What do you guys flip or pitch with? 
 

I'm using a 7’6” Loomis GLX it’s the heavy F&P model and it’s a beast. I can fish weed/pad infested water anywhere in this country with it. I believe I could pull up a 57 Chevy with her 😂

 

What you guys use? 
 

For lighter work I use a Talon rod XMW carbon rod, MH with fast action. It sees more use than the GLX. The Talon rod is built on a Patriot blank by Gary Loomis son Brad, right here in America. I’m very happy with the Talon rods and the GLX , just different tools for the job..

Ark Invoker 7'11" XH. It'll throw two pounders over the boat with ease. 😂

Halo 7ft 8 MH

9 minutes ago, rangerjockey said:

Halo 7ft 8 MH

Which model you using? 

3 hours ago, T-Billy said:

Ark Invoker 7'11" XH. It'll throw two pounders over the boat with ease. 😂

I used to use a 7’11” St. Croix Avid flipping stick, then a Legend.. I liked the Avid better. Except 5 years after I bought it, the guide epoxy yellowed and began to crack. All guides. It was a sweet stick though, 7’11” was a bit tough for me to handle, since then I’ve always used a 7’6” it just works better for me. 

St Croix GXR H/F

Dobyns Kaden Mag Heavy/ F

Quantum Smoke H/XF

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mike

Dobyns Fury 765-Flip for heavy cover

St Croix Mojo 7'3" MH/XF for moderate to light cover

Usually a 7'6" HF Tatula. It's my all around heavy cover rod. 

 

I've used my Dobyns 807 Champion in a pinch. No lack of hook setting power with that thing lol. 

2 hours ago, Mike L said:

St Croix GXR H/F

Dobyns Kaden Mag Heavy/ F

Quantum Smoke H/XF

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mike

Those Quantum smokes were good rods, I had one and it was solid. 

23 minutes ago, MassYak85 said:

Usually a 7'6" HF Tatula. It's my all around heavy cover rod. 

 

I've used my Dobyns 807 Champion in a pinch. No lack of hook setting power with that thing lol. 

I have a 7’3” Zillion it’s a MH/R bend. Amazing caster and very good feel to the Daiwa rods.. solid choice. 

12 minutes ago, F14A-B said:

Those Quantum smokes were good rods, I had one and it was solid. 

I have a 7’3” Zillion it’s a MH/R bend. Amazing caster and very good feel to the Daiwa rods.. solid choice. 

My favorite rod of all time is the OG tatula 7'2" MHR (not for flipping just in general). Super versatile and falls in that sweet spot of juuuust a little bit slower than a fast action to load up nicely. 

Falcon cara Amistad for most things. I don't have heavy punching or crazy cover, so 20 lb big game on an amistad will be good for an ounce of weight plus a plastic in anything I am fishing.

TomCat I still have 5 flipping and pitching rods. I no longer use 4 of them and had to reduce size or length due to my boat being too low to the water to use the 7'6" rods, and getting older now, and those large rods are getting harder to handle. So now I have moved down to a 6'11" rod I can handle better. Don't necessarily like it as much, but it does what I need it to.

 

1)Daiwa TD-V76THRB  (I have two of these rods mint condition)

2)Fenwick HMXT-76H-T

3)No.8 BlackOut BOC-76MH XF

3)Dobyns DC-734C-SH (Shortened to 6'11")

 

I confess that my flipping and pitching rod choice early on 40 years ago was directly influenced by and designed by Denny Brauer as shown in his 1986 awesome video on Flipping & Pitching:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJhbnvjIHSU

 

So I purchased back then two of his Team Daiwa rods he designed for Daiwa. Today these rods are no longer available and finding one is extremely rare. I plan on passing mine down to my sons one day. A family heirloom! I have had offers years ago, and one guy offered me $300 for one of them and I turned him down. Today I would not take double that for one. Just too rare these days.

 

These are historical legacy rods that set the standard still used to this day. Could be museum display rods if we had a fishing rod hall of fame, these would be in it. The following Fenwick rod borrowed from Denny Brauer's legacy as well.

 

The Fenwick is a copy cat exact replica knock off of the Daiwa Denny Brauer designed rods. A darn good flipping and pitching rod though.

 

Before I reduced rod length I tried downsizing to a lighter rod but not as heavy of action. And that is where the No.8 BlackOut rod came into play. Great rod for the price. I got it cheap in a pawn shop and turned it into a spiral wrapped F&P rod. Love the rod. Just too long for me these days. But due to how lightweight it is, about half the weight of a Team Daiwa rod above, it was much easier for me to use with less fatigue.

 

The Dobyns rod was a shift for me. I had been looking for a shorter F&P rod and a customer brought this one into the shop years ago to see if it could be repaired after he broke 4 inches off the tip. No one at the shop wanted to attempt any kind of repair of the rod. Adding 4 inches back onto it does not make it the same rod it was before and was a liability really. If it failed you know he would be back demanding it be fixed again for free so the shop just passed on it.

 

Since he wanted that particular rod, he decided to just go buy himself a new one, and he left this one at the shop. It was going to be thrown away so I grabbed it, stripped it down and turned it into a spiral wrapped rod and by default it has become my current F&P rod. Kind of heavy but a much easier length to maneuver for me.

 

I am working on another rod right now that could also become my newest favorite F&P rod. It is an amazing blank the likes of which I have never seen before. Its a SixGill "Creature" series CREC700MH fast action rod. I have been quite surprised by how good this rod really is. Amazing does not begin to describe it.

 

An online search says "1 Piece Blended Japanese Toray Carbon, Fuji Guides, Split Cork Grip Handle, Fast Action"

 

Its lightweight, well built, and balanced and extremely crisp & responsive rod of amazing quality. My newest love!

 

Looking through this thread are some great choices I would not mind adding to my rod collection. The Loomis, St. Croix, and any 'made in USA' only Falcon rods are at top of my list as well.

43 minutes ago, MassYak85 said:

My favorite rod of all time is the OG tatula 7'2" MHR (not for flipping just in general). Super versatile and falls in that sweet spot of juuuust a little bit slower than a fast action to load up nicely. 

Yes totally agree with that. Daiwa has been doing a lot of good with both rods and reels. I like my American made blanks but the Zillion rod caught my attention for sure. I bought it from another board user here. It was same as new and I’ve used it in Destin, Fl. And in Alabama. Great for most all inshore fish.. as well as LMB. 

32 minutes ago, FloridaFishinFool said:

TomCat I still have 5 flipping and pitching rods. I no longer use 4 of them and had to reduce size or length due to my boat being too low to the water to use the 7'6" rods, and getting older now, and those large rods are getting harder to handle. So now I have moved down to a 6'11" rod I can handle better. Don't necessarily like it as much, but it does what I need it to.

 

1)Daiwa TD-V76THRB  (I have two of these rods mint condition)

2)Fenwick HMXT-76H-T

3)No.8 BlackOut BOC-76MH XF

3)Dobyns DC-734C-SH (Shortened to 6'11")

 

I confess that my flipping and pitching rod choice early on 40 years ago was directly influenced by and designed by Denny Brauer as shown in his 1986 awesome video on Flipping & Pitching:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJhbnvjIHSU

 

So I purchased back then two of his Team Daiwa rods he designed for Daiwa. Today these rods are no longer available and finding one is extremely rare. I plan on passing mine down to my sons one day. A family heirloom! I have had offers years ago, and one guy offered me $300 for one of them and I turned him down. Today I would not take double that for one. Just too rare these days.

 

These are historical legacy rods that set the standard still used to this day. Could be museum display rods if we had a fishing rod hall of fame, these would be in it. The following Fenwick rod borrowed from Denny Brauer's legacy as well.

 

The Fenwick is a copy cat exact replica knock off of the Daiwa Denny Brauer designed rods. A darn good flipping and pitching rod though.

 

Before I reduced rod length I tried downsizing to a lighter rod but not as heavy of action. And that is where the No.8 BlackOut rod came into play. Great rod for the price. I got it cheap in a pawn shop and turned it into a spiral wrapped F&P rod. Love the rod. Just too long for me these days. But due to how lightweight it is, about half the weight of a Team Daiwa rod above, it was much easier for me to use with less fatigue.

 

The Dobyns rod was a shift for me. I had been looking for a shorter F&P rod and a customer brought this one into the shop years ago to see if it could be repaired after he broke 4 inches off the tip. No one at the shop wanted to attempt any kind of repair of the rod. Adding 4 inches back onto it does not make it the same rod it was before and was a liability really. If it failed you know he would be back demanding it be fixed again for free so the shop just passed on it.

 

Since he wanted that particular rod, he decided to just go buy himself a new one, and he left this one at the shop. It was going to be thrown away so I grabbed it, stripped it down and turned it into a spiral wrapped rod and by default it has become my current F&P rod. Kind of heavy but a much easier length to maneuver for me.

 

I am working on another rod right now that could also become my newest favorite F&P rod. It is an amazing blank the likes of which I have never seen before. Its a SixGill "Creature" series CREC700MH fast action rod. I have been quite surprised by how good this rod really is. Amazing does not begin to describe it.

 

An online search says "1 Piece Blended Japanese Toray Carbon, Fuji Guides, Split Cork Grip Handle, Fast Action"

 

Looking through this thread are some great choices I would not mind adding to my rod collection. The Loomis, St. Croix, and any 'made in USA' only Falcon rods are at top of my list as well.

Were those the green rods? If so, I had a Jay Yelas spinning rod, a solid tip 6’6”. I gave it to my son who promptly broke it.. go figure. 

27 minutes ago, F14A-B said:

Were those the green rods? If so, I had a Jay Yelas spinning rod, a solid tip 6’6”. I gave it to my son who promptly broke it.. go figure. 

 

Green rods? Not sure what you are saying here. A little more info please.

4 hours ago, F14A-B said:

Which model you using? 

I used to use a 7’11” St. Croix Avid flipping stick, then a Legend.. I liked the Avid better. Except 5 years after I bought it, the guide epoxy yellowed and began to crack. All guides. It was a sweet stick though, 7’11” was a bit tough for me to handle, since then I’ve always used a 7’6” it just works better for me. 

I’m using the HFX. I also use for the chopo/plopper

12 minutes ago, FloridaFishinFool said:

 

Green rods? Not sure what you are saying here. A little more info please.

Color, they were a green color, late 90’s early 2000. What else would green mean? 😆🤣😁

Daiwa worked with Denny, Jay and Guido and others. I used Guidos take on a tube rod. 7’ heavy/fast with almost no tip. I loved that rod, it was an older powermesh model. You could have flipped with that thing. Guido always used a 4000 sized reel on his spinning rods. Old dude was a hammer back in the day. 

Nrx 895c..7'5 mag heavy with bantam xg and 50lb sunline fx2 braid... 

2 hours ago, F14A-B said:

Yes totally agree with that. Daiwa has been doing a lot of good with both rods and reels. I like my American made blanks but the Zillion rod caught my attention for sure. I bought it from another board user here. It was same as new and I’ve used it in Destin, Fl. And in Alabama. Great for most all inshore fish.. as well as LMB. 

Were those the green rods? If so, I had a Jay Yelas spinning rod, a solid tip 6’6”. I gave it to my son who promptly broke it.. go figure. 

Daiwa's green rod (early 2000's) was the TD-S.

 

Sorta hard to flip from a yak so I ain't got one.   

3 hours ago, KP Duty said:

Daiwa's green rod (early 2000's) was the TD-S.

 

 

I did have one of those! I wish I still had it.

 

I love those types of grips. I custom shape my own as well. Bass Pro had the famous "Power Hump" grips.

 

 

I did a modified power hump on a mid 1980's Team Daiwa rod. And as I was constructing it I had to battle with myself over should I install it straight up and down vertically same as all manufacturers do? Or, should I turn it so it fits the hand more comfortably angled off center. I settled on comfort and off center and LOVE it!

 

Not trying to hijack the thread or anything, just continuing on with a comment to another comment.

 

I've been collecting the mid 1980's Team Daiwa rods for decades now. And years ago I came across a rod like no other. It is like a magic wand rod. Super light. Super responsive. Just an incredible blank.

 

The only reason this rod survived to today is because of one thing. The reel seat came loose and reel spun around the rod. So someone put this rod away and never used it. And it is because of that decades of storage that this rod made it to 2025.

 

I just did an online search for this rod's model number and google and AI both searched the entire world for me and found nothing. There are no second rods like this one to be found out there, except maybe still hidden away somewhere unknown. But it is because of the weakness or lightweight thinness of this rod as to why all of them are now gone. Probably broken, worn out, and destroyed. But not this one! I have the one surviving rod, and I am glad to have it.

 

To repair the reel seat the old cork handle had to come off so I could reseat the reel seat onto the rod securely. So when I reconstructed the cork grip I purchased some of the best quality cork to be found and custom shaped a similar grip to what is shown above on stock rods.

 

The one thing I did different was slightly turn the new power hump grip slightly off center about 3 degrees so now it fits my hand perfectly for casting. This is a dream rod. And now one of a kind.

 

 

My custom power hump styled grip is installed upside down to how Bass Pro did theirs with most of their hump to the topside. Mine is mostly to the bottom and 3 degrees offset to the left side. Its more comfortable this way.

 

I spent some time handling the rod with grip in different positions and just settled on what was most comfortable. Upside down, backwards, and off center.

 

AI says:

 

"A TD-v I701MLFB" did not produce any direct results for a specific rod model. This could be because the model name is incorrectly typed, is an obscure or discontinued Japanese domestic market (JDM) model, or is part of a series where the full model number is less commonly referenced. However, the model number can be broken down to understand the rod's specifications based on Daiwa's naming conventions for its Team Daiwa (TD) series of rods."

 

Kind of cool to have a number of rods AI and google basically says "Does not exist."

 

Back to topic, the Denny Brauer F&P rods comes from this same series and look identical to it. I now have about a dozen of this series of rods. Great rods. Well made. I do have another H in the collection I could use for a F&P rod, just have never done so when I have others to choose from that are at the head of the line.

 

I am using one now for a frogging rod. Hey TomCat there is an idea for your next thread! Froggin' rods!

I have a few but its depends on what I'm flipping. 

 

Loomis

NRX+ 802C - 1/4oz jigs

NRX+ 853C - 3/8oz jigs

NRX+ 894C - 1/2oz jigs and beavers 1/2oz weight 

NRX+ 895C - 3/4oz stuff and up

GLX 803C - dock skipping/pitching 

NRX+ 904C - I use this mainly for football jigs but it works great as a flipping rod

 

Megabass 

 

Valkyrie 7'4'' H+ - Kind of a do all heavy rod. Has a lot of backbone for thick cover.

P5 Daemos - Great, accurate casting rod. Its softer than everything else listed and lends itself more to swimjigs but works great flipping 3/8oz jigs on windy days and in weird places where pinpoint casts are needed

 

 

3 hours ago, KP Duty said:

Daiwa's green rod (early 2000's) was the TD-S.

 

That’s it! 

Dobyn’s champion extreme 745.

Kistler Helium 7'3" hmh (4.5 power). Heavy backbone/mh tip, 3.6 ounces, a pitching and skipping machine.

During certain parts of the year I might have four or five on the deck.

 

Edge First Strike MBR 786

Dobyns Xtreme 795

Dobyns Xtreme 746

Edge Silver Widow 736

Dobyns Xtasy 755

Alpha Angler Zilla 2.0

Bought a Fenwick Flippin Stik back in the 1970's.  Never found anything better.

Now that I fish out of a small boat and can't stand up I use a 10 ft, 2 piece rod to "dip" rather than "flip".  It is a Todd Huckabee, Meat Dragger rod with a reel that has a flippin switch and 40# braid.  Pretty clumsy but I make it work.

Yesterday a big bass rolled over my frog, I swung a jig into the blow hole and THUMP!