I’m trying to figure out if I need a rod in the 7‘6” or a 7‘11” rod for throwing soft swim baits in the 1 ounce to 3 ounce range? For those who fish soft swim baits that are of this weight, give me your opinion. Plus it could be me but throwing glide baits, would work with this rod as well, or not. Anyway again your input is appreciated. 

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On 12/1/2023 at 9:53 PM, Justbass11 said:

I’m trying to figure out if I need a rod in the 7‘6” or a 7‘11” rod for throwing soft swim baits in the 1 ounce to 3 ounce range? For those who fish soft swim baits that are of this weight, give me your opinion. Plus it could be me but throwing glide baits, would work with this rod as well, or not. Anyway again your input is appreciated. 

 

I bought a used MB Onager couple years ago, I think it's 7'10.  Really love it and recommend it for both single and treble hook applications.  I also love the 7'6 Expride XH, but 3oz feels just past what I'm comfortable with and only throw single hook.  In my world, I tend to split uses @ 2.5oz.

 

scott

I have three rods that could be used for this purpose:

• 7'11"
• 8'
• 8'6"

I wouldn't want to throw with less than the 7'11" for the relatively open waters I fish in, but your environment might be different.

 

The 8'6" will sling a 1.5 oz soft swimbait a country mile and is appropriate for fishing a single hook soft swimbait IMHO. It's too . . . . 'studly' for treble hook baits unless they were very big and sturdy trebles. What's odd to me is that the 8' rod I have is a Dobyns 806 that's rated for 2-8 oz. It's a wimp compared to the 8'6" SB rod I have (unrated for lure weight for some reason) that I wouldn't throw more than 5 oz with. The Dobyns 806 is good for about 3 oz IMHO and not much more; a good all-rounder if I want to stay in it's wheelhouse.

 

There you go; clear as mud, although I will say that for swimbaits, I would prefer to stay in the 8' range plus or minus just a little. For me, I wouldn't want a 7'6" swimbait rod. YMMV.