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Having trouble finding dipsy rods under 8 ft. It looks like the cal 7 ft.1100 ugly stick has become extinct. I hope that you good folks on the best fishing forum can guide me towards a place that might have some or a decent dipsy rod under 8ft. When fishing alone the 9 to 10 footers are just not enjoyable when netting.
What size Dipseys are you running and at what setting? With or without rings? What purpose, Walleye or salmon?
I will be fishing mostly in central basin out of wanut or northeast pa. Using #1 or #3 depending on where the fish are. I would like to run inline boards as well when the spirit moves me. Prime target is walleye and occasionally steelhead. probably running 2or 3 rods per side depending how many of us there are. Plan on getting out to western basin once or twice a year as well.
There are a few shorter rods our there for your application. Some are made for steel line with a roller on the end. Some of the old timers will even tell you about steel dipsey rods that existed. If ll else fails, you can always modify what you have by trimming them down and placing a tip on. Okuma and Shimano are a couple names that should have what you need.
Thanks mr.spoon
poor Richards on the west side will have what ur lookin 4. If they don't they will know where 2 get it!
Ordered cal 1102 which are the 2 piece version from ebay this winter. May want to check ebay
Gwpete, I would suggest depending on your what looking to spend shimano, diawa both make a 7' M and MH, although neither come with roller tips, both are solid rods, I believe the shimano is a TDR series, and diawas series include the wilderness7' and accudepth 7'6". Both rods are listed as downrigger rods
But your in luck JBI GREAT LAKES RODS make specifically a 7' 1 and 2 piece heavy dipsey rod. These rods can be hard to find sometimes should retail for around 35-40. Hope this helps let me know if ya need any help locating anything.
CAL1100 , CK your local walmarts Ive bought a few in the last week
http://www.fomsportfishing.com/index...d=67&Itemid=96
Some pretty great information in this tutorial.
Also netting Dipsy's by yourself can be very difficult, Shorter rods with shorter leaders may help but I would think at a price. Shorter rods will make it harder to read when you have a fish on.
I too find myself fishing solo from time to time and struggle with Dipsy's. I made an extension for my net so now its about 8 feet long. Good luck and I will be interested to hear your results.
you might want to check out the daiwa wilderness trolling rods at fishus.com. they have several selections from med action to med/heavy actions that will work great with divers. I just bought 2 of the 8'6" med/heavy for my lite bite slide divers. they are glass rods but for trolling with divers you don't need anything else. and I only paid 15.95 each with free economy shipping. they look great and seem to be just what I wanted. I use different length rods for my divers. I use a 7' rod in the back set on 1.5 and the 8'6" rod in the middle set on 3 and then a 9' rod in the front set on 4.5. this is on the lite bite slide divers. which would be about like setting a dipsy on 1.5 and 2.5 and 3.5.
I started out using the size 1 dipsy then switched to the walker deeper diver in size 107 then switched to the standard size lite bite slide diver. I like using the lite bite divers because they have a lite bite trigger you can set the lure tension on so it will trip with small fish. I use my lite bite without using the slide part of the diver. I tie my braid to the front of the diver then just tie about 9' of 20# flouro leader to a small split ring and lace it through the back going through the lite bite arm. I can set the front trip of the diver a little on the tight side so I don't get a lot of false releases. then set the lite bite arm loose enough that even white perch will trip the diver.
good luck and let us know what you do and how it works for you.
I want to thank you for the great feedback, it helped. I ordered 6 Shimano TDR's @ 8 ft
I figure that the MH will give me all the flexibility I need to cover about 99% of the fishing I will do. I have a few lighter rods for jigging and bottom bouncing. I will be taking the whole week off from 4/27 to 5/3 traveling to Huron to pick my new boat and then fishing my brains out.
Man, this was some long winter.