Ugly StikCarbon Spinning Fishing Rod

Nice pole I wood but it again

Paired the rod with an equally attractive and reliable Penn reel. With this combo, along with braid line, I caught 9 bass on its first outing. The rod is light and ever so sensitive. I have several Loomis rods; love them all. This new Ugly Stik has earned its way into their company. Could not be more pleased.

Perfect pole for any and everything, I use exclusively inshore saltwater fishing and have no complaints so far. Light af, super sensitive, good cast distance, just feels good in your hand and have a special pop to it when casting I haven't felt often with other poles. I have caught everything on this pole paired with a Diawa excelor 3000 reel.

I bought this as a finesse rod. Decent action and sensitivity but I can feel the difference in weight in my hand between this rod and my St.Croix. That being said it was less than half the cost of my St.Croix so I can’t complain.Update: so I lost this rod/reel overboard and recovered it a week later which was awesome. This is still a great spinning rod with one terrible negative. The hook keeper placement catches the line one me in about 1 in every 5 casts if I am not paying specific attention to when I release the line on the cast. For the love of all things holy why would you put this on the same side of the rod on a spinning setup? Put it on the backside at a minimum or on the blank between the grip and the butt!

As with all Ugly Stiks they can take a beating without failing, I will be getting another.

This rod has great sensitivity, flexibility and is very light weight and balance. It is responsibly priced and performs just as good as higher priced rods on the market. I would recommend it to anyone. Used it in Canada walleye fishing it was awesome very sensitive tip performed as well as my as my 150 to 200 dollar rods.

Very please with my purchase.

I have never cared for Ugly Stick. Heavy, unbalanced, felt cheap... but this one took me by surprise. First impressions are opposite to what I have listed. I paired it with a 2000 size reel and 6lb fluorocarbon line and it will cast a rapala F3 as far as my 4lb test ultralight does. I'm excited to get this thing to the river and get into some smallmouth as that's what I picked the 6'10" ML rod for finesse lures. I will update after a couple trips with it, but so far it's impressive.Update- Now that this rod has seen a couple dozen smallmouth, I have decided that I will probably get the 7'3 medium model for some bigger lures. This rod is awesome and a 12 inch smallmouth is a fun fight with it, but the medium light is not going to handle larger topwater lures as I expected, but a great finesse rod for sure.