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fishing rod

#1 Post by ROLAND » Sun Dec 19, 2010 3:24 am

Any of you guys have experience with the bass pro shops " pro qualifier xps" rod? It's a 70 million modulus rod so it should be pretty sensitive. Normally this rod sells for 140.00 bucks a pop, but it's on sale now for 99.95 I was actually going to buy a couple of bass pro's Bionic Blades, but these pro qualifiers are supposed to be a much better rod, and on sale they're only about 20 bucks more than the blade... Would like to get some feedback before I go out and invest in what to me is an expensive fishing rod... funny thing, I don't even like the taste of fish! ( unless it's mrs. pauls or something like that ).
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#2 Post by Bamby » Sun Dec 19, 2010 9:35 am

Roland unless you want to spend the money, have you considered Ugly Sticks? http://www.basspro.com/webapp/wcs/store ... rchResults I have them and for the price I just don't think they can be beat. You can check out reviews here: http://reviews.basspro.com/2010/303/sha ... eviews.htm on them. In another thread you mentioned you fish primarily for "pan fish" when you're out. You might also consider getting a ultra-light rod or two for the pan-fishing. I utilize ultra-lights for a lot of my fishing myself, it allows you to use less or no weight and still have a reasonable casting distance. Plus it's just plain a lot more fun catching pan-fish with them.
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#3 Post by lakerunner » Sun Dec 19, 2010 12:46 pm

Bamby wrote:Roland unless you want to spend the money, have you considered Ugly Sticks? http://www.basspro.com/webapp/wcs/store ... rchResults I have them and for the price I just don't think they can be beat. You can check out reviews here: http://reviews.basspro.com/2010/303/sha ... eviews.htm on them. In another thread you mentioned you fish primarily for "pan fish" when you're out. You might also consider getting a ultra-light rod or two for the pan-fishing. I utilize ultra-lights for a lot of my fishing myself, it allows you to use less or no weight and still have a reasonable casting distance. Plus it's just plain a lot more fun catching pan-fish with them.


I'm with Bamby, Ugly Sticks are great. We mostly troll so a high class rod is a waste of money. If your doing a lot of casting for bass, etc. then a sensitive Graphite is good.
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Re: fishing rod

#4 Post by ROLAND » Sun Dec 19, 2010 5:29 pm

lakerunner wrote:
Bamby wrote:Roland unless you want to spend the money, have you considered Ugly Sticks? http://www.basspro.com/webapp/wcs/store ... rchResults I have them and for the price I just don't think they can be beat. You can check out reviews here: http://reviews.basspro.com/2010/303/sha ... eviews.htm on them. In another thread you mentioned you fish primarily for "pan fish" when you're out. You might also consider getting a ultra-light rod or two for the pan-fishing. I utilize ultra-lights for a lot of my fishing myself, it allows you to use less or no weight and still have a reasonable casting distance. Plus it's just plain a lot more fun catching pan-fish with them.


I'm with Bamby, Ugly Sticks are great. We mostly troll so a high class rod is a waste of money. If your doing a lot of casting for bass, etc. then a sensitive Graphite is good.
Bamby / Lakerunner... thanks guys for the replies... I was kind of leaning that way as well... When I first started looking at rods, the ugly stick was at the very top of my list. Think what I'll do now is instead of getting 2 of the pro qualifiers in different actions, I'll get one in a MH for when I try my luck at bass, and then get a ugly stick in either a L or ML... The ugly stick is much much cheaper, but from what I've read you can pretty much pull a stump out of the lake without breaking the rod. Appreciate your help guys... thanks again.
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