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Monday, May 10th, 2010
You asked for them and we’re delivering on that promise: “Micro Guides are now available at Cajun Custom Rods!” We’ve run through extensive field trials with several different American Tackle micro guides and multiple micro guide system layouts. Cajun Custom Rods has completed our independent testing and have concluded, with help from you – the faithful anglers who’ve demo’d our micro guide rods … the decision was unanimous … “We’ve got to have ‘em!” So after you read the below information, hop on over and click on this Build A Rod link to start designing your next Cajun Custom Rod with our newest micro guide sets … we know you’ll “Experience the difference!”
So why micro guides? Well here’s a few immediate benefits we’ve discovered here at Cajun Custom Rods through the process:
- Super tough, super durable frames and guide rings. These little guides can handle the meanest of fishing lines … to include casting any braid, mono, or fluorocarbon line that we put through them. Hell – we’re not exactly sure what American Tackle’s Nanolite material is made of, but it’s tough as a diamond, smooth as glass, and looks great too!
- Increased sensitivity. As your fishing line feeds through the micro guides, we discovered that they reduced obscure rod vibrations (such as after a long, powerful cast or from water current) and helped us hone in on the “good vibrations” we were seeking … the nibble, the bite, the catch … every crook, nook, and cranny we couldn’t see under the water. In fact, our situational awareness with structure and conditions under the water were so improved that we found we could fish really tricky spots like “in and on” oyster beds, “through the middle” of underwater brush piles, and “straight into the heart” of shoreline vegetation over/under-hang.
- Reduced rod weight. Because micro guides are so small and light, using them reduced the overall rod weights as much as 1/2 ounce in most cases (when compared to traditional guide set ups). Over the course of a days fishing/casting (and we cast a whole lot) the pounds add up – so much that we discovered we were less fatigued at the days end and our arms remained fresh to fish again the next day … “Yep, go ahead twist our arms to fish some more!”
- Better guide loading. We found that because the micro guides lie down the backbone of your custom fishing rod (or spline) and are significantly smaller than traditional casting guides, you can use more of them to keep your fishing line aligned with the rod and therefore, more guides equals a better distribution of the static and kinetic forces loaded up on your fishing rod … and trust us, micro guides are not afraid of “loading up” as we learned after catching several 30-plus inch redfish from the Jacksonville Intercoastal waterways (BTW: all fish were released alive).
- Enhanced rod balance. Due a lower rod center of gravity afforded by the low profile of the micro guide … the physics of these guides is optimum … like in football, stay low and use leverage to move your opponent … micro guides do just that as they help you catch fish more efficiently.
- Better casting performance. When it comes to casting … well, we have four simple words: “There are none better!” Smoother, longer, and more accurate casts are a direct result of the reduced friction, line slap, and line wave when your casting your favorite lure of plug. Same goes for the retrieve when you have a fish on … just in reverse
- Reduced rod and line tangles. We weren’t expecting this, but sure enough … we rarely found ourselves stopping while fishing to untangle the end of our braided line – even when casting into 20 knot headwinds on a few “blustery” days in April 2010.
Straight from American Tackle to Cajun Custom Rods and finally in your hands for design of your next custom fishing rod, we’re carrying three full sets of both full casting and split grip casting micro guide rod sets. Our micro guide sets are ready for immediate design for all rods 5 feet through 7 feet 6 inches. Cajun Custom Rods newest micro guide sets are:
 NBRLMG / NBMT Micro Guide Set NBRLMG / NBMT
The American Tackle NBRLMG black Micro Guides and matching NBMT Micro Guide tip offer considerably smaller rod guides than the conventional ones found on today’s casting and spinning rods. With outer ring diameters at only 4 mm, our Micro Guides and frames are cast in solid Atlas 316™ stainless steel. The Ring Lock™ frame increases the contact area around the diameter of the insert and the Nanolite™ ring is 45% stronger (ground round to reduce line wear and increase casting distance). A Pacific Bay “wide-mouth,” double-foot, stainless steel Hook Keeper is color-matched and included with your CCR guide set selection.
 NCRLMG / NCMT Micro Guide Set NCRLMG / NCMT
The American Tackle NCRLMG chrome Micro Guides and matching NCMT Micro Guide tip offer considerably smaller rod guides than the conventional ones found on today’s casting and spinning rods. With outer ring diameters at only 4 mm, our Micro Guides and frames are cast in solid Atlas 316™ stainless steel. The Ring Lock™ frame increases the contact area around the diameter of the insert and the Nanolite™ ring is 45% stronger (ground round to reduce line wear and increase casting distance). A Pacific Bay “wide-mouth,” double-foot, stainless steel Hook Keeper is color-matched and included with your CCR guide set selection.
 NIMG / NCMT Micro Guide Set NIMG / NCMT
The American Tackle NIMG chrome Micro Guides and matching NCMT Micro Guide tip offer considerably smaller rod guides than the conventional ones found on today’s casting and spinning rods. With outer ring diameters at only 4 mm, our Micro Guides and frames are cast in solid TITAN™ titanium and 100% corrosion proof. The solid titanium frame increases the overall stability and strength of the guides and the Nanolite™ ring is 45% stronger reducing line wear and increasing casting distance). A Pacific Bay “wide-mouth,” double-foot, stainless steel Hook Keeper is color-matched and included with your CCR guide set selection. Select the NIMG/NCMT guide set and get these immediate benefits from your next Cajun Custom Rod: cast any braid, mono, or fluorocarbon line, increased sensitivity, reduced rod weight, better guide loading, better balance, a lower rod center of gravity, smoother, longer, and more accurate casts, and reduced rod and line tangles.
Tags: American Tackle, braid, Braided line, center of gravity, Florida, friction, Intercoastal waterway, Jacksonville, line slap, Micro Guides, Nanolite, NBMT, NBRLMG, NCMT, NCRLMG, NIMG
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Sunday, May 9th, 2010
Well, you’ve been patient and we’ve been busy! After a few traded emails with representatives from North Fork Composites, headed by the legendary rod-maker himself – Gary Loomis, Cajun Custom Rods ordered a few of the NFC rod blanks to see for ourselves. Cajun Custom Rods received a few North Fork Composites rod blanks from our distributors and all we have to say is, “Wow!” We’re impressed … so much that we immediately updated our Build A Rod page to include these fantastic state-of-the-art and innovative rod blanks. Our expert certified rod-builder, Jaesen Yerger, says that the North Fork Composites rod blanks are some of the finest rod blanks he’s tested in the in the custom rod and sport fishing industry. Yep, you heard it here first … these blanks are brimming with cutting edge design … just the type of high-end technology we seek out to ensure that you, our faithful customers, always have “Freedom of the choice” when it comes to having the the best fishing components and gear available … especially when it comes to designing your own custom fishing rod!
Cajun Custom Rods is offering a full-line selection of north Fork Composites Rod blanks to include: NEXT SM, NEXT IM, and NEXT HM series rod blanks. All North Fork Composites rod blanks are all available in “Raw Carbon.” In other words, no added “color” at all, just the pure, unadulterated beauty of graphite, sanded, but uncoated. NFC feels that this “non-finish” allows North Fork blanks to perform unencumbered, and express themselves as best as possible.
 North Fork Composites - "Raw Carbon" ... natural ... powerful ... unencumbered. Here’s an overview of each of the North Fork Composites rod blank series:
Standard Modulus Graphite
NFC’s “Next SM” (as in Next-Generation SM) blanks represent a standard base of 33-modulus material with a perfect balance of resin and scrim meticulously crafted into NFC core blank models. When you layout that first cast, you’ll have a smile on your face.
Intermediate Modulus Graphite
You just can’t say “intermediate” without people thinking “average.” That’s okay, as long as average means, “a ten pound fish is about average for me.” The thing is, when you fish with a Next IM rod, a ten pound fish may become just an average fish for you. After all, NFC’s mid-modulus rod makes a darn fine tool for targeting your average trophy. Not that long ago, mid modulus was the “hot stuff.” All this made it difficult for NFC to figure out what to call Next IM, so just consider Next IM blanks high performance, without the high price.
High Modulus Graphite
Next HM — The top of the line. With its Paper Carbon Scrim (PCS) and high-modulus fiber (just how high is NFC’s little secret), the Next HM graphite produces what is currently NFC’s lightest available blank. Sweet stuff!
Tags: blank, blanks, Gary Loomis, high modulus, modulus, NEXT HM, NEXT IM, NEXT SM, North Fork Composites, Raw Carbon, rod blank, rod blanks
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Thursday, April 29th, 2010
If you love fishing with kids, then you’re gonna’ absolutely fall in love with little Savannah … she catches her first fish and it was captured on video … so, in good faith … watch and listen closely as she has to “pay the piper” and kiss Mr. Bass Fish BTW – she reeled the fish in all by herself after we launched the lure across the pond.
Savannah Kisses The Fish
Tags: first fish Savannah video
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Saturday, April 24th, 2010
Hey everyone! Well, it’s official, micro guides are here! Yep – though not in the CCR database just yet … we are however accepting phone orders for custom fishing rods built using micro guides! We should have them entered into our database in a week or so. In fact, we have one pending order for a 7 foot St. Croix 5C70MF-SC V custom fishing rod … split grip and with micro guides. So if you’ve been looking for yet another cutting edge tool to add to your “bag of fishing tricks,” waste no more time looking around. Just hop onto our Build-A-Rod page and start designing your very own Cajun Custom Fishing Rod! In the interim, feel free to check our gallery as we post updates routinely … who knows? maybe you’ll see a design that will spark your interest or even better, inspire your next custom fishing rod design. be sure to check us out at these other sites:
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New Video
Fish are biting … be sure to grab a fishing rod you can trust from us at Cajun Custom Rods!
 Cajun Custom Rods - Jaesen & Stacy
Tags: Links video micro guides Stacy Yerger Jaesen Yerger custom fishing rods fishing
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Wednesday, April 7th, 2010
Well, it’s official .. CCR is headed to Omaha, Nebraska come June 2010! We’ll be keeping the business in Jacksonville, Florida … but moving some of the business over to Omaha. So, don’t be surprised if you’re next rod comes from our newest distribution center located in the heartland of the United States. From a logistics standpoint, it makes common “cents,” and we’re excited to grow our footprint as we continue to grow and reach new customers who want and expect the very best in their fishing equipment, namely … their custom fishing rod from Cajun Custom Rods. That said, we’ve located a new location and will be sending out updates to y’all sooner than later so you know where to reach us. For now however, our contact information will remain the same … that’s the beauty of technology and leveraging the cutting edge. We’re already in research and development stages of our new facility and planning is in progress. Even better, for all you fishermen and women in the Midwest, we’ve already started investigating those “best fishing locations – you know, your favorite fishing holes.” We figure that we better get to know how you fish, where you fish, and what you fish for … your techniques and those little tricks-of-the-trade that make you an expert in your area and home waters such as: Lake Zorinsky, Lake Manawa, Lake Burchard, Merritt Reservoir, Stagecoach Reservoir, Lake Wehrspann, Lake McConaughy, Smith Lake WMA, Grand Island, Branched Oak Reservoir, Harlan County Reservoir, and Sherman Reservoir, Box Butte Resrvoir, and Maloney Reservoir … just to name a few (and we know from the talk of the town that there are many, many more – and that’s a great thing when it comes to fishing). There’s nothing better than a great selection of “where to fish” … because it is the first part of the equation to knowing how to fish the location. Starting locally, we’ll be running rods and building those for the serious bass, walleye, perch, muskie, and pike anglers … or just those of you who desire a better rod for your hard-earned money. Yep, same company, same quality, just a different location. We’ll post updates as available, but the bottom line is that we’re here to stay and its you that have enabled us to be a part of every community – so to our loyal customers we say, “Thank you.” Now hop in and keep up the ordering, that’s right … keep designing and developing your perfect-fit and custom fishing rods and we’ll keep building your fishing rods “One at a time.”
Tags: Bass, catfish, Crappie, Muskie, Nebraska Fishing, Omaha Fishing, Perch, Pike, Walleye
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Saturday, March 27th, 2010
I had the day off work, so I decided I would go wet a line and do some moving around on the water today. I fished this morning and early afternoon in Black Creek at the back of Doctors Lake … the bass aren’t on the beds yet – caught 2 largemouth around 2-3 pounds each, missed a good one (4-5 lbs). All bass were caught with a Terminator chartreuse spinnerbait (1/2 oz) – I was surprised because I fished (carolina rigged and flipping-pitching) a 6 inch Zoom Junebug curl tail worm for two hours and nothing even looked at it. I worked the spinnerbait around the lay-downs and over the flats in the back of Black Creek (water temp was around 67/68 degrees). Then I ran back northeast into Doctors Lake to see if there were any bedding bass in Flemming’s Cove … no beds and the winds were putting up 1-3 foot waves, so I booked out of there and headed back to the marina at NAS Jax. While in Black Creek, I saw a couple of nice size gators (one was an easy 7-8 feet … just hanging out and enjoying the sun today). Since the west wind really picked up, I pulled the boat and traveled north up the 95 to the 9A to drop the boat in at Clapboard Creek to fish the incoming high and outgoing low tides tonight. I put in at Clapboard Creek around 4:30 PM and ran the river behind Blount Island to the Dames … then to Dunn’s Creek to hit a few spots I like (man, the west wind was putting out some chop on the main river). After catching a few flounder and a red before sunset, I headed back east and fished behind Blount Island and into Broward Creek. I ended up with another small flounder, three 15-17 inch reds (1 at the base of an oyster bed and the other two in little grass cuts where there was water moving through just as high tide steadied up), and about 15 trout once the sun went down … only one was over fifteen inches – the rest were little guys. Water temps in the creeks on the incoming tide was 64-65, water temp in the creeks at slack was 66/67. I caught all the trout in and around Blount island … in the lights, near structure (dock pilings, rocks, etc.), and once the high tide started dropping out and moving the water out into the main river.
Pretty much from around 10:00 AM this morning until around 8:00 PM this evening the wind was steady out of the west at 10-15 knots. Then, the wind dropped off and went light/variable up to 5 knots. I got off the water around 10:30 PM … fishing was just slow today for me, but man was it gorgeous out there … ready for the heat and the sun
I fished a gold/speckled with white underbelly Mann’s jerk-bait, a white chub-tail plastic minnow on a 3/8 oz jig head, and a 4 inch Berkley Gulp Natural Molt shrimp. No takers on the jerk-bait, a few trout on the minnow, and everything else hit the Berkley Gulp shrimp. All fish today that were caught were released back into the wild … to catch again another day.
If the weather will at least hold in the upper 60′s low 70′s and Mr. W. I. N. D. will stay away, the upcoming weeks for both freshwater and inshore/saltwater fishing should prove to be fantastic as the bite heats up. I can’t wait!
Tags: alligator, Berkley Gulp, Black Creek, Blount island, Broward Creek, cajun custom rods, Clapboard Creek, Doctors Lake, Dunn's Creek, Flemming Cove, Flounder, Freshwater, Garmin, Garmin 460SX, Gator, Inshore, Largemouth Bass, Redfish, Saltwater, Speckled Trout, spinnerbait, trout
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Thursday, March 25th, 2010
Hey all! Wow, been a busy last week … but, finally got around to joining and getting dug in on a local web forum called Jax Trout Trackers (hosted by Capt. Dave Sipler). You can check out his blog at:
http://jacksonvillefishingreports.blogspot.com/
Once there, be sure to check out the link on the right side of the blog page and you’ll see the link for the Jax Trout Trackers … sign up and within a blink, you’ll be into some of the best local Jacksonville trout fishing reports, information, stories, and just fantastic fishing camaraderie in no time.
Quick update for y’all: We’ve come to conclusion that we’re gonna’ carry the American Tackle micro guides, specifically the Atlas 316 Stainless Steel and TITAN solid titanium alloy micro guides). We’ll have the components worked into the Build-A-Rod guide component selections by the weekend as separate and complete guide set additions. To date, the feedback has been incredible on the micro guides! I have had multiple folks (freshwater and inshore anglers) try the micro and traditional guide set rods side-by-side and hands-down, the micro guide rod is a sure hit! We’ll have final pics up this weekend as well, so be sure to check out the gallery to see for yourself and then … design a rod or two with the new micro guide sets … the spring bite is here and its not to late to get your order in to us so you too can catch a few memories with your new Cajun Custom Rod!
Additionally, we’ve finally wrapped up the Military decals and they are now selectable in the “Rod Decal Image Pulldown List.” Just choose Military from the list, find the military image decal (visually of course) that is best for your rod and show your true colors! For those of you seeking to support the troops, be sure to build a rod up and select your favorite military image for your Cajun Custom Rod decal. Hoorah!
Here’s a sample for those of us with a little “Blue and Gold” in our blood:
 "Go Navy!"
Tags: American Tackle, Atlas 316 Stainless Steel, decal, Jax Trout Trackers, Micro Guides, Military Image Decals, Navy, TITAN, titanium, trout, Trout Fishing
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Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
As the winter season begins to fade and we all start watching the weather in preparation the spring fishing season, we’ve also been busy adding to our line of custom rod components at CCR. That said, we now have “College Rod Decals” as a selectable rod component for your next Cajun Custom Rod. Yep – that’s right! At Cajun Custom Rods, we have provided you with the opportunity to add your favorite college team on your next custom rod. 57 of the most popular college teams from the ACC, BIG 12, BIG EAST, BIG 10, CUSA, MAC, MWC, PAC 10, SEC, WAC and independent schools. These officially licensed full color college decals are printed with UV resistant inks and feature “laser cut” edges with a thin white margin around the contour to provide contrast against your rod blank.
 Louisiana State University (LSU) College Rod Decal We’ll be adding military rod decals in the next few days so you can show your true colors and support our service members with pride. Be sure to stop back in and check ‘em out! Go Navy!
I went fishing on the St. John’s River this past weekend … just absolutely amazing to be on the water again … especially with a CCR custom fishing rod in hand. I worked a 4-inch Berkely Gulp root-beer colored shrimp on a 3/8 ounce jig for about 4 hours. The water was a chilly 55 degrees, but the sun was out with air temps hitting 65 degrees. Landed six Speckled Trout (all caught and released as February is a closed trout season in the Northeast Florida region) and three Redfish (all released to be caught another day). Wow! Talk about fun in the sun … especially with the frigid weather and howling north winds! Be sure to check out the CCR gallery for a few updated photos of a nice Speckled Trout and Redfish. Oh, the rod that I used for both the trout and redfish was a Cajun Custom Rod: 7 ft G. Loomis (P8400) rod blank, American Tackle solid titanium “Ring Lock” guides, Fuji casting reel seat, and a full handle of the finest quality 3A Portuguese cork.
BTW: Micro guide rod is laid up and turning … can’t wait for the “spin and dry cycle” to complete … stay posted because we’ll have a few pics to show ya’ once its done … and a field test comparison to follow.
Tags: American Tackle, Cajun Custom Rod, cajun custom rods, casting reel seat, CCR, College Rod Decals, cork handle, custom fishing rod, custom rod, fishing, fishing rod, Fuji, full grip, G Loomis, Micro Guides, micro rod guides, Military Rod Decals, red fish, Redfish, rod blank, rod component, rod guide, rod guides, Speckled Trout, St. John's River, trout
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