Fished V for years until a few years ago when I bought a house that needs a lot of work and had a baby.
Irony was that one of the reasons I bought a house was because I got sick of washing my 160qt cooler in the bathtub of my condo and wanted to hose off the cooler in a driveway. But no time to go fishing now since I'm always busy working on the house.
I'm with others about paying 25 bux or so and renting the equipment first time around. I went through a few setups and wasted $$ buying and selling until I ended up building one myself as nothing was available off the rack nor I could find a custom rod builder who was willing to work with ideas I had.
My needs were:
spiral wrapped to stabilize the rod with a wide reel.
7.5-8' long to clear the hull
long foregrip made with tough material so i can rail without damaging the grip
long rear grip so I could sit on it while railing.
So I built the rod in the vid and as you can see, i had no issue landing that bigeye which took around 30-40 mins. For yellowfins, I usually take no longer than 5-7 mins with this setup. I feel that the longer you keep fish in the water, the higher chance of losing, so I try to finish it as fast as I can.
edit. how do i insert a vid?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATuz4RB8LEo
