I bought my queen a spin caster. It was at least a gold cast and I painted the porch. That is worth 8 hours at the skatepark and two fishing trips. Pretty sure I’m buying a very expensive mic preamp though. It all works out. 

11 hours ago, Delaware Valley Tackle said:

7 hours ago, S Hovanec said:

I just bought her a Stradic 2500SHG-L so I could get the MgFB back that was on the SCV.

My wife and I have a similar understanding: what’s mine is hers and what’s hers is hers. 

My wife is a great gal. She has no interest in being on the river or lake at 5:00am. No desire to get up for that time of day to fish. It would be nice but I’m not gonna push it. But she been salmon fishing on Lake Ontario and some salt water outings with me. Wish my wife would ask for a Stradic. 

On 9/7/2019 at 5:26 PM, Spankey said:

No problem I got bit by the St. Croix bug years ago. For next season I’m gonna look at the 6’6” MLF & 6’3” MLXF. Make a good comparison between them. Breaking down and look at the New Stradic. I’ll Start a slush fund soon for them. 

 

I’m not a huge fan of the Mojo or Bass X either. I like the Premiere Series. I fish a few ML in that series. Just stepping it up some. My Medium Avids do not fish real heavy. I really don’t fish plastics that are very heavy. Pretty much a finesse guy. The SC X-fast Rods I fish I love. I have a MXF 5’9” that I fish nothing but Grubs, tubes and small creatures in close spots, under overhangs and some docks. That is one heck of a rod. 

I've been curious about how much backbone that 5"9" Avid rod has. I dock skip with a 5'6" Premier and I like it but wish it had a little longer rear handle. The Premier has heavier line/lure ratings. 

I have the blue SCIV version of the 5'9" and it's a little beast stick. Really stout backbone for close quarters battles but still a light enough tip to throw the baits well.

11 hours ago, zell_pop1 said:

I've been curious about how much backbone that 5"9" Avid rod has. I dock skip with a 5'6" Premier and I like it but wish it had a little longer rear handle. The Premier has heavier line/lure ratings. 

I’m a river rat for the most part. The smallies I fish for, I’m sure do not hail in comparison to the greenies most of you guys fish for. I have gotten some respectable nice smallies skipping dock and overhangs with that rod. 90% of it use is with Grubs and tubes along with 4” lizards. When I saw and touched this Avid I knew I wanted it. And I knew exactly how I was gonna use it. Most guys on here at least don’t even talk about or even want a rod that short today. I’ve had mine for quite some time. I paired mine with a BPS Pro Qualifier 6.2 ratio reel.  Back when I got it I was skeptical about any BPS Reel but the whole combo has worked out well.