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Originally Posted by pikester
The whole Marmish rod thing is intriguing to me, I almost bought one last season. I have trouble with a couple things though; first I catch perch right now on an ultra light setup & some of those jumbos bend my rod in half so I have a hard time visualizing how you could fight a big perch on a palm rod! Secondly what happens when you accidently hook a 4lb walleye on one of those things??
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best way to explain the marmish is that you don't reel or fight a fish on it...you hand line it. I hand line more perch unless it is cold. That way my depth is always the same and you don't risk getting weeded.
The tip on the marmish and the shortness of the rod let's you apply a different action to the hook and the tip is way more sensitive than an ultra light and even the spring on my panfish popper.
I have hooked 10 lb rainbows...and hand lined it no problem.