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Ugly Stick Ice Rods

harleyharry

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I have a brother in law with six boys who like to come to my place and go ice fishing. After many accidents with my good rods (Thorne Bros.), I decided to pick up some less expensive rods for the kids to use.

I picked up 8 Ugly Stick Pro Ice rods for 19.00 each, with the reels and line installed.

Two questions. How good are the Ugly Stick lite, and the Ultra Lite rods? And does anyone know what line the company puts on the reels? I fished with the Ultra Lite this weekend, and was impressed with the line. No memory in the line. Light weight, and the line sinks fast, even with light jigs. Caught a 20" eye on this rod and line combo, and seen no problem with the line.

Harry

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I don't have any answers for you ... but I have experience with Ugly Stick open water rods and if they are as indestructable as those, then they are a great choice for use by your brother in law's kids. Sounds like you were happy with there performance, so I would guess they would be also. If not then they should probably consider investing in their own rods.

Keep the Thorne Bros rods for your own personal use. At $60-70 a piece they are way too expensive and fragile to loan out to someone that may not appreciate it's quality and price.

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The line is Shakespeare Supreme line. It's a comparable performer, I don't have any bad things to say about it. I'm almost sure it's 4# test, I could be wrong as I might have an ice version of it too.

There's not much in sensitivity when it comes to an ugly stik for ice fishing. The regular ugly stik with the foam handle has more flex while the cork reel seat one has some graphite making it quite stiff. The pro combo comes in two models one's the standard and the other one is lite. The pro lite model comes with better reel and the rod feels a tad bit more stiff available in 24", 25", and 27". I believe the standard pro comes in 25", 26", and 30". In feel alone, they feel like all medium power regardless of whether they were rated ultrlight, light, or medium. To me seems like the tip action is the same in all of them. These rods are tough and can take a lot of punishment. I've got a couple of them and in fact the longer length will perform better. I personally use the 27" for toothy pikes and URL walleyes and it's got a baitcaster on it.

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I have personally used ugly stick ice rods(4 of them) since the early 90s and have no complaints.. I have used them on everything from sunnys,crappies,walleyes,and northerns..just had to have the right line and weight set ups to make the rod work right for each type of fish... I still carry them with me and use them on occasion ,, but for the last couple of years i have went to a specialized used rod system ,so i dont use them as much as i used to .. My last use of i was fishing slab crappies and was useing it as a dead stick.. a fish showed up high on the flasher so it was the bait in the closeest area to the fish so i reeled up to the fish and twiched the bait and let it sit and then a tap came .. set the hook and rod bent in half... 15 mins later out came a 29" walleye....these rods i used for everything untill i got myself set up for a rod for each type of fish or style of fishing i was doing at the time as i said above..

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It's unfortunate that they couldn't build these ugly sticks with in longer lengths of 32" or 36". I really like how they load with a big fish on. If I had to customize one, it would probably be like taking the top part of a two peice, but after the work, time, and cost put into it, I would just end up with a T.B rod.

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I think you will like them. I caught a 25lb muskie with a light, and alot of 2-3lb walleye on the UL pole. as soon as i can figure out how to get pic off my phone and on to the computer i will put them on. I will never buy any other ice fishing rod.

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