
Brad Dong wanted a light weight rod that would be stable enough and strong enough to fight some larger game. He choose the Rainshadow RCLB70ML RX6. This is a 7', 20-40# blank . Brad had us spiral wrap the rod and give it a woven graphite fore grip for added sensitivity. We took our boat Alibi II for a rod test. The large humbolt squid were biting off the deep canyon waters of Monterey Bay. Brad dropped a large squid jig down to around 800 ft. After a few jigs he was hooked up. He had quite a fight but easily won the battle. After landing the large squid, Brad praised the stability the spiral wrap gave his new rod.
"A custom rod fitted to me sure made landing a quality fish much easier. Thirty plus pounds of Humboldt squid hauled up from 650 feet of water. No sweat!" Brad Dong
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Letter received from the customer Steve Troop
Steve Throop and Family
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Email received from customer Bill Herbner in Oregon
Morning Cheryl,

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Email and Photos received from Mike Johnson
Cheryl,
"That was a real treat to fight a fish on that rod! Look at that bend!"
Mike

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Note sent from Amanda Johns
Cheryl,
I thanked my dad so many times for the rod that I lost count, but didn't feel it was fair to leave you out. I just wanted to let you know that I think you did a fantastic job designing the rod for me. I put the Abu reel on it just to see how it looked, and while it will do the trick for the time being it wont last for long. I plan on doing the rod justice - it will be getting a pretty red reel, (made by Avet I believe ) any day now. I think its beautiful - and the pink is SO me. :) Thanks again, and lets all hope that it brings good luck when I go out on the water!
Sincerely,
Amanda


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From Tim Obert, Commercial Fisherman and customer
this is a really late report but its mostly a
thank you anyways!! to dave and cheryl from alibi custom rods! i won a gift
certificate in a grady white tournament back in june they donated the prize and
man i cant say enough about the quality of work they do ! ive owned
lami,loomises,calstars, and they dont hold a finger to how to the beauty and
feel of these rods!! the first day i had this rod i went and live bait striper
fished off my boat here in santa cruz, i nailed 3 stripers to 16lbs that nite!
then the next day i took it tuna fishing and that really broke it in! i got 6
tuna on fish traps! biggest was 27lbs!! alot of rods look nice but theres fish
nice too!! thanks again guys for building a great rod!! p.s were still on for
halis one of these days!
p.p.s and later i will give a report from today...
Tim Obert
