Hey everyone, I am in the market for a topwater/jerkbait rod and had my eyes on this rod (they are 50% off at my local Dicks). Does anyone have any experience with this particular rod, or Wright and Mcgill in general? 

 

If not, do you guys recommend another rod???

 

-Gabe

I use Wright & McGill Skeet Reese rods and Duckett Micro Magics, I love them both. I've got 2 W&M shaky head/senko spinning rods, 6'6" cranking, 7' cranking, 7' spinnerbait/worm, 7'2" (heavy) and jig/worm rods and I love them. I've had no problems with any of them whatsoever and I fish 30 hours a week on average with them. I like the fact that most of these rods have a little tip action to them, and still plenty of backbone to get fish in the boat. I haven't had any issues with guides, no breakages, no grip faults or anything really. For $100 they're incredible rods. You'll be really happy with the W&M rods. And not to mention I found half of mine on sale for $25-$40 ! So while I don't have experience with W&M's jerkbait rod I have plenty of time in with the ones I have and can't say enough about them. My oddball of the group is my St. Croix Mojo Bass top water/ jerkbait rod which is an excellent rod. So there's another good option for ya but I'd say get the W&M, good price, great rod. I really hope that helps, it can be overwhelming picking tackle . I've found the W&M Skeet Reese rods and Duckett Micro Magics are good rods for me.

My pa in law fishes the skeet rods exclusively , and has since they first came out. He finally broke one this past weekend. .... after. ....what....7-8+ years of steady tournement fishing?

So yeah, at half price you should be just fine!

The rod that you listed is not the micro honeycomb, it is an s-curve. I love mine and have never had any problems out of them.

I had the senko/shakey head rod.  IMO it felt dead in my hands so I sold it.