I know st croix powers are not accurate, but is the action of the rod pretty accurate?

St Croix has been making & selling rods for going on 74 years.

Hope they get it right someday.

A-Jay

There’s no standard besides your own perception of what a ‘fast’ should feel like. So you’d have to pick one up yourself and fish it to decide if the action is true. Anything anyone else tells you would be biased to that person’s experience

I find them to be more moderate, often with a slightly stiffer backbone than most other rod makers. That’s actually what I like about them, it works for me. 
 

I do have one rod though that calls itself a MH XF and is very noodly that to my tastes takes it too far without enough backbone behind it. 

So what is the gold standard for what a rod power is "suppose", to feel like? If I've used St. Croix my entire life, another rod is going to feel different to me, so whose rating isn't right?

 

I feel like their ratings are more accurate than other rods I've used. Most others I've used feel like their ratings are higher than they should be. 

9 hours ago, Bluebasser86 said:

I feel like their ratings are more accurate than other rods I've used. Most others I've used feel like their ratings are higher than they should be. 

Yep, St Croix does run a little more powerful than some other brands but I put that on other brands being underpowered more than St Croix being "not accurate." St Croix is always consistent and you know exactly what you're going to get, in my experience.

On 7/3/2022 at 8:22 PM, A-Jay said:

St Croix has been making & selling rods for going on 74 years.

Hope they get it right someday.

A-Jay

A moderator needs to look into this. I believe @Deleted account may have hacked A-Jay. ?