If you can find one cheap the old Dorado TN80 is surprisingly a really nice rod. I have had one of my old mans sitting downstairs for ages and had never used it until I went down south chasing salmon and this was the longest one in the garage. Casts well, you can run it up to PE5 for up north for light GT fishing and northen blues and a stella 8000 would go perfectly on it. I was running a saltiga 4500H which is the same size and runnning good PE3 casts a mile. Stella 8000 is probably a bit overkill for 30lb so make sure you put some really good stuff on it otherwise go 50lb tuffline or similar.
sammy85
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Date Joined: 31/08/10
What will you be chasing and
What will you be chasing and running what line?
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bluemonkey
Posts: 12
Date Joined: 09/05/11
salmon, tuna, bonito etc
salmon, tuna, bonito etc 30lb braid, haven't brought the braid though yet
Simon C
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Date Joined: 01/05/07
saltiga allrounder
If you can find one cheap the old Dorado TN80 is surprisingly a really nice rod. I have had one of my old mans sitting downstairs for ages and had never used it until I went down south chasing salmon and this was the longest one in the garage. Casts well, you can run it up to PE5 for up north for light GT fishing and northen blues and a stella 8000 would go perfectly on it. I was running a saltiga 4500H which is the same size and runnning good PE3 casts a mile. Stella 8000 is probably a bit overkill for 30lb so make sure you put some really good stuff on it otherwise go 50lb tuffline or similar.
dkonig82
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Date Joined: 06/07/10
MC works Dazzler 802 would be
MC works Dazzler 802 would be nice if you can find one.
I'm using a Yamaga blue sniper 77/3 which is great, but better suited to a 5000SW though.
Guess you could look at a 75/4 or something?
When asked by a non-fisherman 'how many fishing rods do you really need?' the correct answer is either:
n+1 (where n is the number of fishing rods you currently own); or
n-1 (where n is the number of fishing rods which would cause your significant other to dump you.
bluemonkey
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Date Joined: 09/05/11
Awesome cheers for that,
Awesome cheers for that, really appreciate it. And would 50lb be better suited to the 8000 ?
Bodie
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big reel with a lot of drag
big reel with a lot of drag for only 30LB mate.
Im running a Stella 4k with 30LB, plenty of balls in that