The one area that seems to continually get better in fishing tackle is rod design. Things like EVA foam, titanium guides, micro guides and more continue to raise the bar in terms of what can go into a rod to make it lighter which ultimately is done to make it more sensitive. And testing rods also happens to be one of our favorite activities at Wired2Fish. We test them on and off the water and even break a few in the process. But if we write about it, you can be assured we’ve used it a lot on the water first.
They are balanced nicely, and with the lightweight we thought it appropriate to test them with an Abu Garcia Revo MGX. For our first tests, we spooled up with Gamma 16-pound Edge Fluorocarbon. We decided to test it with fairly light Texas rigs to start. We used a 1/4-ounce Eco-Pro Tungsten Bullet Weight, Mustad Extreme Flipping hook and a Zoom Brush Hog or Gene Larew Mega Ring Tube to put it through the rigors pitching grass and wood.
The rod handled well with this setup. Surprisingly we could throw the baits very long distances and feel every rock as we drug it along the bottom. The rod is long but it didn’t seem to add any fatigue to a normal day of fishing. And having another few inches on the a long cast really made hooksets a lot easier.
The Halo HFTS76MHC has plenty of backbone, but the tip allows the rod to load up on hooksets giving better hook penetration and good control when playing fish. Even in matted grass, the hook penetrated well and fish were pulled to the top sometimes with a pound or two of coontail attached.
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