Not sure what length you're looking for but alot of guys love the Loomis HSR9000S for spinners. Super sensitive so you can feel the blade thump and retrieve at just the right speed.

 

Tried many, but the G.Loomis STR 1024 is my favorite rod for casting spinners for steelhead and silvers.
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What length are you looking for? And casting or spinning? There are lots of models in the G. Loomis line up that will work well but it all depends on what specifics you are after. Personally I like the IMX 1025 C. The magnum style taper really allows you to feel the thump of the spinner, but at 8'6" it may be slightly short for your liking so something along the lines of the IMX 1165-2C would be more well suited for the fisherman wanting a longer option. Hope this helps.

G.Loomis

 

Also depends what size spinners you plan to throw. I wouldnt want to throw a #2 with an 1165 just like I wouldnt want to throw a #5 with a 9000s.

 

A couple I've had good luck with from Lamiglas are the X 86 MTS
8' 6", 2-piece, lure weight range 1/4-5/8 ox; line weight recommended
8-17. action is Extra-Fast, with a Med-power rating, and a Magnum Taper.
This rod throws 4's, 5's, and 6's pretty well, and it feels light in the hand with a 3000 or 4000-sized spinning reel. It fishes plugs like Hot Shots, Warts, and Tapollys pretty well.


My favorite spinner rod for 3,4,and 5-sized spinners is the Lamiglas X 96 JS, which is a two-piece 9'6" rod, lure weight range is 1/4 to 3/4 ounce, line rating is 6-15 pound test, action is listed as "Fast" but I would beg to differ on that, power is Medium, this was developed by Jim Bradbury and Lamiglas for use with a VERY heavy float, for steelhead and spring chinook on 8 and 12 pound test line, respectively with 1/16 to 3/8 ounce jigs. This is as Bradbury himself told me, basically a 6-weight fly blank with a reinforced butt section. I am positive that this rod casts a Wart or Tadpolly another 10-12 feet farther than any shorter, Magnum Taper rod

I have NO idea why this is a called "fast" action; the blank has a HEAVY, thick tip section and the taper to the butt decreases sloooowly...I would never in any way call this "Fast" taper, nor fast action...I consider it a moderate action rod all the way.

I like the X96 for lure fishing because I can easily cast #2's on it on light line, but I typically use it with 12# or 15# mono, with Size 3, 4,or 5 spinners weighing .400 to .695 oz on it, and can land any fish I hook on it, from 3 to 29 pounds, even on thin, light mono. This rod has more power in the top and mid-section than it might appear, due to the sloooooow taper. Not super-sensitive, but my day is often force-loading casts and powering them forward, and the durability of the blank is excellent. I have been using these for 23 years and have gone through 4 of them. One met a nasty big-leaf maple tree, the other got into a fight with my car and lost badly. This rod design is the antithesis of most PNW rods designed for people who depend on the reel, and not the rod, to land their fish.

This is a rod that is designed to fight fish **with the rod**, in a more Great Lakes style, where you move the rod position and attitude a lot during the fight, and do not depend only on the fish to take drag from the reel. You can pull incredibly HARD on this rod and apply a lot of pressure, yet not rip out a #4 treble. You can snub a 20 pound springer on #15 mono, and turn him by clamping down on the spool a bit and realllllllly laying the wood to the fish--and not rip out a fine-wire hook. I want a spinner rod that has tremendous shock-absorbing capability, and which bends a LOT, and applies the force of a long length of blank to the line, and that is incredibly forgiving of surges or angler blunders. For me--this is the rod I prefer. Yes, the tip is heavy, AND it is thicker than most steelhead rods in 64ths of an inch at the tip guide...that's all by design. I've made a couple butt-cap weights to add more weight when I get tired. I seldom use them.

I feel that the thick tip, slow taper, and moderate action add distance, and make it easier to make long casts with lighter spinners than on most shorter, faster-action, thinner-tipped spinning rods. This is not a drift rod. This rod was built to take the abuse of casting that honking, solid plastic Bradbury Jig Bobber of the late 1980's/early 1990's.

I have a G Loomis HSR 1021, an 8'6" mag taper spin rod...I am so sorry I bought it...it's just not what I want as a spinner rod. I "get" why people like this type of rod, but it's not for me. I want to fish monofilament, and I want a LOT more flex in the rod when a fish is on, so I vastly prefer a slooooower taper rod. With 30-35 pound superline, this is a powerful salmon rod, good for thick hooks.

I want a rod that has a slight bit of droop to the tip section in heavy water, and I want a rod that will flex well down past the ferrule with even light pressure on a smaller hooked fish. I want to slooooow decrease in diameter from tip to lower 1/3--this is typical of rods that span a lot of line weights, like 8-20, or 6-15; blanks built like this are not that common.

 

I have used an STR1025C for steelhead spinners and spoons for 20+ years now. Works for me.

 

What is Lamiglass's warranty like? A gust of wind snapped my new E series Loomis in the door of my truck. I was sick to my stomach praying on the drive home I could get the show special on its replacement. The store told me to call Loomis. My fault completely and yet for $75, I had a new one in two days and a shipping label to send the broken one back.

I'm new and have both brands and like them both, but that won't be the only rod I break.