07-07-2014, 10:03 PM
After all the advice and research I went for a 7' Ugly Stik and love it. It's really solid but flexible too. I spent a fortune in lures and hardly caught a thing, I put weights in the line and threw out a big prawn on a hook and got a cod in about 10 minutes. Feel cheated 
I have ordered a Shimano Exage FD 4000 reel which comes with a spare reel so i can put flouro and fireline on separate reels and swap them out when necessary. Going trout fishing on wednesday and I'm sure my kit will work for that too.
I'm not fishing for shark so the rod shoukd be adequate, if it's too flexible I can always miss out a couple of rings at the end
Really happy with the Ugly Stik setup
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I have ordered a Shimano Exage FD 4000 reel which comes with a spare reel so i can put flouro and fireline on separate reels and swap them out when necessary. Going trout fishing on wednesday and I'm sure my kit will work for that too.
I'm not fishing for shark so the rod shoukd be adequate, if it's too flexible I can always miss out a couple of rings at the end
Really happy with the Ugly Stik setup
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