All-new Physyx Minnow Shakers - built to shake what you've got
by St. Croix Rods 1 Sep 2024 09:16 PDT
Physyx Minnow Shakers © St. Croix Rods
Whether you use forward-facing sonar or old-school intuition to locate bass, shaking a Damiki rig or similar jig-and-plastic-minnow combination is a deadly way to catch them.
We don't care what electronics you have on your boat... or if you have a boat at all. What we care about here in Park Falls, Wisconsin is providing you with the technique-optimized rods that give you the upper hand. And when it comes to shaking a minnow, there's no finer tool available than these three all-new PHYSYX spinning rods.
The Minnow Shaker lineup
The Ninja in the group is PHXS63MLXF, a 6'3" medium-light power, extra fast spinning rod rated for 6 to 20-pound line and 1/16 to 3/8-ounce lures. This is the close-to-medium range rod in the series optimized for incredibly accurate pitches with lighter, smaller-profile jig-and-plastic combinations.
It's slightly more powerful twin - the PHXS63MXF - is a sniper. It retains the agile 6'3" length and highly accurate extra-fast tip but steps up the power to medium in order to handle jighead-minnow rigs up to half an ounce.
The final specialist in the group is the new PHXS66MLF, an assassin that handles a wide range of ultra-popular jig-and-minnow weights between 1/8 and 3/8 ounce.
Why these rods are special
Aside from their technique-optimized lengths, powers, and actions, a variety of standout features make these rods excel in their intended purpose.
The first is the new TRIGON Carbon handles. There's a word for your body's ability to sense movement, action, and location; it's called proprioception, and the rear-trigger design coupled with the TRIGON handle shape and molded-in TPU grip lines give anglers additional physical reference points that their brains and muscles can use to execute pitches with increased and repeatable accuracy.
Another difference-maker is their SCIV+ hybrid carbon fiber blanks. The SCIV+ layups for each of these models are completely distinct. Our designers remove heavier SCIV material and replace it with lighter and stiffer SCVI material at key locations along the length of every blank to optimize both flex characteristics and balance to perfectly support intended techniques. Plus, our IPC tooling and TET blank layups allow us to create these fast and extra-fast tubular carbon actions without any glass inserts in the tips, which is the common practice in the industry. Our design and manufacturing capacity to accomplish this is a really big deal because a transition to glass that can give a rod a really fast tip also comes at a cost... because it creates both a weak spot and a dead spot in the blank.
Combine those exotic, one-off hybrid-carbon tubular blank designs with titanium guide trains and the new molded carbon fiber TRIGON handles and new carbon fiber reel seats which transmit energy like no other St. Croix handle design before, and you end up with rods that really do feel like an extension of your own body.
Time to get shakin'
So go ahead and get shakin'. All-new PHYSYX Minnow Shakers are in-stock and available right now.
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