PENN Fierce 6000

I'm a big fan of Ugly Stik Tiger rods for both kayak and the pier. I have a Battle 6000 on a 7' Tiger medium action rated for 20-50 that I love as an all around rod. It's currently spooled with 15# Big Game for trolling the beaches for kings.

For a standard rod ive found a bunch of shimano saragosa rods ive been selling them for $35 and i had 3 fixed up for me with the large eyes that works real well

15lb ande back country is my favorite for king, exept on my penn710, i like backcountry 8-10lb for that

I will most likely get ugly stick for this trip down and wait till I get down there and get some line from j&m

If your gonna wait on the line why don't you wait and look at the rods at J&M also? Just a thought.

John has Ugly Stiks at J&M, as well as the other good stuff---you can check it all out and compare side by side and not, maybe later, wish you'd made another choice. I'm one of the world's worst to buy cheap, then later wish I'd gone ahead and spent the little extra on better quality.

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I'm one of the world's worst to buy cheap, then later wish I'd gone ahead and spent the little extra on better quality.
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Me too. But, at least for me, Ugly Stik has been one of the rare exceptions to the rule. There is a reason they've been a best seller since 1976

that's my thoughts about an ugly stick also. Even if I decide to go with a better custom rod later for the PENN, I will still use the ugly stick on another setup. they maybe heavy but I've yet to have one fail on me on any of the setups that I've ever owned.

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that's my thoughts about an ugly stick also. Even if I decide to go with a better custom rod later for the PENN, I will still use the ugly stick on another setup. they maybe heavy but I've yet to have one fail on me on any of the setups that I've ever owned.
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same here, there are few rods that I will fish regularly that I haven't built, and my little ugly stick that I use for spanish is one of them

Does j&m carry 8ft ugly sticks cause the walmart up here only carries up to 7ft. They have berkley big game 8ft heavy action rod up here, but feels very cheaply made so I passed on it, and I'm going to wait and look for a rod while I'm down there to match up to my PENN.