Hi everyone!

 

I want to try bass fishing techniques (jigs, worms, etc) targeting for perch on my local waters . I've got a chronarch ci4+ baitcast reel and a medium power rod (1/4 - 1 oz.) more suited for jerkbaiting with 100-110 sized wobblers, which is, in my opinion, overpowered for perch. There are two good options i found: one is zodias 168L-BFS/2 (4 - 12 gr.) and zodias 1610-ML/2 (5 - 15 gr.). Planning to use weights from 1/8 up to 3/8 oz. Never tried to fish with soft plastics before. Perch baits coming from 2" to 3" inches long, some times bigger, some times smaller - crawfishes and other creature baits, so they have their own weght + weight i menthioned before. Here is a question: do i need bfs rod for this kind of application or i can choose the medium light and put my chronarch reel on? Because if bfs is only the way, i need one more reel... 

 

ps: sorry for my bad english.

 

 

12 hours ago, BaitFinesse said:

As long as their is some plastic on an 1/8 oz jighead then the Zodias 610 BFS ML will cast it.  It doesn't do all that well with 1/8 oz total weight.  The Zodias ML is only rated down to 3/16 oz.  

Thank you! So ML will be ok... And what about chronarch cI4+? Is it capable of casting this weights (1/8 oz + 2-3" plastics)?

Go for the BFS, imo the standard Zodias (have spinning and baitcasting version) fishes more heavier.

 

Regarding the Chronarch CI4+ casting 1/8 oz plus 2-3" plastics, I think it should be ok as long as the rod can load it.  I haven't tried that with my Chronarch Ci4+ though.