Should this have happened?

[soflabasser]

I have caught sharks in excess of 100 pounds on this +20 year old rod and bigger bass than most people have caught on $$$ rods...Have flipped several +5 pound fish of various species and the fishing rod has yet to show signs that it will break.Have used this same rod with big saltwater plugs and caught fish that absolutely outclass largemouth bass in every aspect of fighting ability.As far as line ,I use anywhere from 8 pound test to 30 pound test line on this rod.A expensive rod that can't take a beating is worth nothing to me,but a rod that can meet my high expectations is worth purchasing.

[J Francho]

What rod is it?  Sounds like the answer to the age old question, "Is there a rod that will do anything?"

[new2BC4bass]

1 hour ago, J Francho said:

What rod is it?  Sounds like the answer to the age old question, "Is there a rod that will do anything?"

Sounds like an Ugly Stick to me. 

[Big Bait Fishing]

On ‎10‎/‎5‎/‎2016 at 10:01 AM, soflabasser said:

I have caught sharks in excess of 100 pounds on this +20 year old rod and bigger bass than most people have caught on $$$ rods...Have flipped several +5 pound fish of various species and the fishing rod has yet to show signs that it will break.Have used this same rod with big saltwater plugs and caught fish that absolutely outclass largemouth bass in every aspect of fighting ability.As far as line ,I use anywhere from 8 pound test to 30 pound test line on this rod.A expensive rod that can't take a beating is worth nothing to me,but a rod that can meet my high expectations is worth purchasing.

what is the rod ???

[J Francho]

[WPCfishing]

I usually do something stupid to break a rod. Lews and Abu have been great about it. Tell Powel the truth. They should send you a new rod.

That's not enough weight or pressure to cause a well made blank to break like that. 

[soflabasser]

Is that the rod you used to land the bass in your avatar?

 

Those little barbie and spiderman rods have caught some big fish for people who know how to fish light tackle well. There's even a video on YouTube of someone using one of these tiny rods to catch a decent shark.

 

3 hours ago, J Francho said:

 

[Jeff H]

On 10/2/2016 at 1:24 PM, FrankN209 said:

I took it back to my local tackle shop and they replaced it. He told me it shouldn't have broke the way I picked up the fish. So I'm happy about that. I ended up going with an Okuma EVX. 

 

2 hours ago, WPCfishing said:

I usually do something stupid to break a rod. Lews and Abu have been great about it. Tell Powel the truth. They should send you a new rod.

That's not enough weight or pressure to cause a well made blank to break like that. 

Situation rectified 4 days ago....

[soflabasser]

3 hours ago, Big Bait Fishing said:

what is the rod ???

It's just a old,worn down Ugly rod that's proven itself to be reliable in landing 100's if not 1000's of fish for me in the past +2 decades. It has been stepped on several times,thrown on contrete floor,high sticked on BIG fish ,yet somehow hasn't broken yet.

[WPCfishing]

1 hour ago, Jeff H said:

 

Situation rectified 4 days ago....

Good shop owner.. 

[Jeff H]

3 minutes ago, WPCfishing said:

Good shop owner.. 

I agree!  Wish there were more like him. 

[Big Bait Fishing]

8 hours ago, soflabasser said:

Is that the rod you used to land the bass in your avatar?

 

Those little barbie and spiderman rods have caught some big fish for people who know how to fish light tackle well. There's even a video on YouTube of someone using one of these tiny rods to catch a decent shark.

 

 

i was in the Las Vegas BPS talking to some guy there and he told me about a woman who caught a 55 lb. striper on a pocket fisherman !!!

[soflabasser]

7 hours ago, Big Bait Fishing said:

i was in the Las Vegas BPS talking to some guy there and he told me about a woman who caught a 55 lb. striper on a pocket fisherman !!!

That's a impressive catch on a small fishing rod.Was she purposely fishing for striped bass?

[J Francho]

16 hours ago, soflabasser said:

Is that the rod you used to land the bass in your avatar?

 

Those little barbie and spiderman rods have caught some big fish for people who know how to fish light tackle well. There's even a video on YouTube of someone using one of these tiny rods to catch a decent shark.

I guess I've been doing it wrong all these years.

[Big Bait Fishing]

1 hour ago, soflabasser said:

That's a impressive catch on a small fishing rod.Was she purposely fishing for striped bass?

i don't know , i was by a pocket fisherman display , and i said out loud '' what could you catch with this thing '' and a another customer said that a woman using a pocket fisherman caught a 55 lb. striper at lake Mead on 10 lb. line , kind of crazy !!

[FrankN209]

20 hours ago, Big Bait Fishing said:

i don't know , i was by a pocket fisherman display , and i said out loud '' what could you catch with this thing '' and a another customer said that a woman using a pocket fisherman caught a 55 lb. striper at lake Mead on 10 lb. line , kind of crazy !!

I'm not saying it's not true, but for me, this would have to be I'd have to see it to believe it.