If you’re into crappie, bluegill or perch fishing you’re going to love St. Croix’s latest and greatest, the perfectly named Panfish Series. This new series features two awesome platforms from which to choose. First we have the spinning rods that go up to 7′ in ultra-light and light powers with crisp actions designed to protect your ultra light lines from bull gills and mega crappies!. If you like dropping jigs into brush piles and dabbleing around dock pillions – and who doesn’t? – the 8′ to 11′ models with moderate-fast actions have raised the performance bar when it comes to long, light power spinning rods. The Panfish Series is changing the way fishermen view fishing these pint size bruisers of the fish world.
The blanks are made from Premium quality SCII graphite combined with high-modulus/high-strain SCVI graphite for optimal weight, sensitivity and balance.They are designed to provide you superior performance while targeting our tasty friends the crappie, perch and bluegill.
The rod is clad with Pac Bay Minima guides which is a weight saving of 20-30% when compared to ceramic guides, and they also give you greater sensitivity.Topping off the component list on these rods is a Pac Bay Minima reel seat with a custom insert which they say gives you even more sensitivity and comfort. Then these sweet stixs are finished with premium-grade cork handle for all day comfort!
This series of rods are going to be a game changer in the panfish world for sure. It is a series that only a diehard panhead would think of!
Quality
Doesn’t St.Croix mean high quality in french? Well it might not really mean that but these rods are sure to make a great case for that definition to be add to the Webster.
Reliability
These skillful crafted rods give you the power to muscle fish from their haunts while protecting the ultra-light stealth lines that we panheads use in the clear waters of the north.The rods are durable, sensitive and are fantastically well designed rods, that will last well past the 5 year warranty St. Croix is offering.
Price/Value
The series starts at $100 for it’s 5 foot ultra-light and goes up to $180 for it brush pile master stick ,the 11 foot light rod.These rods are at the top of the price curve for many panheads, but few rods series have tried to answer the demands of the pan-fisherman. St. Croix is daring to do that with this series. Which sets it apart from the rest of the field at the top.
Referability
If your a serious panhead like me this is a rod series you need to look into. This will change how you look at rods for the tasty fish we all like to target.
Shane on this article, I have been buying st.croix rods and reels for decades, and these rods are a huge failure. These rods are made in Mexico where the ratio of american workers to mexican workers is 10:450 sad…just…sad. I can’t believe st.croix sold out of the US market. And if your looking for the made in Mexico label, well its not on the rod, its a very tiny sticker they placed on the bottom of the handle, for shame st.croix….
They haven’t taken all of there rods there. The quality is good from what I have used of the ones being made in Mexico.
Justin, I’ve got the 7′ model and I love it. I’ve read Andy’s exact negative review here on other sites. Give it a rest dude. These are great rods! I’ve been waiting for years for someone to build a 7′ super lightweight one piece casting rod. You can throw a 1/16oz jig waaaaay out there and the sensitivity is amazing. Really fast tip with good backbone makes casting and setting the hook easy. If your a jig slinger like me you’ll love this rod.
For the people that say the st. croix panfish rods are crap they have no clue what a fishing rod is. This is by far the best rod i ever used. I have to 5’6 rods and just ordered the 6’9. They are extremely lightweight yet durable. You feel absolutely everything on this rod the sensitivity is nothing like i have ever fished worth every penny. This is my ultra light rod i dont just use it for panfish i catch smallies, walleye, even catfish on it. I live right next to the ohio river and this is my rod of choice. I was fishing a powerplant one day fishing for smallies and I locked horns with a big one on my panfish rod with 6lb line. Took me forever to get it in but the rod held up beautifully. It was a flathead cat that tipped the digital scale at 15 lbs….now that is a sensitive but powerful panfish rod!