Be sure to take advantage of Cajun Custom Rods® 4th of July promotional code before it ends – so far, this has been an exceptional deal that many anglers have taken advantage for their custom fishing rod purchase. With your next purchase (when you checkout) of a performance fishing rod from Cajun Custom Rods®, enter the promotional code: INDEPENDENCE! You’ll receive $20.00 off your custom fishing rod and receive a FREE Gift from us at Cajun Custom Rods® (valued at $25.00). So before you hit the water next, you’ll want to arm yourself with the right equipment. At Cajun Custom Rods®, we’re always on the lookout to not only put you in the best custom fishing rod possible, but also to save you a few dollars in the process. Yep, we know … paying less for a superior fishing rod just doesn’t seem intuitive. However, that’s just what we provide …. a superior fishing rod to any “off-the-shelf” or other fishing rod that your hard-earned money can buy. When it comes to premium component quality, craftsmanship, or attention to detail, you’re not going to find a larger selection or better service … period. When you think of it, it’s in ...
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CCR® Now Offers 160 Thread Colors – 61 New ProWrap™ Threads!
Cajun Custom Rods® is proud to announce that we have recently updated our inventory and now offer our customers 160 custom thread color choices for their next performance custom fishing rod design (viewable when you select your rod wrap colors on our Build A Rod™ page)! With the recent addition of 61 ProWrap™ thread colors in Color Fast and Metallic styles, the number of color combinations for your next custom fishing rod design is almost limitless! Now carrying 100% of American Tackle Company’s ProWrap™ Rod Building Thread (developed for years and tested by rod builders), your color selections for your next Cajun Custom Rod® in ProWrap™ thread is available in 80 colors in Color Fast and 39 colors in Metallic. ProWrap™ thread features strong tensile strength and bright colors pressure dyed for color consistency – both credentials are an absolute MUST when it comes to securing your custom fishing rod components (guides and hardware) to your rod blank and ensuring the colors maintain their brilliance for a lifetime. With so many choices of thread colors now available for your next performance custom fishing rod, be sure to Build Your Rod™ and show us your artistic style. Be sure to check out ...
Last Chance for Spring Savings -Build Your Rod™ & Save !!!
Be sure to take advantage of Cajun Custom Rods® springtime promotional code before it ends on 31 May 2012 – so far, this has been an exceptional deal that many anglers have taken advantage for their custom fishing rod purchase. With your next purchase (when you checkout) of a performance fishing rod from Cajun Custom Rods®, enter the promotional code: SPRINGSPAWN You’ll receive $30.00 off your custom fishing rod and receive a FREE Gift from us at Cajun Custom Rods® (valued at $25.00). So before you hit the water next, you’ll want to arm yourself with the right equipment. At Cajun Custom Rods®, we’re always on the lookout to not only put you in the best custom fishing rod possible, but also to save you a few dollars in the process. yep, we know … paying less for a superior fishing rod just doesn’t seem intuitive. However, that’s just what we provide …. a superior fishing rod to any “off-the-shelf” or other fishing rod that your hard-earned money can buy. When it comes to premium component quality, craftsmanship, or or attention to detail, you’re not going to find a larger offering or better service … period. When you think of ...
Cajun Custom Rods® Bass Tournament Update – Bill Bostic
Last weekend (28 April 2012) Cajun Custom Rods® Pro Staff Angler, Mr. Bill Bostic, fished to a 3rd-place finish in a Lake Of The Ozarks (LOZ) bass fishing tournament … swinging “Big Bass” for the tourney. “nice work Bill and congrats on not only fishing well, but landing the big bass!” The picture below shows the big bass and another 5 pound plus largemouth bass, anchoring Bill’s 19.86 pound tournament weight. Most of the fish, including the big girl (5.78lbs) were taken on a 1/2 ounce jig, PB&J, with a watermelon trailer in 10′ – 20′ of water. From Bill, “The latest CCR® flipping stick in my arsenal made feeling the bite, hook-setting and playing of the fish a breeze! The following day (29 April 2012), I fished another tourney at Mark Twain lake in N.E Missouri and the CCR® flippin stick did the trick again!” “A lot of the bass population are spawning, or attempting to do so right now all across Missouri. This makes for great flipping action with one of my favorite lures of choice, the magnum lizard. Colors are of course dictated by water clarity, however, it is hard to go wrong being armed with junebug ...
HD EVA Super Casting Split Grips Now Available!
At Cajun Custom Rods®, we bring to you yet another performance-enhanced fishing rod handle system for your next custom fishing rod design (Build A Rod™). Now offered, our High Density (HD) EVA Super Casting Split Grips are designed with performance in mind, and not at the expense of your comfort … or your wallet! Super soft and durable, you can grip these rod handles in any weather condition (wet or dry) because these performance rod grips just won’t let go. Made exclusively by Cajun Custom Rods®, these HD EVA Super Casting Split Grip fishing rod handles are designed to reduce weight, increase grip sensitivity, add leverage to the rod fulcrum, and provide pure fishing comfort all day (or night) long. The High Density (HD) rod grip ends are engineered to protect your rod at those “hot spots” … not to mention the HD EVA Super Grip looks fantastic! Your next custom fishing rod design leveraging the CCR® HD EVA Super Casting Split Grip rod handle system is certain to provide casting performance you can trust for a lifetime – so hold on tight! “Tight wraps, tight lines, and take a kid fishing!” – Jaesen Yerger Cajun Custom Rods® Web: www.cajuncustomrods.com Email: info@cajuncustomrods.com Phone: (904)-738-0301 / (904)-419-RODS
HD EVA Super Spinning Split Grips Now Available!
At Cajun Custom Rods®, we bring to you yet another performance-enhanced fishing rod handle system for your next custom fishing rod design (Build A Rod™). Now offered, our High Density (HD) EVA Super Spinning Split Grips are designed with performance in mind, and not at the expense of your comfort … or your wallet! Super soft and durable, you can grip these rod handles in any weather condition (wet or dry) because these performance rod grips just won’t let go. Made exclusively by Cajun Custom Rods®, these HD EVA Super Spinning Split Grip fishing rod handles are designed to reduce weight, increase grip sensitivity, add leverage to the rod fulcrum, and provide pure fishing comfort all day (or night) long. The High Density (HD) rod grip ends are engineered to protect your rod at those “hot spots” … not to mention the HD EVA Super Grip looks fantastic! Your next custom fishing rod design leveraging the CCR® HD EVA Super Spinning Split Grip rod handle system is certain to provide casting performance you can trust for a lifetime – so hold on tight! “Tight wraps, tight lines, and take a kid fishing!” – Jaesen Yerger Cajun Custom Rods® Web: www.cajuncustomrods.com Email: ...
Pro Staff Fishing Report: Mark Twain Lake, MO
This report just received from Mr. Bill Bostic, one of Cajun Custom Rod®’s Pro Staff Team members – “Thanks for the update Bill – awesome catch and those bass look healthy!”: Saturday, 4/7/12, fishing on Mark Twain Lake in NE Missouri. Lake conditions – advanced for early April, 58 – 60 degrees surface temps, water clear to slightly stained, bass in pre-spawn mode with early signs of spawning activity. Lure of choice, spinner baits and soft plastic drop baits, Texas rigged. Crankbaits would have been on the lure list, however with the lake recently rising, the flooded grass (mostly the dead variety) crankbaits were too cumbersome to fish effectively. Side note – with the enormous amount of spinnerbait fishing, it had me designing my next rod in my mind! 🙂 Bill
CCR®’s 2012 AlienRod series: “They’re Here …”
Introducing the Cajun Custom Rods® 2012 premier custom fishing rod line-up … the AlienRod™! Our 2012 AlienRod™ series, selectable in your very own custom fishing rod design, provides you the opportunity to experience the absolute most sensitive, performance-enhanced fishing rod you’ve ever fished. Leveraging the engineering, physics, and dynamic energy transfer embedded into these custom fishing rods, the exacting combination of these premium American Tackle and REC Recoil rod components is unlike any rod hardware combination you’ve ever fished! CCRs’ AlienRod™ guide sets perform like no other – in this or any world! American Tackle quad-leg traditional guides taper into Artus HD™ micro guides, then further taper into standard micros. Your AlienRod™ guide set is topped off with the addition of an REC Recoil titanium rod tip (with “spring-back technology”). All guides are forged in solid Atlas 316™ stainless steel and leverage the friction-free and durable properties of ATC’s Nanolite™ guide rings. A matching Pacific Bay “wide-mouth,” double-foot, stainless steel Hook Keeper is included with your AlienRod™ guide set. Leveraging time-tested physics to provide you elegant rod performance unlike any you’ve ever fished, the Cajun Custom Rods® 2012 premier AlienRod™ series certainly isn’t your “grandaddy’s rod!” A few design and performance enhancements that our AlienRod™ ...
“They’re Coming … Just Believe … “
Cajun Custom Rods® 2012 premier custom fishing rod line-up is coming soon … and these performance fishing rods are certainly “out of this world” as the engineering, physics, and dynamic energy transfer embedded into these custom fishing rods are unlike any you’ve ever seen. Anglers, stay tuned for updates … be ready to design your performance enhanced, 2012 premier … AlienRod™ … only from Cajun Custom Rods®. “They’re coming … Just Believe …” – Jaesen Yerger Cajun Custom Rods® Email: info@cajuncustomrods.com Phone: (904)-738-0301 / (904)-419-RODS
What is the Alabama Rig? How is It Used? What Fishing Rod Should I Choose?
When times are tough, folks in the United States don’t just sit back and rest on their laurels … they go fishing. When fishing is slow, those same Americans allow natural innovation and ingenuity to take hold of their thoughts and that’s when those world-class ideas hit you “like a ton of bricks.” Whether that angler’s thoughts have wandered to “the next best boat cup holder,” “a lure adjustment to get to the right depth or have the right wiggle, bobble, splash or other subdued action,” or “just another technical approach on how that angler is going to fill the live well with their targeted game-fish” … it just happens. That same angler comes up with a new idea, approach, or technique that not only makes common sense … but fantastic fishing-sense! The newest fishing lure to hit the water, the Alabama Rig, is no different because to fish one just makes sense. Recently, this new fishing lure has stormed not only the fishing scene, ranging from the avid recreational angler to bass fishing tournament pro circuits, but the fishing industry as well. So what is this “magic” fishing lure and how has it changed the way we think about ...
CCR® is Proud to Support “Heroes On the Water (HOW)” !!!
Cajun Custom Rods® is extremely excited to support “Heroes on the Water (HOW),” an organization that serves all military personnel who have been wounded, injured or disabled and helps them with their physical and mental recovery using the therapeutic qualities of fishing from kayaks. Cajun Custom Rods® will be donating one (1) handcrafted Cajun Custom Rod® which will be a U.S. Armed Forces / POW-MIA themed custom rod design, created specifically for this event. Additionally, we’re providing a CCR® promotional discount code/gift certificate to each of the HOW anglers in the HEROES Division. This is a full day of Kayak Fishing and Awards/Prizes for anglers in four divisions: Men’s, Women’s, Kid’s, and a special HERO Division for our Veterans. Be sure to mark your calendars as there will be plenty for everyone at this event … fun guaranteed for the whole family! With local chapters across the country, Heroes On the Water has teams of volunteers that arrange first-rate, absolutely FREE KAYAK FISHING TRIPS for the men and women. Over the past three years of taking a few thousand men and women of all branches of the armed services out kayak fishing, they’ve learned firsthand the ‘triple therapy’ of kayak fishing: 1) physical with paddling and fishing, ...
CCR® Goes “Through the Ice!”
New Mexico fishing has proved to be very different than the bass fishing of the midwest and the north woods fishing of Canada. Upon arrival to Raton, New Mexico I was eager to get my rods out and sample the trout fishing that I had read so much about. Within days of arrival I had gathered enough local intelligence that I felt I was prepared enough to try my hand at the local fisheries. The nearest body of water was Lake Maloya, about fifteen minutes north of the town and about a thousand feet higher in elevation putting it at around 7,000 feet above sea level. As I neared the lake my anticipation turned into grief. I rounded the final bend and crested the road along the top of the dam … ice … solid across the lake. How could there be ice covering a lake when the average winter temperature barely dips below forty? I drove back disgusted that I would have to wait until ice out to fish the lake. Over the next two days the fishing bug got the better of me. I decided to make the best of the situation and see if I could drag ...
American Tackle’s Bushido Blanks – CCR®’s Ready !!!
At Cajun Custom Rods®, we’re always on the lookout for “cutting edge” and “performance-enhancing” rod components. So, when we learned of a new line of “super secret rod blanks” that American Tackle has been developing … well, needless to say, we’ve been watching closely and have been trying to get additional information. Today, American Tackle has released some fantastic updates via their newsletter that we’d like to share: The process of developing Bushido blanks continues. It was a collaboration of fishermen, rod builders and blank engineers beginning the quest for the Bushido freshwater and inshore blanks. Combining the desired specifications to new materials and practical manufacturing takes time to perfect. Each round of samples produced must graduate an exacting series of evaluations. Their weights, tip/butt target sizes, as well as applicable action deflections are critiqued and refined every step of the way. Most of the process is done in-house however, once prototyped, many models are built and fished for final approval and we seem to have a lot of volunteers for that part of the process! Look for the Freshwater & Inshore Bushido’s to arrive in Mid-2012. Here’s a close-up of one of the Bushido Nano Super Composite Offshore Jigging & ...
Cajun Custom Rods® Selected as American Tackle Pro Staff !!!!
We’re proud to announce that American Tackle has selected Cajun Custom Rods®, led by Jaesen Yerger, as their newest Pro Staff member! We recently received the great news and are looking forward to our future with our Pro Staff sponsors at American Tackle who announced our pro Staff Team membership just today! It was a “no brainer” choosing Jaesen Yerger for ATC’s newly formed Pro Staff team. Jaesen’s enthusiasm and expertise will play a pivotal role in showcasing a variety of rods built using American Tackle components. Jaesen’s company, Cajun Custom Rods®, has an unwavering standard when it comes to perfecting a rod for its customers. With a recently retooled web site, the process of choosing the components for your own custom rods has never been easier. Check out the IFP™ (Individual Fitting Process™) on the site. It’s fresh, innovative and forward thinking. Jaesen’s approach to building rods for others is simply stated, “I want those folks to have what I have … a better fishing rod for their hard earned money. I know folks like me want more ‘bang for their buck’ and I know how to make sure that happens.” Jaesen’s partners in this venture are his ...
CCR® Shipping Rules Again!
At Cajun Custom Rods®, not only do we build the best performance and custom fishing rods in the world, but we always go the extra mile when it comes to our customers and their satisfaction. This time, we’d like to show you a few reasons of just how we do this … from every meticulous step we take in building your custom fishing rod design to how we ship your rod. Recently, we coordinated with one of our Pro Staff Team to get a rod in that needed some TLC before the “heat” of the spring thaw, spawn, and tournament season kicks off. We had our Pro Staffer ship the rod back to us and here’s what arrived (see for yourself the damage): As you can see from the images above, the tube that the rod was shipped in withstood the poor handling of an “UNNAMED” shipping system. Aside from the fact that we ship with FEDEX (who does a fantastic job), we ship our rods in specially fabricated tubes that are designed for our custom fishing rods and that can withstand even the harshest of shipping (in this case … Holiday shipping) conditions to include, bending, warping, crunching, ...
Late Summer Fishing Report – 2011
There’s nothing like the late summer/early fall bite, especially when your out on the water with family or friends. This quick Cajun Custom Rods® fishing report is no exception with catches from as far north as Lake Of The Woods, Canada and just a bit south to lake Okoboji, Iowa. We’ll start off with a “monster” of an update from Jon Vroom and his family for their summer outing at lake Of The Woods, Canada. Jon worked on several custom fishing rods for his brothers and his dad for the trip and from the pics below, you’ll soon agree that the Vroom family certainly put those rods through their paces. Wow! Check out the size of those Northern Pickerel (aka Pike)! Jon’s two biggest each measured at 37 inches and Heather’s came in just under at 33 inches … not too shabby for a few custom spinning rod designs from Cajun Custom Rods®. Below are a few pictures taken while my oldest (Tristan) and I spent a few days over the Labor Day weekend at Lake Okoboji, Iowa. We were targeting bass (both largemouth and smallmouth) but managed a few decent Northern Pike of our own; while fishing a handful ...
A Few Thoughts On “New Technology”
I am familiar with many manufacturer’s fishing rods and do not necessarily agree with their philosophy regarding “new technology” … that’s why we test new products (rod components) that manufacturers claim as “new technology” extensively here at Cajun Custom Rods®. For instance, their are multiple manufacturers that claimed the micro guide was the “next best thing” when it came to enhancing performance rods … but I had no knowledge or experience with such guides (save single foot fly guides). So, in good Cajun Custom Rods® fashion, we purchased several varieties of micro guides from different manufacturers to see for ourselves. Initially we duplicated a few rods to meet current manufacturer/industry specifications of micro guide rods (i.e., the rods they were mass producing for retail sales) and soon discovered that they had incorporated several fundamental flaws in their designs, not to mention manufacture irregularities or shortfalls in the actual micro guide design themselves. For instance, one company had too few micro guides on their rod whereas another had an excess of micro guides (yep, we learned that too many guides actually detract from rod performance) … both demonstrating their complete lack of “rod-guide tuning” for optimum casting and fish landing performance. ...
Three Mile Lake, Iowa (July 3, 2011)
A few of us from Cajun Custom Rods® headed down the road, east this time to Three Mile Lake in Iowa … just east of the city of Creston. We’ve not fished too many of the reservoirs or lakes in Iowa, so with the day off and decent weather predicted, decided to load the boat and give it a try. It takes about 2.5 hours to drive with the boat from Omaha to Three Mile Lake and we arrived about noon at the ramp. After rigging out our custom fishing rods, we dropped in and headed toward the dam – expecting the water to be a little cooler and deeper … draw the fish up with some crankbait action. When we got to the dam, the average depth 20-25 yards from the rocks was only 7-10 feet, but we decided to give it a shot anyway. Tristan threw an alewife color KVD squarebill crankbait (1-3 feet) and I threw a sexy sunfish colored KVD squarebill (1-3 feet). We picked up a few smaller bass in the 11-14 inch size, but nothing to brag about to mom. So we picked up and headed back into the timber to try our luck ...
Elwood Reservoir Fishing Report #2, Nebraska (July 2, 2011)
On our second day of the Cajun Custom Rods® fishing road trip in Western Nebraska, we had planned to begin heading back towards Omaha, Nebraska. We slept in (because we had fished until late the previous night) and over breakfast, discussed what where we’d like to fish for the day. Conditions were vastly different as compared to the previous day on Elwood Reservoir with winds 5-20 knots (varied for certain), overcast and cooler with air temps around 65 degrees. We decided to head back to Elwood and see how the bite was for the lake … and if not as good, head on east down I-80 and try a few of the lakes we investigated the day prior (War Axe, Union Pacific, Blue Hole, Sandy Channel, Windmill, Bassway Strip, Cheyenne, and Mormon Island). As soon as we arrived at the boat ramp, the skies opened up. We stayed in the truck for about an hour until the heavy rain had passed and then began rigging out … readying for the day of fishing. Since we were successful on crankbaits the previous day, we opted to start out with the same set up for our custom fishing rods on this day: ...
Elwood Reservoir Fishing Report, Nebraska (July 1, 2011)
We headed out for a few days out in West Nebraska to do some fishing and spend some time together (and to try out a few new Cajun Custom Rod® prototypes we’ve been working) … nothing like a good road trip coupled with the adventures of fishing new lakes and the excitement that goes with the two! We headed down I-80 West on the morning of 2 July and didn’t stop until Lexington, Nebraska. Along the way we checked out a few of the Nebraska I-80 Lakes for reference . We wanted to fish them as we worked our way back east on I-80 on the 3rd and were in no hurry, so we drove in and checked out the following lakes along the I-80 corridor of lakes: War Axe, Union Pacific, Blue Hole, Sandy Channel, Windmill, Bassway Strip, Cheyenne, and Mormon Island. Honestly, all looked fantastic and several had either improved ramps or concrete ramps to drop a boat in … but we ultimately decided to keep pushing west and then fish a few of the lakes on our way home. From Omaha to Lexington takes about 3 hrs, but after all the stops it took us closer to ...