Spinning Rod For Lakers.

[Sparkle]

Happy Easter guys. Do you think the Fenwick HMG Spinning Rod HMG70MH-FS 7'0" Ft Medium Heavy Fast, 3/8 - 1oz lure weight, 10 - 17lb line weight in one piece would be good for jigging Lakers? I Usually use tube jigs ranging anywhere from 1/2 oz to 2 oz. All my other swim baits are 3/4 oz to 1 oz. I would be teaming the rod up with a Shimano 4000 Sahara or Nasci. Sorry I know this isn't anything to do with ice fishing.

[slipperybob]

Just depends on you.  I don't use MH rods, myself personally.  I usually go from M straight up to H.  It also just depends on how familiar one is with certain mfg rods types.  I had bought years ago 2 Cabelas XML 7' H spinning rods, they were 2 pieces as since I only had a little car back then.  Since then I've use those two rods for anything from catfish to pike fishing.  The rods were rated 1/2 oz to 1 1/2 oz.  So that covers majority of my lure weights.  Yes I've use the rods for panfishing before and it suits me just fine too.

I've matched reels from a Stradic 2500/3000 and 4000 reels on them.

I have like a St. Croix Salmon rod, MH power one in 8'6" and one in 9'6" that I use for river wading at times.

I did just grabbed to St. Croix LE 6'8" MH bait casting rods just over Christmas.  So haven't used them and it's actually my first MH rods for bait casting.

[Icefishingute]

I have a fenwick hmg mh 5’6”, paired with a shimano Calcutta 200.  I truly loved this rod combo. I fished with a guide that used shorter rods. The sensitivity and reaction time with a shorter rod was incredible. I ended up having him build me a couple and that’s all I use now. 42” long, mh 6’ rod cut down to 42”. So it’s pretty much a heavy. I am a big believer in a short rod for jigging plastics for Macs. Try it sometime before you purchase a 7 footer.