Thread: Dream rod

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[quote author=john g link=topic=729.msg6742#msg6742 date=1331486288]
Ya know the rod that has been on TV with the trigger that shoots your lure out?something along those lines that could launch a cig a couple hundred feet with a hard wind in your face.
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there is a old thread from beach fisherman using a real small tank with compressed air to shoot there bait out past the second sand bar......I saved it somewhere.....the small compressor ran off 12volt lawn mower battery .....kinda like a potato launcher
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I have seen Youtube video of something very much like a potato gun as a bait launcher -- you freeze the rigging into a can of ice, to act as the seal (like the wad on a shotgun shell).

If you look for pictures from the Pacific northwest, they fire large (16 oz plus) sinkers into the Columbia river for sturgeon from a giant slingshot. The most interesting part to me is that to maximize distance the line from the reel is wrapped around a large tapered bucket or flower pot, like the world's largest distance spinning reel spool (plus it protects the guides from the high speed line-slap of death) and then connected to the actual rigging in the launcher. The last of the line clears the bucket and you're back on the reel.

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Given that my background is more surf-fishing than pier fishing, my answer for a 9' rod to throw 2-3 oz is a Lamiglas Ron Arra XSRA 1084 (normally 9', but mine is 8'10" due to a bad combination of the previous owner and gravity). Like many of my rods, it was acquired at a substantial discount because it was broken and I re-tipped it. I also have a 9' conventional tri-flex blank that throws even better but to get the capacity I'd need to use braid on a conventional and I don't think that would be popular.

The drawback in my limited pier use of surf rods is that the handle is too long, being designed for a different casting style. The rods would also be suspect for controlling a green fish around the pilings.

Cool yall i just like to start up links to bring a lil life to the form and here what people like i used a old roddy at pcola one day a friend let me use i liked it also :headbang: I got a old i think 9ft 2 pice rod that my grandpaw used back in the 50's and 60's i'll get it and post some pics and see what yall might think it is...its kinda a light blue there is also a old old calcutta out there somewhere in the shed like to find it

[quote author=midwestexile link=topic=729.msg6790#msg6790 date=1331519955]
[quote author=ironman172 link=topic=729.msg6772#msg6772 date=1331505796]
[quote author=john g link=topic=729.msg6742#msg6742 date=1331486288]
Ya know the rod that has been on TV with the trigger that shoots your lure out?something along those lines that could launch a cig a couple hundred feet with a hard wind in your face.
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there is a old thread from beach fisherman using a real small tank with compressed air to shoot there bait out past the second sand bar......I saved it somewhere.....the small compressor ran off 12volt lawn mower battery .....kinda like a potato launcher
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I have seen Youtube video of something very much like a potato gun as a bait launcher -- you freeze the rigging into a can of ice, to act as the seal (like the wad on a shotgun shell).

If you look for pictures from the Pacific northwest, they fire large (16 oz plus) sinkers into the Columbia river for sturgeon from a giant slingshot. The most interesting part to me is that to maximize distance the line from the reel is wrapped around a large tapered bucket or flower pot, like the world's largest distance spinning reel spool (plus it protects the guides from the high speed line-slap of death) and then connected to the actual rigging in the launcher. The last of the line clears the bucket and you're back on the reel.

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I watched that before. You can buy the rig online. But at around $300, screw that. I would build a PVC potato gun powered by propane for almost 10x less and it would probably shoot just as far.

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OK, this isn’t a rod, but it will definitely get your bait, lure and anything else you may want; way the heck out there!
Plus it doubles as a pier/beach cart.
Please don’t steal my design; it is not yet patented.

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Oh, that's just too damn funny Fin.
I can visualize some tourist kid climbing up on that and.... SPROING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

IF I had the money (and I don't ;-) I would buy JohnG's "LuvBugRod"
That thing was uglier than anything in the reject bin @ Walmart, but it caught fish!

David, I don't think it was the Rod oke1:

I would love to have that rod back myself.A fiddler crab,shrimp,condom lable,Ole'Forester lable,bull minnow,love bugs,a roach,a bull minnow and several other things epoxed into the most ugly rod ever built.In BIG letters that filled the entire area between the reel seat and butt cap in bold gold leaf script read something like(it took three lines and the entire circumance of the blank)"custom built by John Giannini.It's most ugly rod on this pier but it will out fish all the other piece of S&#$ rods out here unless I built it"

Now that takes skill to epoxy a bull minnow and I bet that condom gave you hell with fish eyes as well.

Sorry Pest,I left out label.