Crankbait Rod For Around 50 Dollars?

[ww2farmer]

I do all of my cranking/treble hook work with Lightning Rods, and Lightning Rod Shock's

 

6'6" M : target casting 1.5 sized squarebills, 1/4 oz lipless baits, jerkbaits, and topwaters.

 

6'6" MH: target casting 2.5 sized squarebills, 1/2 oz. lipless baits, larger topwaters

 

7' M: ripping 1.5's and 1/4 oz lipless baits out of grass, wiggle warts, 3xd's

 

7'MH: ripping 2.5's and 1/2 oz lipless baits out of grass, 5xd's

 

7'6" H: 3/4 oz lipless baits, 6xd's

 

These rods are a little softer than most fast action rods, yet not noodles either, which makes them great "All purpose" rods when fished with braid ( which I do, even for cranking). For example, I have 4 of the 7' MH shocks, one with a 7.3:1 reel spooled with 50lb braid as my frog rod, one with a 6.3:1 reel spooled with 20lb braid that I fish 2.5's, 1/2 oz lipless baits, and 5xd's with, another with a 7.3:1 reel spooled with 30lb braid as a pitching/plastics/jig rod, and the last one with another 6.3:1 reel spooled with 30 lb braid as my swimjig/spinnerbait/buzzbait/chatterbait rod.

[OkobojiEagle]

Berkley Lightning Rod or Shakespeare Ugly Stick...

 

 

 

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[Bluebasser86]

Academy Composite Cranker

[gulfcaptain]

Academy Composite Cranker

X 3.  Their H20 series.  They have two I believe, one that is 7' and the other 7'6",  And you can crank with straight braid, just make sure you back the drag off some so you don't rip hooks out.

[Felix77]

Check your local WalMart ... I just scored a Skeet Reese crankbait rod for $40.   Thought it was a mistake but they had them all priced that way.  Remembered this post and thought I would share.

[UCPOPO]

X 3.  Their H20 series.  They have two I believe, one that is 7' and the other 7'6",  And you can crank with straight braid, just make sure you back the drag off some so you don't rip hooks out.

 

I believe there is only the 7' medium and a 7'10" magnum cranker in the  Ethos composite models with cork grips and regular Fuji Alconite guides.  I picked the only 7"10 model I've seen with cork the other day for $39.  Wish they would have had more of them.

[gulfcaptain]

My mistake, you are correct.

[Kevin22]

You dont need anything special for SB cranks. Just a med or medhvy, probably mh for 1/2oz, graphite rod with some bend to it. You dont want a broomstick. If you are throwing deep divers then that is different. I bet you have a rod that will work just fine. Use 14-17# mono/fluoro anf youll be fine.

[kikstand454]

If you have a dicks sporting goods store, pick up a field and stream inferno. It's red. It's $30.

I got one of these ( two piece) rods to take on vacation smallie fishing last year, and it worked so well ( caught plenty of fish on a t-rig....inckuding the smallie in my avatar) -that when I got home, I got one for my kayak. 7'mh/f. I put my curado200 on it and went at it. That rod has been dunked in salt, bent completely over lipling fish at the side of my yak, tons of speckled trout, sailcats, insane drag pulling spanish makeral and landed many many redfish -two over 27". It is still going strong. This is much much more abuse than a typical bass rod. It is fairly sensitive as well as I have caught many a sheepshead ( real saltwater ones....the bite feels like a mosquito farting) with this $30 rod.

Not too long ago I picked up a 7'6" heavy/fast......and it has just the right amount of action to be an AWESOME deep cranking rod. I couldn't be happier.

Great rods for the money- even though they are two piece. Check them out. I'm going to get two more 7'mh/f as my inshore kayak rods.

[jitterbug127]

Those inferno rods are really good. I've got two. Nit as nice as my duckett but good

[kikstand454]

Oh.....agreed......no doubt. I am not trying to remotely say that they're in that league. Ive got a garage full of rods that are "better" and "nicer" than the f&s inferno.

But for $30 it is a solid rod that fishes double its price. I like it better than both versions of the lightening rod, berkley amp, cherry wood and anything Shakespeare. It's more on par TO ME with the box stores' mid level rods- bps extreme for instance- at half the price.

[WPCfishing]

I recently bought a Shock rod. I wanted a 6' MH casting rod. Berkley was one of very few who offer a 6 footer. I'm surprised how nice a rod it is. $50.00 at BP 40.00 at Walmart. I bought from BP.