Eagle Claw Starfire X trolling combo’s. Any good ( enough )?

[matt167]

Anyone have any experience with them? 8’6 medium heavy with a line counter reel is $90 at Dicks sporting goods. Walmart has a similar rod and reel for same price but it’s probably built for WM as they do that. I’ve got to outfit my boat since I’ve never had a trolling boat myself and I need a couple more rods. My dad suggests a medium heavy with wire and a twilly to run dipsys. He doesn’t know what reel I should get that won’t break the bank as he likes Penn reels except he does not like his Penn line counters. He told me that most of my fish will be cought on dipsy’s

Finger lakes fishing. Lake trout. I do have down riggers and planers as well.

 

[aspeck]

Catch 50/50 of the lake trout with dipseys and downriggers. Medium-heavy rod should be okay. I have not used them personally, but have seen decent reviews on these combos. At $90, they are a great value, I believe. If I needed more I would not hesitate to purchase.

 

[matt167]

Looks like I’ll be buying a couple

 

[dingbat]

My dad suggests a medium heavy with wire and a twilly to run dipsys. He doesn’t know what reel I should get that won’t break the bank as he likes Penn reels except he does not like his Penn line counters.

Still have two Penn 113 HSP loaded with wire. Neither have not left the rack in 10-15 years. Braid works just as well w/o all the head aches of wire.

Gave up on line counting years ago. Tried clip-ons and LC reels just sux. Starting counting “bars” to set lines.

Turns out, one trip of the levelwind (over and back) on my Penn GTi 330 and 320 reels are a couple of inches shy (320) and a couple in over (330) 10 feet. It’s bullet proof and a whole lot easier than watching a counter.

Makes it easy to tell people to let this rod out “15 bars”…let this rod out “10 bars”.