To champion the Great Lakes, one must master deep water fishing. Distinguished walleye hunter Dale Stroschein, makes a living firing jigs into the bottomless fathoms to find and fetch fish. His new gamefish rod is fraught with features that keep the feel in your hands, no matter how deep old marble-eyes dwells.        

27 hard years of guiding have earned Paul Nelson a Doctorate in Ice Fishing. A thinking man’s-man, he gets inside the heads of predator fish, extracts their deepest secrets, and then performs a mental dissection of their environment.  That sort of critical thinking goes into everything he does - the design and performance of this pike and walleye rod included.

• Stiff backbone for heavy bites
• Smooth setting fiberglass blank

Freshwater beasts of burden they are, those hulking and tireless trout. Trout-head Eric Haataja is equally tireless. He gets his kicks taming their power, be they lakers, browns or steelhead. The full-time guide not only has to outthink them, but also wield a weapon worthy of taming their tenacity. So he went to Frabill and said, “Here, make this.” They did.         

• Soft glass rod plays big fish on light line
• Super-long to power sweeping hooksets