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MyFishFinder Tips and Techniques => Fishing Equipment => Topic started by: UPSTATE on Mar 08, 2005, 09:29 PM
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Mine by far is the ugly stick I have a 5 ft ugly stick ultra lite pro that i slam the trout with i love it i can beat the sh*t outa it and it takes the beatins that i give very well i even take it to lake george during the hard water and jig up lakers with it :o its a great rod in my eyes 8)
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My 5 weight sage DS2 fly rod. I have caught lots of dollies and rainbows on this rod..
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either my 5 foot ugly stick or my 9 foot noodle. 9 foot noodle would be my first pick I love that thing. a Small fish makes it feel awesome but it can handle a 25 # salmon to!!!!!
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5 foot Ugly Stik Lite, I don't know why guys have problems with them, I love mine.... ???
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quantumn micro-light 6'6" ul...got it 8 years ago, and just broke it last fall :-\ but i hear they came out with a new version, so i will be purchasing one pronto!!
i also like my 5 weight st croix flyrod. it just casts so well!
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Gloomis ultra light gl2,with my tica reel its the smothest and longest lastin trout rod i had so far im getting another this year.
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It depends on the situation. If fishing in a lake or larger river with lures, I prefer a medium light action graphite rod that has some flexibility to help keep hard surging trout hooked when using spinners, spoons, or cranks. In a lake with bait or jigs, I like the same length rod, 6'6", but with a stiffer action for added sensitivity and hooksets.
For bait fishing trout on a river, I prefer a 5'6" medium action graphite with a fairly stiff action for sensitivity and hookset backbone. You need stiffness to feel lighter bites and to set the hook into a large trout.
Tyler
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All of my trout rods and 4' to 5.5' ultralights, I have about 7 different ones. My favorite though has to be a 5' 6" Mitchell Zero Gravity rod. I just got a new Pfluguer reel (a $36 reel that I got on clearance over the winter) that I'm matching up with it this year.
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a 5'5" shakesphere microspin i love that thing
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9'6" St. Croix legend ultra. She's my baby. My buddy just got a nice sedge though ....casts like a dream. But my St. Croix is still better! ;D
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i use a 10' calico rod.
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my 5 foot ugly stick ultralight with shackphree 125 reel spooled with 4 pound test
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I have a $15 Shakespeare 5' 5" UL combo that I bought at Wal Mart 7 years ago and it's still one of my favorite rods overall. I've used it for everything from trout and panfish to pickeral and bass and it handled it all well. Yes, I know it's not a St. Croix, but it does the same thing (maybe not quite as well) at a fraction of the price.
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I agree 100% with the 5' ugly stick. I use it on streams and rivers in the summer and jig for lakers in the winter.
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i have a 6-6 microlite quantum, a 6-6 berkley tactic rod and a 6-6 quantum regal light and for me its a tough choice on which one is the better rod. i also own a 6 ft fenwick that i use very little but is a nice rod. the fenwick lists for more then the other 3 combine and im not really impressed with it.
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a 5'6" berkley lightning rod....love it, am I the only one with a lightning rod? It is light and has some backbone when needed, I have a shimano 100s reel with 8 lb power pro on it.
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a 5'6" berkley lightning rod....love it, am I the only one with a lightning rod? It is light and has some backbone when needed, I have a shimano 100s reel with 8 lb power pro on it.
I also have a one piece lightning rod- I love it for its light action and is the only rod that has made it through a few seasons with out any damage. I use a couple different reels, depending on what I am doing, but generally go with 4lb for stream trout!
Tight lines!
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Well havnt gotten to use it too too much yet but I got a 7ft HT super-ultralight with 4lb test, this spring and have landed a few trout off of it and well it is a blast, it looks long and odd Im sure to the people that watched me and my dad fish, but we were easily out catching them at leaste 5 to 1, there were days when we each would limit out and they would have caught maybe 1 fish. I have handled decent sized browns off of it too.
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Hard to beat the durability of the ugly stick ultralights...i'm sure their are better rods out there...but those can take a beating. I have a 5'', 5.5'' and the 6''.
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I have a 5' ugly stick lite that works awesome
Also have a 6' split bamboo 4wt, that my dad gave me, that is the best in the tight streams of NH