Hi all

For my birthday got Shimano Caius Reel (6.3-1) and No. 8 *** 6'6" MH. Rod snapped the other day after I stupidly went frogging with it. My budget allows me to get a new reel in addition to a replacement rod. Just ordered *** by *** 7'1" MH and Abu Pro Max low profile reel (7.1-1).

Two questions

Should I quit frogging/heavy cover fishing until I can buy a bigger rod?

I want to have one reel with 20lb fluoro for all around open water fishing (cranks, spooks, light t-rigs, etc.), and one with braid for any heavy stuff I encounter. Which should be which reel?

 

Thanks!

JG

 

Asterisks are for a rod that sound slike lefy by a brand called 7+6 fishing

And first asterisks is for a power outage

 

You can frog with a MH rod no problem, your old rod probably broke because of mishandling, such as highsticking, banging it around, etc. It could just be a defective rod as well. As far as frogs are concerned, there are frogs with very thick hooks (such as livetarget frogs), and ones with thinner hooks (such as booyah padcrasher). Use one with thinner hook