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I love it. I use it for bombing bigger frogs across mats. It's an F6, but it has d**n good power. It's a little slower rod, so you fight with the belly of the rod more when you have fish and slop on. To me, it's just a little slower perfect pitch, which I personally prefer. I use this rod for pitching/short range punching 1 oz jigs into cattails/reeds as well. It's just been a really versatile rod for me, and I love it.

The carbon head wild bunch is one sweet frog rod in my opinion.

I bought mine when they first came out last year. A 1000,2000, and will be picking up the 2500 this year too, if that tells you anything. Don't have lots of time on them, just from august- late November when the ice rolled in. I think they're awesome.

In curious to hear how it performs. The specs look good on it for what im looking for. I've got awhile before the ice breaks up, so I have time to decide at least

I actually had mike from DVT build me a spinning rod for my smaller jerks (3/8) tricker darters, small pop-r, etc. I wouldn't be against using a spinning in a heavier power for my bigger ones either. Normally when the conditions are right for throwing a jerkbait, It's windy anyways so that may work out better.

Ahh, I forget the second gen orochi bumped up to a 6'11 as well. The orochi xxx oneten stick intrigued me as well. The Croix topwater was one I considering as well. The legend tournament 68mxf.

I will have to check them out, been hearing lots of good about themm.... I'll be interested to hear how it does! I loved my destroyer for it, except the trigger. I haven't tried the orochis, but if anything like the destroyers, it should be one sweet rod. Isnt the orochi a touch shorter at 6'8 as well? I'm gonna see if I can get my hands on the 844. Looking at just the specs and your review, it seems like it may be what I am looking for

Thank you for the suggestion ? actually an MBR843 was one I've been considering

Hey all, I've been doing a lot of digging on this, and even have thoughts of possibly going custom. I am looking for a rod, 6-6 to 7' max, that will be good for throwing the deeper jerkbaits such as Xrap#12, vision 110+1 or vision 110+2, pointer 128s etc. Also bigger topwater baits. 1/2 poppers, spooks etc. I had the MB destroyer oneten special, and it was a awesome rod for it, i just didn't like the trigger on it for these techniques. I don't mind the triggers for everything else, but for jerkbaiting, wasn't for me. Awesome, awesome blank though. I like kind of a faster rod, to give good snaps to these northern smallies, but the rod has to have enough bend to keep those light trebles hooked up. I am normally running 10 or 12 pound co poly and fluoro, depending how much I want to adjust my depth, so that allows me to get away with a little faster rod that I like. I am open to production rods, or suggestions for blanks for a custom, please lemme know what you guys think.

This almost looks like a punch rig I use. Lots of good interesting info here fellas, I like seeing the variations in setups, it gives me a lot to think about/different setups to try this spring/summer. Are you guys fishing these on heavier powered rods to pull em out of the brush/sticks? I know last year I had some trouble with fish wrapping me up in the trees but just figured it was the nature of the game, which I am sure it is to a point. We don't get a lot of big bass up here, 5-6 pounds at the most. But there is notoriously big northern pike in my home lake, 35+ inches. I see a few people like going with more of a worm type bait over a creature style, is that due to the bait slipping through branches and what not better?

Interesting. I will have to try weightless around timber. I've always thrown weightless around more rock/sparse weed cover. On my home lake, it is a man made reservoirs full of submerged old red and white pine, and some cedar. I constantly lit up suspended fish on the graph, but always had a hard time fishing it. I tried heavier weights like 1/2-3/4 but they've never seemed interested, even in lighter weights. I'll have to try throwing a worm on this year and see what happens. Do you adjust your bait size/profile as well? Something like going from a tube to a more beaver/brush hawg type bait?

Thank you for your input. I've tried a few ways of pitching where I am at. Mainly 1/4 oz trigs with a 3.5 inch tube or a 4 inch lizard. I've been using a 3/8 or 1/4 football head jig wise. Mostly I just get hung up though, haha. I am curious if guys use alot of heavier weights for this, like 1/2 or 3/4, or stick to lighter stuff since it's not like throwing stuff into thick grass/milfoil.

I am curious what weights for jigs and trigs, and what kind of plastics you guys pitch in laydowns,timber, stump fields, etc. Also what hooks/jig head style work best for it. Gimme some hints!

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