i had just bought my kayak. i had a 6 foot Loomis i bought back in the day, and a few reels i pulled from my friend's junk box. i put one reel on the loomis and went fishing. i got a dink but i was hooked. i went to buy another rod. i wanted something longer so i could work a fish around the nose of my 12 foot kayak. the store dude showed me a Dobyns Fury 703 and i bought it and put on my other freebie reel. the Fury was comfortable and it punched way above it's price point. i quickly learned that fishing a lightly weighted tex-rig or weightless Senko was my jam...and the 703 performed flawlessly. i bought another one.
it is not bragging when i said i hit my stride and i started catching fish. the 703 is the undisputed numbers rod in my arsenal. mostly because it was almost always in my hands. but i broke a few. on hooksets. the Dobyns replacement policy was easy thru my local shop, so i got replacements. i just came from my garage. i am down to two Dobyns Fury rods. a 703 and a 733. i have since quit replacing them when they break. i love the rods, and i UNDERSTAND rod breakage is a part of life. kayak life is not a gentle life for a rod. i bought two for my brother.
i am moving on, but i will never forget them. they were the rods that i went to when i rekindled my love for fishing, and found a new addiction in kayak-fishing. i am way more gentle with the last two. just last week, the 733 had the weightless senko and it was the star of the day. i crushed them.
The Fury 733 was my first Dobyns rod. I won it in a contest right here on UB back in 2015 or 2016.
I have thrown so many different baits on that rod and it has handled them all flawlessly. Definitely fishes above it's price point!
I remember being a little leary of throwing a weightless Senko with it but first time out I cast that thing a country mile. It was my go-to rod for that technique for a long while.
Thanks. I needed a little walk down memory lane today.
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