Wanted to report on this rod as it was the first rod I have ever bought sight unseen.  I have one of the Lexa Flippin sticks and really enjoy this rod for brush hogs but wanted a spinning rod for light applications this winter....drop shot...small shakey heads etc.  Well....this rod is a 7' 2" med light that has a TON of backbone.....a TON.  It's rated for 4-12 but this rod has some serious shoulders.  At least for this guy.  Used the rod with eight pound power pro and  a 6 lb silver thread leader and caught the tar out of the big smallies yesterday and only broke one off on a hook set so was a good day.  Believe come spring may use this rod for a larger shakey heads as it will fill the bill nicely.  Anyway love to start fishing with a new rod and it catches first time out....yup...really do.

Tight Lines

Nice review! Good to know as

I've handled the Lexa rods several

times at BPS but never pulled the

trigger.

Cool I might have to look in to one.

In he past, DAIWA rods have been known to be underrated in terms of power. My m zillion has the power of a mh and my mh is basically a h. I try to take that into account when browsing their stuff.

Good to see a review of these rods though. The Lexa seems to have been the seguay to the tatula and kinda got lost in the shuffle.