomustang]

Could you imagine getting a 2 pound lure stuck underwater..

[The Young Gun]

St Croix is quality, but I couldn't see getting a rod worth that much.. I'm using a Tackle Industries XXh 4-12oz rod and for 90% of people I think that does the trick.. 
Unless you have a bulldawg obsession with pounders..

[tomustang]

St Croix is quality, but I couldn't see getting a rod worth that much.. I'm using a Tackle Industries XXh 4-12oz rod and for 90% of people I think that does the trick.. 

Unless you have a bulldawg obsession with pounders..

 

Different strokes for different folks.

[Mattlures]

13 inches long and 14 oz

[SPEEDBEAD.]

That's about as big of a production swimbait as you are EVER going to see.

 

The only thing that even gets close to the mass of that thing that went to production is probably the OG 10" Freestyle.

[Capt.Bob]

Yes sir it is a young mans sport, I am a little busted up but my days of throwing double tens is over, and they were not as hard on me as the pounders and big divers. I used to love thowing them all day long hour after hour just to get a couple shots at a 50+ incher once a season. I found a 50 inch fish doesn't come along every year, even fishing Indiana and Michigans rearing lakes for Muskie and when you do, just because you have 65 Lbs. Braid and the right stick don't mean your going to land them. They know where and how to find the cover!! I haqve sold most of it as throwing and retreaving those lures all day become to much for the aging body, I now troll or use live bait when I target these freshwater waterwolfs!!