Topwater for freshwater and saltwater rod suggestions

[Allew]

Looking for a good topwater rod

 

Line:

30lb braid with a 30-50lb mono leader or just straight braid

 

Reels:

(discontinued) Diawa Lexa 100HL

Diawa Tatula CT Type-R 100XSL

Will accept suggestions for reels

 

Conditions:

Fresh, inshore salt

 

Target fish:

  Fresh- Bass

  Salt- Red drum, Trout, Inshore Jacks, Blue fish, ect.

 

Length:

6'3 - 7'

 

Price Range:

$1-130 for rods

$1-200 for reels

 

Lures:

Spooks Jr, Poppers, Occasionally a jerk bait/suspending lure(mirrolure for salt), Whopper ploppers(90,130 size), ect.

 

If you need more info about what I will be using on the rod, or reel, or any questions in general feel free to comment, I will try to reply back asap.

[fishnkamp]

Honestly most of the serious inshore guys run larger spinning combos, even on top[ water. Perhaps a Penn Battle setup. 

Here in Baltimore we fish for bass and stripers with mostly bass gear. However I know the manager of the fishing department at our local West Marine and he sells a lot of the Penn gear for use all over the Cgespeake Bay including bass, stripers, croakers, spot and even flounder.

I might even try and send Scott Martin an email asking for his choice since Okuma has so many options.  I also recommend you watch some of his you tube videos. Do a search on there for Scott Martin inshore fishing. I did and came up with a bunch of videos.

 

 

[Allew]

18 minutes ago, fishnkamp said:

Honestly most of the serious inshore guys run larger spinning combos, even on top[ water. Perhaps a Penn Battle setup. 

Here in Baltimore we fish for bass and stripers with mostly bass gear. However I know the manager of the fishing department at our local West Marine and he sells a lot of the Penn gear for use all over the Cgespeake Bay including bass, stripers, croakers, spot and even flounder.

I might even try and send Scott Martin an email asking for his choice since Okuma has so many options.  I also recommend you watch some of his you tube videos. Do a search on there for Scott Martin inshore fishing. I did and came up with a bunch of videos.

 

 

I have some good spinning reels and rods, but I just don't like to use them as much as a bait caster, I grew up on baitcasters, and spinning just takes the skill and a little of the precision out of it, and just flat out I am biased to the bait casting community, penn is good yes, but I just dont use spinning gear, even thought I have a few good spinning setups, they are always just there, not being used

[fishnkamp]

Watch this  

 

[WRB]

Irod Freds Magic IRG754F  is 7'5" should work for you. The 100 size reels you have may be marginal in lane capacity and IPT although you have 8:1 gear ratio. 20+ redfish are a handful and can make longer runs than fresh water bass.

Tom

[Allew]

2 hours ago, fishnkamp said:

Watch this  

 

I actually have the reel that Patrick had paired with a different rod. The only one I really use when I'm in tight cover, but still that's not all the time