With braids.  You need almost no hook set swings. Add in that I am barbeless.  The fish is hooked easily. Keep a no slack line.. Rod vertical or bent back a little.

 

If  I lose a great jumper fish  I accept that he was lucky or better than me.  No problem & I enjoyed the contest.

 

Catching perch for food. 10# test & big barbed trebles.  Reel fast & in the boat. Cut the gill arteries to drain some blood out Into the big ziplock in ice water.

 

 

Those are my 2 styles.

This literally has nothing to do with this topic......

 

 

The size of the weed stems RULES when a fish dives & wraps around a couple. BRUTE force can be necessary.

 

Open bare bottom ? go with 2# or 4# line. He is not going to get away.

 

Rod action to me, is very unimportant

 

The topic is about rod power, not action.

Medium-Heavy for me.

 

 

Tight lines,

Bob

Medium heavy for hollow body frogs, medium for everything else...

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Went to Rajeff  for a explanation. Thanks for the technical wakeup .  I use medium power & medium action in everything I buy. If available.

Thanks for the responses guys. I'm gonna try some mono on a 7'mh and see how I like that.

By the way, there's no way to practice walking the dog without water is there??

Medium heavy.

I'm not quite sure why I would use a different power rod for hollow body frogs compared to a soft plastic (Zoom) or any any other top water lure.  Given similar lure weights it's how the rod is going to load up and how much cover I have to pull a fish thru.

Medium heavy is great for topwaters that don't have treble hooks, unless the MH is a moderate action. Topwaters with trebles like spooks and popper I treat just like a jerkbait, I use a shorter rod with medium power and fast action, the short length and fast action allow me precise control over the bait and the medium power offers just enough forgiveness or flex to allow me to fight the fish on small treble hooks without pulling them out. I do like a medium heavy with a moderate fast action for a super spook but regular Zara Spooks and super spook Jr.s get used with a medium power, fast action rod.

Thanks for the responses guys. I'm gonna try some mono on a 7'mh and see how I like that.

By the way, there's no way to practice walking the dog without water is there??

Not that i know of, it is a feel and timing thing that just takes practice on the water.

I Get carried away on learning something new. So I got the rythem down correct for me in open water. Then changed the trebles to weedless. More open water weedless practice.  Then into pockets of reeds.  The bass & pike were hungry .  I used the 60# Ande mono.  

 

Had to lift the 9.9 hp & row or pole in to retrieve a lure with a hook stuck into a stem the size of my pinky.  Well worth the retrival efforts.  

 

Note.

 

The LM living at each reed pocket would bite anytime.