cheap sabiki rod found - Kayak Fishing Adventures on Big Water’s Edge

Grego · 07-17-2006, 03:54 PM

Another option for a Sabiki Rod. Why? I couldn't see/want to tell my merciless yak buddies I spent $$$ on a rod to catch sardines.

I thought the PVC rod concept was a good idea, except I noted that there was no action at the tip. I seen them catch small macs, but up here sometimes all we get (and sometimes what's working) are little sardines, smelt, and other small bait fish and I needed to feel that little 'tap' 'tap'. Over several years I also noted that almost all my tangles I get while traveling on the water with it are from the bait rods 'Guides' and 'Main Line' feeding through the guides. I don't get it caught on other rods or gear, so I saw no purpose in having it crawl up into anything, so I just needed a 6ft rod.

What I wanted was a 6ft rod with no guides, no main line showing, action at the tip, some castability, some fishability, and not cost me anymore $$$ than those expensive owner/hayabusa sabikis. So, I grabbed that 6ft rod that everyone has in the garage that you can't remember where you got from and cut the fook'n guides off, cut the fook'n tip off, glued a bead to the tip so i don't poke my fook'n eye out, drilled a fook'n hole in the base, smoothed all the right places with fine grit sand paper, fed the 17lb p-line through the rod, tied a fook'n swivel to the end so it don't retract and I just gotta snap the sabiki on, and now I got me one of those $150 eyeless fishing rods that breaks down into two pieces for my sabiki rod. If you guys like it, I can do a step by step write up.

NOW, the other tangles I get are from 6 fook'n pissed off macs getting all squirly on me, and ain't no rod out there gonna help that mess from happening.

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07-17-2006, 03:54 PM	#14
Grego Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 446	Another option for a Sabiki Rod. Why? I couldn't see/want to tell my merciless yak buddies I spent $$$ on a rod to catch sardines. I thought the PVC rod concept was a good idea, except I noted that there was no action at the tip. I seen them catch small macs, but up here sometimes all we get (and sometimes what's working) are little sardines, smelt, and other small bait fish and I needed to feel that little 'tap' 'tap'. Over several years I also noted that almost all my tangles I get while traveling on the water with it are from the bait rods 'Guides' and 'Main Line' feeding through the guides. I don't get it caught on other rods or gear, so I saw no purpose in having it crawl up into anything, so I just needed a 6ft rod. What I wanted was a 6ft rod with no guides, no main line showing, action at the tip, some castability, some fishability, and not cost me anymore $$$ than those expensive owner/hayabusa sabikis. So, I grabbed that 6ft rod that everyone has in the garage that you can't remember where you got from and cut the fook'n guides off, cut the fook'n tip off, glued a bead to the tip so i don't poke my fook'n eye out, drilled a fook'n hole in the base, smoothed all the right places with fine grit sand paper, fed the 17lb p-line through the rod, tied a fook'n swivel to the end so it don't retract and I just gotta snap the sabiki on, and now I got me one of those $150 eyeless fishing rods that breaks down into two pieces for my sabiki rod. If you guys like it, I can do a step by step write up. NOW, the other tangles I get are from 6 fook'n pissed off macs getting all squirly on me, and ain't no rod out there gonna help that mess from happening.