Salmon Fishing Rod | St Croix Wild River-Avid-Triump-Legend Elite

When it comes to a salmon fishing rod, individuality is key to your selection. St Croix has 3 different models/series to meet your specific needs to catching salmon. Whether you want to catch them in the ocean, great lakes, or streams you will find the power and sensitivity you require.

What I am beginning to see a lot when we are out fishing for salmon is that longer rods are the norm. Back in the 80's most of us used a 8'6" rod, but now many of us have started using 10'+ rods. One of the biggest reasons I switched is, "I get tennis elbow when I am wrestling big salmon and going with a longer salmon fishing rod helps take the pressure off my elbow.

There is no doubt if you land a big salmon with the standard rods and then get lucky enough to land another big salmon using something like the St Croix WS106MMF2 10'6" salmon rod, you'll feel the difference and never go back. The ease, the sensitivity, the feel, the power........it just makes sense to purchase your next salmon fishing rod from a company that still builds them in the US.

Follow along as we take you through the full lineup of salmon fishing rod by St Croix.

Salmon Fishing Rod

Triump Series (casting and spinning)

Wild River Salmon (casting and spinning)

Legend Elite (casting and spinning)

Avid Series

You have 6 options in this class from 8'6" to 9' and the beauty is these rods are the cheapest you will read below running $100. Chose from 4 different spinning rods and 2 different casting rods. This rod uses the same premium SCII graphite as the other rods to give you great strength, sensitivity and powerful hook sets. They use aluminum oxide guides, Fuji reel seat and premium cork handles. They use two coats of Flex coat with a slow cure to protect the rod. This salmon fishing rod comes with a 5 year warranty.

The Wild River Series was exclusively designed for salmon and steelhead fisherman. The Wild River uses a premium graphine, Baston guides, Fuji reel set, premium cork handles, and two coats of flex coat to cure the finish slowly. This gives the Wild River Series outstanding strength, sensitivity and powerful hook sets. This rod comes with a 5 year warranty. The prices for these rods are very reasonably priced compared to the others.

Just to give you an idea here are all their spinning models and suggested retail price. If you shop right, you can pick up these salmon fishing rods a lot cheaper.

As I mentioned these are only their spinning series. The casting rods start at 8' and end at 10'6". You can get them from medium light, to extra heavy.

The Legend Elite series combines the best graphites, the best guides, the best reel sets and everything else you can imagine to make it one of the lightest and strongest and most sensitive salmon rod on the market. They use both the IPC and ART techology which they patented.

These rods ROCK. With all these features expect to pay in the $380+ range. Trust me, once you try one, you'll never want to pick up your rod again.

This rod combines the IPC & ART technology to give you 19 different salmon fishing options in sizes from 8'6" to 9'6" and you can chose between spinning and casting rods. The rod I used was the LES96MHF2.

These rods use the same graphite, guides, etc as the Wild River series. The big difference is they use their patented integrated Poly Curve technology that gives this salmon fishing rod the feeling of picking up a feather. These rods are extremly light, super sensitive and a ton of strength. These rods come with a limited lifetime warranty.

These outlets carry salmon fishing rods by St Croix: Tackle Ddirect, Cabela's, Bass Pro and Amazon to name a few. Be sure to check with your local shops because they probably carry these salmon rods and many others. Make sure and place a reel on your rod to get maximum feel before you purchase your next salmon rod. It's also a good idea to compare all the other rods with a reel as well.

Salmon Fishing Rod by St Croix

St Croix Fishing Rods