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Super Grade Premium Cork – Now Available for your next Cajun Custom Rod!

Jaesen Yerger — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 05:01:06 +0000

We’ve been hard at work prepping yet another release of premium custom fishing rod components for y’all – Super Grade Premium Cork is now available! Now when you design your own custom fishing rod at Cajun Custom Rods, you have the freedom of choice to choose Super Grade Premium Cork as a custom rod component with the following handle systems:
– Full Casting Grip
– Full Spinning Grip
– Split Grip (Casting)

Our Super Grade Premium Grade Cork grips are the absolute best cork grips available in the industry … period. Don’t let the soft touch fool you as these super-dense cork grips are tough, durable, and extremely sensitive. On top of that – they look great!

You’ll feel every bite, nibble, chomp, and hit from walleye, bass, perch, catfish, redfish, trout … you name it … using these Super Grade Premium Cork handles. Additionally, hard-rubber composite infused cork is utilized where “normal wear-and-tear” of cork handles regularly occurs … at the cork ends and where the reel seat rests … trust us when we say ” This cork is made to last!”

Keep in mind, all of the Cajun Custom Rod handle systems and grips are treated with U-40 cork preserver and designed to provide you the right leverage with the right feel. Your Cajun Custom Rod Super Grade Premium Cork grips are certain to provide spinning and casting performance you can trust and certain to be the next deadly weapon in your fishing arsenal!

Run and Gun (Jax Fishing Report 26 March 2010)

Jaesen Yerger — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 05:31:17 +0000

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!

Micro Guides, Military Decals, and Jax Trout Trackers

Jaesen Yerger — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 03:45:31 +0000

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!"

College Decals Are Here!

Jaesen Yerger — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 05:07:47 +0000

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.