A 4.5 would be more accurate.
Quality is there, but I ordered the Medium and it’s more like a medium bass rod. Not much backbone. Very slim, not great for big hands. I wound not use this for vertical jigging on anything more than a 100 grams (3.5 ounces) and 80 would be better. It’s so light a Penn 5000 size is really too heavy for it. It has a slow action, so for casting metal, I really wouldn’t recommend it for that, as a jigging rod, it’s only so so.Shimano tends to run light so a 5000 size would work, but it’s really better paired with a lighter reel, 4000-4500 and most of us would not consider that size reel for jigging. So, maybe in the MH or Heavy, this is a totally different review. But I wouldn’t recommend the medium, there are better options out their. So it’s not great for casting, very limited for vertical jigging, it’s not really great for anything, but it does have Daiwa quality, and at $100 it’s a pretty good entry level price. I’d limit your jig to 2 ounces and I think it would perform well, but the medium just can’t handle any more than that. It just doesn’t have the snap. The Shimano or Tsunami are better and about the same price. So I would not recommend the Medium action, unless you throw light metal, sort of a light style of fishing. If so, your getting a great rod for the money, but for any thing else I wouldn’t recommend it for anything over a couple ounces. A heavier action in may be very different but avoid the Medium. Fluke, blue fish in the Northeast, sure, but you’re not going to pull up Grouper, Red snapper, or amberjack in the South. If you’re targeting 10lb fish it’s a joy, super lightweight, but it won’t really handle big stripers, big redfish, cobia, big kings, big jacks, blackfin tuna, or any heavy jigs, so that’s why I gave it 4 stars, it wasn’t what I expect it to be and it’s limited in what it can do - at least in the Medium Action.
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