ok so i use to have this southbend about 6 years ago or so and it was a great rod I was wondering if anyone uses or used southbend rods anymore and if so are they anygood still or have they went down hill like almost every other manufacture out there???
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well ive decided to look at a few other rods today when i go to pocatello I may just come home another rod richer!!! maby 2 or 3 rods we will see sometimes when i go fish shoping i go over bored!!!
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Where do you go in Pocatello now that Sportsman's is gone?
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temple fork g loomis rods are a must have for spin fishermen. u wont regret it.
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For light to medium spinning I use vintage Shakespeare Wonderods, 5 1/2 to 6 1/2 foot with either Mitchell 308's or Zebco - Cardinal sizes 3 or 4. 1960's through around 1980 manufacture. I have "a few". Spendy for mint examples on ebay but nothing like them then or now... a fiberglass rod has to be experienced to know what playing a nice fish is all about... totally different than composites.
Just one eld fahrt's opinion.
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i go to snakeriver outdoors its in the old craft and frames building!!!! and then there is dicks now where the sportsman ware house was!!!my next trip out when i feel like dropping some dough i found the rod i want it is a abu garcia vengeance it is only 50 bucks at the snakeriver outdoors i really like the abue garcia veritas but i dont want to drop 100 bucks on a rod right now!!!
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find the rod action you like with the vendetta and then go to amazon and you can buy them for 50 bucks just got a 6'9" ML vendetta and a 7' M vendetta each for 50 counting shipping. the vengence is 30 on amazon.
guide inserts are very cheap on the vengence i have 4 of them for when friends need a rod. the vendetta is an amazing rod. i have 6 for bass fishing got them all off amazon between 45 and 60 shipped.
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just checked amazon looks like they went up a little they are about 60 for vendetta and 30-40 for the vengence..
i shoulda checked before posting. glad i got mine when i did.
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[quote jabink89]just checked amazon looks like they went up a little they are about 60 for vendetta and 30-40 for the vengence..
i shoulda checked before posting. glad i got mine when i did.[/quote]
I played around with a vendetta the other day at sportsman's and was a super nice rod kinda made my ugly stik feel like a broom handle ha ha
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I love my vengeance but the vendetta is very nice as well. Both are better than my old ugly stiks.
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