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Originally Posted by JerseyCoast
Tough topic to get a majority to agree on. You have 3 types of blackfish rods and fishermen.
1- Soft Tip - rest backbone
2- Fast Action, with progressive/moderate action half way up the rest of the rod
3- Medium, slow action
Most important, is the ability to fish some heavy weights. You want to be able to hold that sinker in place, under rough conditions. Too soft and you will bounce the sinker around, keeping the tog away from your bait.
Too soft and you will be taken into the hole almost every time. Me, well I like both a fast action and a medium action. I always bring 2 rods, with the fast action being the rod for lighter sinkers and my medium action rod being used for the heavy stuff.
You will get a ton of opinions here, and NONE of them will be wrong! Its all dependant upon the fisherman.  |
If your sinker is coming off the bottom you are fishing to tight a line. YOU don't hold your sinker on the bottom, the sinker holds itself on the bottom as long as you use enough weight according to the conditions. If you prefer to fish a tight line a soft tip is better than a stiff tip because it will give a little when the boat heaves. Boat goes up, rod tip goes down. Boat comes back down, rod tip goes up.
With all the underwater videos posted on here I have never seen a togs head poking out from some hole waiting for a crab to drift by, tog swim around the wreck or the structure. Tog don't live in holes. Getting a tog away from structure is done on the hookset and the first few turns of the reel with a properly set drag. Sure, we all have had tog get back down to wedge their head in a rock crevice, but that can be blamed on fisherman error, a weak hookset or where the tog is when he got hooked in relation to the structure on the bottom. If you swing like every tog is going to be a double digit most of them will never get back to the structure.
