Why is my rod not considered a cranking rod?

[wasabi_VA]

I have a ton of fishing rods as I fish for a variety of different species, but only a handful of rods I consider my main bass fishing rods. Lately I have been using these two casting rods, with the Dobyn's being my primary rod as I just cast better with it.

 

Dobyn's Fury 703c MH/F

St. Croix Mojo MJC68MHF

 

Both are MH/F although the Mojo feels a little stiffer. I fished shallow cranks last weekend and the Dobyn's felt fine. Why is neither rod considered a cranking rod and what does one want in a cranking road that these rods don't have? Maybe they are doing OK because I'm only shallow cranking and not dealing with as much resistance a deeper diving crank would produce?

 

I have several M/F spinning rods I use for lighter plastics.

 

 

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Yeah, the Fury 703 makes for a decent enough mid depth not to large cranking rod, it won't handle deep diving larger cranks well. Dobyns markets the Fury as an all around rod. Only you can decide what a rod is good for or not based on what and how you fish, regardless of how it is labeled or marketed.

[Fishin Dad]

Any rod can work for cranking.  Most rods that are labeled “cranking rods” have a more moderate taper.  This can help with casting as well as keeping fished pinned with treble hooks.  That is the simple answer.   There is more to it if/when you dive deeper down the rabbit hole.  

[Catt]

Why is my rod not considered a cranking rod?

 

Cause you didn't tell it was!

 

What makes up a crankbait rod is personal preference...period.

 

 

[Tennessee Boy]

You can buy labels to put on the rod to make it any kind of rod you want.  ?

[msgf91]

I had the opposite happen where I bought a spinning rod labeled as ML/F but I feel like it's more M/mod whippy with power.  It was my DS rod but now I repurposed it as a 1/4 ounce crankbait rod. 

[Catt]

As good as Gary Loomis is at building rods I don't need him telling me what I like in a crankbait rod.

 

I've brought a rod on Friday heading to the lake & returned it Monday.

[Deleted account]

2 hours ago, Tennessee Boy said:

You can buy labels to put on the rod to make it any kind of rod you want.  ?

 

LOL. I'm picturing a customizable shrink wrap sleeve that comes out of a P-Touch type thing, call it Global Label Xtreme, so you can have GLX in bold type above the specs...

[FishTank]

It definetly can be a personal thing. What they put on rods are just a guide line. It all depends on how the rod feels to you. For me, I wouldn't fish most rods that are listed as Fast for crankbaits. Just my personal preference but I do have a few I like for them. One in particular is the St. Croix Mojo Yak Med Fast. This rod is just softer all around.  I also have a few Megabass rods that I can use for just about anything. They are listed as Medium Fast to Regular. 

 

1 hour ago, Catt said:

As good as Gary Loomis is at building rods I don't need him telling me what I like in a crankbait rod.

 

I've brought a rod on Friday heading to the lake & returned it Monday.

Just curious,  what rod was it?

[casts_by_fly]

3 hours ago, Tennessee Boy said:

You can buy labels to put on the rod to make it any kind of rod you want.  ?

 

39 minutes ago, Deleted account said:

 

LOL. I'm picturing a customizable shrink wrap sleeve that comes out of a P-Touch type thing, call it Global Label Xtreme, so you can have GLX in bold type above the specs...

 

 

Sharpie on the cork. That will take care of it.

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1 minute ago, casts_by_fly said:

Sharpie on the cork. That will take care of it.

 

I have 2 or more of the same rod for a lot of things, and I code them with dots on the bottom of the cork, they look like dominos, habit from my tennis days when no 2 racquets were the same, not to mention the stringing. 

[casts_by_fly]

1 minute ago, Deleted account said:

 

I have 2 or more of the same rod for a lot of things, and I code them with dots on the bottom of the cork, they look like dominos, habit from my tennis days when no 2 racquets were the same, not to mention the stringing. 

 

I do the same with chatterbaits and crankbaits.  I'll just sharpie right on the blade or the body what the depth or weight is.  It will wear off eventually, but I'll know when I pull it out of the box and that's all that matters.

[WRB]

I made a cranking rod using Fenwick Popping rod because it was easy to launch 1/4 oz lipless up to 1 oz DD22 crank baits. Also my structure spoon rod. 
This rod was made to cast floats with live shrimp for bone fish.

Replaced Fenwick with OTS Loomis PR845C popping rod.

If you can cast your crank baits with ease use the the Dobyns Fury rod you have, just set the drag at 3 lbs.

Tom

[Catt]

3 hours ago, FishTank said:

Just curious,  what rod was it?

 

It was a G. Loomis, don't recall the model. 

 

When I retired for the Aerospace Industry I went to work for Academy. I took a District Manager on the river fishing. He got a spinnerbait hung in a cypress tree & was yanking trying to get it free. What he didn't realize was that big red thing a couple branches over was a hornet's nest. I cut his line cranked the outboard. In the confusion he stepped on my worm rod. He said he would buy any rod I wanted. I picked a Shimano Crucial CRC-X610MH 6' 10" Medium Heavy X-Fast. By far the most sensitive worm rod I ever owned. 

 

I returned the broken G Loomis for another. Went to the lake on Friday & returned it on Monday for another identical Crucial.

[JediAmoeba]

9 hours ago, wasabi_VA said:

I have a ton of fishing rods as I fish for a variety of different species, but only a handful of rods I consider my main bass fishing rods. Lately I have been using these two casting rods, with the Dobyn's being my primary rod as I just cast better with it.

 

Dobyn's Fury 703c MH/F

St. Croix Mojo MJC68MHF

 

Both are MH/F although the Mojo feels a little stiffer. I fished shallow cranks last weekend and the Dobyn's felt fine. Why is neither rod considered a cranking rod and what does one want in a cranking road that these rods don't have? Maybe they are doing OK because I'm only shallow cranking and not dealing with as much resistance a deeper diving crank would produce?

 

I have several M/F spinning rods I use for lighter plastics.

 

 

I will say if you have never used a cranking rod for cranking, you probably won't like it. They take some getting used to but do pin fish better and you get a better hook-up to landing percentage. 

[Darth-Baiter]

i think a rod labeled for Cranking just tells the person shopping that it is ideally set up for reaction baits with treble hooks.   you get the slower response from your hookset, so you dont knee-jerk the bait out of the bass', mouth..and you get the deep rod parabola to gently dampen the fish fight to keep the hooks from flinging out of the mouth from the hard bait swinging around like a pendulum.  plus the moderate tip catapults crankbaits which are kinda wierd to cast to begin with. 

 

NOTHING says you can take that same parabolic rod and have a good time with bottom contact...maybe not with long casts and mono line.  it is all marketing jargon.  

 

i cant even cast my friends fiberglass cranking rod.  it feels so foriegn to me.  

[Columbia Craw]