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It was the closest thing I’d found to a perfect catfish rod. Croix rods) and it was an amazing fishing rod.

Years ago there was a rod in production call the St. I’ve been on a constant quest to find the “perfect” catfish rod and finally realized that it just didn’t exist. I’ve used a lot of good catfish rods since I started my career as a catfish guide and some really awful rods also. More and more companies are trying to build products for catfish anglers and that includes good quality catfish rods. In the past five years the market has changed significantly. They weren’t quite “beefy” enough for manhandling really big trophy blues but I made them work for lack of better options. I used a variety of brands and models of steelhead rods over the years with great success. This led me to use fishing rods designed for steelhead fishing as an alternative. If you were targeting smaller cats you could give up trying to feel anything. I started calling them broomstick rods because it felt like fishing with a broomstick and even the biggest fish would barely bend the fishing rod. That’s when I coined the term “broomstick rods”which is the term I use to describe these big heavy rods that many of the big brands market. They were heavy, lacked sensitivity and most were poorly built and didn’t last long. I tried them all and never found one I was crazy about or even liked at all for that matter. There were limited catfish rod options at that time, there were two or three different rods that were “built for catfish anglers”. More importantly they weren’t well suited for many of the techniques used for catching catfish. When I started catching blues and flatheads more consistently and started catching bigger cats I quickly realized these lightweight graphite rods were mismatched for catching catfish of any size. They weren’t be any means catfish rods, but I really didn’t know what a good catfish rod was and never really knew I needed one. I used a variety of fishing rods, most were some sort of lighter weight freshwater rods with graphite blanks. I spent years targeting channel catfish with an occasional blue or flathead mixed in and finding a “catfish rod” was the last thing to cross my mind.