Hey guys Im looking to add a new finesse rod setup to the arsenal. I have a upcoming tournament on a super clear water lake with highly pressured fish and want to add another spinning setup to the mix so I can have a few different things rigged up. I already have a lews HM85 speed stick lite 7ft Mxf (the shakey head one) and was thinking about getting another one. I really like it and think it would be more useful than adding the lews HM85 speed stick lite drop shot rod which is a 6'10"MLxf rod. I feel like with the medium light pretty much all you can do is drop shot, but with the medium xtra fast I feel like I can do alot more like shakey head, wacky rig, and dropshot. Just wondering what everyones thoughts were on this. I will be pairing this with some sort of 2500 size reel. Thanks for the info guys. 

I don't know Lews rods, but I do use a ML for drop shot

and even wacky, split shotting, mojo rigs, small spinnerbaits

and so forth.

 

My St. Croix in ML is a bit stiffer, but my BPS MicroLite is much

less stiff. I can't speak to Lews, so don't know if they're a bit

stronger than rated.

You can drop shot with a wide variety of rods because you don't add much of any action to a drop shot other than lightly shaking the slack line. Set your reel drag at 1/3 rd the leader # test so the light wire hook doesn't pull out near the boat. I have 3 identical spinning outfits for all my finesse spinning use; slip/split shot, drop shot, dart jigs, nail weight rigs, flick shaky type jig worm rigs, light weight under spins, etc., 2 with FC line, 1 with mono.

Tom