before calling and well it is the weekend. I have a 6'6 MHF avid, i bought for top water, well to me it is way over rated maybe more of a 6'6 H. i took it out once and landed 1 fish, i bellieve i need just a MF rod. Do you think they would let me trade it, i know there is the trade up plan, but if i wanted another avid but a M ; do you think they would charge a great deal? just wondering, anyone have expericance with them on the phone or would email be better? I would just keep mine and get another, but a 150 plus rod is very out of the budget right now

If you bought recently, bring it back and exchange it

i bought in march while on sale, i cant exchange, I bought it at dicks and they only carry mojo and triumphs, the manager told me a customer ordered it from dicks.com and returned it to the store new. i can return t fora gift card but then again still no good

Perhaps you can order in store since they have them in stock online abd have it shipped, maybe you can pay for the medium when it arrives then return the other for gift card toward medium

hell, didnt think of that, though the sucky part is i beleive they are 180 online and it was marked to 100, but again that has been awhile and i dont have the receipt some maybe the will swap, i will check it out tomor

The rod is most likely the older version avid. Dicks ran a huge clearance on them over the winter. St. Croix wouldnt let you send it in for a "swap" but you could send it to them and they would send you the avid you want for shipping cost plus 10% depreaction value per year based on your rods age. Go to st. Croixs website it will tell you how to check the date on your rod based on the ID above the handle.

The value of your rod is 190. So if your rod is 5 years old you would get a 95$ credit for your avid (190*10%)*(5)-95$ depreciation 190-95-95. So the 66mf is 180 plus 20$ shipping . 200-95 you would owe 105 plus 10$ shipping to them.

Not worth it IF you have an old rod. Your rod goes up 19$ per year so check the date of it.

St. Croix would certainly let you trade it in towards a legend series rod, using the above posters depreciation values. Not sure they would do an avid for avid swap, though. Call them at 800-826-7042. When prompted connect to ext. 139. It doesn't hurt to ask

What is the first letter in the rods serial #? That denotes the year of manufacture. For example, "G"= 2008, "H"=2009, "I"= 2010. ETC. They do not accept trade ins manufactured prior to 2001 though.

St. Croix would certainly let you trade it in towards a legend series rod, using the above posters depreciation values. Not sure they would do an avid for avid swap, though. Call them at 800-826-7042. When prompted connect to ext. 139. It doesn't hurt to ask

yes, they definitely would. The avid line was revamped around 3-4 years ago.

thanks guys, i did not know dicks carried them, back then, mine never did, maybe i need to look at the new revaamps then, cause i love everything about this rod except the power, my luck the new avid has a new split grip handle

thanks and mine is a I so 2010

Ok, here is another opinion. I don't know what you have for a worm rod, but this Avid is perfect for soft plastics. Keep it and get another cheaper rod for Topwater if money is the issue. Try it with worms and soft plastics before you give up on it. If you got it for $100, no way should you return it. I sure wouldn't.

BTW, St. Croix does not overrate their rods. Other companies might underrater theirs, but Croix's are rated correctly for bass fishing in my opinion.

thats just it, i have a setup for C rigs, and 2 for T rigged plastics, plus a setup for wacky so idk