7' Medium Light Casting Rod

[ibobpeb]

ML is my favorite power and I use it for drop shots, weightless senkos, light texas rigs, squarebills, and jerkbaits. Heck, I even used it for a Whopper Plopper 90 and while the rod loaded a little too much on the retrieve, I caught a 4.5 pound largemouth and 6 pound northern pike with no issues.

I started having problems when another fish swam under 30 pounds of weedy grass and I had to paddle my canoe out to get him out- had it been a MH rod I couldve just horsed him out of the grass, but with the ML I have to be more careful. It depends on the cover I'm fishing. In the middle of summer I can't use my ML much because it's nearly impossible to rip lures out of weeds without breaking off, but it is by far my favorite power to fish. In order of most liked: ML, M, MH, UL, H.

[Master Bait'r]

I use my ML probably more than my M rod.  It's a spinning rod but it's just really versatile and does a lot of things exceedingly well.  Also as much as I would love a ML casting rig, the spinner is just the more versatile move.  Sure pixies and pressos are cool and fun but they just don't handle the 1/16th baits like a spinning reel can.  I keep the finesse BC reel on my MXF rod and the spinning reel on the MLXF.  It just works better for the weights and baits I use.