XTREME STORIES: “You Have to Fish This Rod”
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Walleye Wizard, John Balla, on the NEW St. Croix Legend® Xtreme
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Park Falls, WI (March 2, 2020) – How does one describe the indescribable? Here’s what walleye pro, John Balla, had to say about his first experience fishing the all-new Legend® Xtreme – St. Croix’s most-sensitive rod series ever:
“We were snap-jigging in the weeds. Normally, you’re throwing out these long casts and you’re not sure what you’re hitting. You think you’re hitting some weeds – we’re trying to target weed areas – and you kind of let it sink. With this rod, I was able to tell when my jig and my paddletail was hitting weeds. I was going through these snaps… snap and reeling fast… snap and reeling fast. On that snap, your line goes slack; there’s no direct connection, just a slack line between that lure and my hand. I would feel these electric strikes that I’ve never felt before. Thump! I knew exactly what I was going to do after that… reel down and set the hook. Sure enough, we ended up catching 15 to 20 walleyes that day, most of them on a slack line. On another rod, I may have missed that bite. But because all that information is being downloaded through these guides that are now the same material as the blank, I felt those strikes more than I’ve ever felt them before. You have to fish this rod. I can tell you that these are carbon guides, that this is a carbon blank that’s highly sensitive, tremendously light, and it’s sending all kinds of information… you can take my word for it. But better yet… you have to fish this rod.”
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Meet the New Legend Xtreme Models
Designed and handcrafted for extreme sensitivity in Park Falls, USA, the new Legend® Xtreme blends St. Croix’s highest-grade materials and proprietary technologies with a carbon fiber Daiwa AGSTM guide train and an all-new Gen2 Xtreme-Skin handle. The series includes seven rods — four new casting models and three new spinning models – and will be available for purchase online at https://stcroixrods.com/collections/rod-shopper and at participating St. Croix dealers beginning Friday, March 6 – the day of its official launch at the 2020 Bassmaster Classic.
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About St. Croix Rod
Headquartered in Park Falls, Wisconsin, St. Croix has been proudly producing the “Best Rods on Earth” for over 70 years. Combining state-of-the-art manufacturing processes with skilled craftsmanship, St. Croix is the only major producer to still build rods entirely from design through manufacturing. The company remains family-owned and operates duplicate manufacturing facilities in Park Falls and Fresnillo, Mexico. With popular trademarked series such as Legend®, Legend Xtreme®, Avid®, Premier®, Tidemaster®, Imperial®, Triumph® and Mojo, St. Croix is revered by all types of anglers from around the world.
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