Hagen Grubbs Fishing:
Posted on May 28, 2020
Every catfish angler wants the best rod holder for monster cats. But are all the catfishing rod holders out there built the same and offering what’s really needed for a monster cat? Our friends at Hagen Grubbs Fishing posted their opinion on the matter. They go over which brand they use, where to get them, and why they believe this is suitable for your monster cat catch. If you have experienced losing your rod holder with your pole because of a large catch, this video is for you.
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Oh
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that’s what we’ve been catching today no
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monsters but still out here having fun
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learning and we’re still catching fish
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that’s the main thing just not the ones
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right hey I’m out here dragging some
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baits for blue cats out here on
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Taylorsville light so far we’ve only
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caught small fish but I want to take a
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minute to tell you guys about the rod
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holders that I use I get a lot of
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questions about the rod holders that I
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use and I want to show you why I use
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this particular rod holder so let’s get
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right to it so one thing I want to
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mention and remember this is just my
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opinion never use a rod holder for
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catfishing that’s anything less than a
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half inch stem these big catfish hits so
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hard sometimes you can’t even get the
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rod out of the rod over the last thing
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you want to happen is that big one to
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bite and your rod holder rod and all go
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flying in the water with it but things
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right here you’re not going to break
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these off if you have a fish break this
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off and you’re probably not fishing
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fresh water so the rod holders I have on
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my boat they’re made by monster rod
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holders the ones I like the best there’s
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the 33 45 models and although he doesn’t
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advertise them as working in zero
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degrees I use them in zero degrees all
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the time when I’m anchor fishing I got
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my rods in the 45 degree angle most of
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the time 90% of time probably we’re
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gonna come out here in drift fish
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sometimes I put it in the 30 30 degrees
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sometimes I put it in the 45 especially
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pulling planer boards sometimes I’ll put
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one in the 33 and I’ll have the one
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beside of it in the 45 today the way we
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got our board spread out we run them all
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in 45
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so we’re fishing shallow water today but
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a lot of times if I’m in deeper water 20
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foot or deeper I’ll suspend a couple
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rods while I’m pulling planing boards
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and what I’ll actually do guys is put
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two rods in one rod over I put one in
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there it’s a 45 and I’ll put one in
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there and zero
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what I mean right so we got one rod in
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there at 45 degrees and like I said he
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doesn’t advertise them it’s working in a
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zero degree angle but if you put your
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rod straight in there oh you got a zero
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degree angle and I got two rods in
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Warner I doubt it I don’t know how you
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can really top that I wouldn’t recommend
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casting a rod out and putting it in the
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rod holder like this although I don’t
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think it would ever go anywhere but if
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your fish to strike down under the boat
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suspended the more pressure a fish puts
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on that rod the tighter is going to get
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in here there’s no chance of that coming
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out right there the guy that makes them
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Steve Douglas I’m sure a lot of you guys
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are familiar with him I’ve been watching
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him on YouTube since I was in high
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school I told him that he said it made
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him feel old but I guess he’s somebody
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I’ve always looked up to so when I got
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ready to buy some rod holders it was a
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no-brainer he’s a great guy does a lot
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for the sport of fishing so you can get
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these rod holders at monster rod holders
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calm or you can go to Amazon and you can
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get them on Amazon he’s got several
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different styles available other than
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the ones I use he actually just came out
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with a new rod Oder does 0:33 that is a
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real compact size so if you don’t like
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the bigger rod holders like this he
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offers some smaller compact ones now
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that’ll basically do the same thing if
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you don’t like this color this is the
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original color that the original monster
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colors but he does have several other
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colors available if you’re not a fan of
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the red and black he’s got a long list
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of products on his website
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other than rod holders here’s one of his
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rods right here you can see that they
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they this one’s dirty I’ve had it for
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years but you can see it’s it matches
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the rod holders got a little green in
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there but he’s got some really good
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stuff on his website other than the rod
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odors I’ll put a link in the description
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where you can get them at below if
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you’re in the market for some rod
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holders I really don’t see how you can
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top these in my opinion it’s the most
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versatile rod out there on the market
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the beggar
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that’s the nicest fish of the day you’re
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right there that’s not saying much
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it is the nicest one today I want to
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thank you guys for watching
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god bless you guys we’re gonna put this
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fish back in and get out of here
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we’ll see in the next video
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