Offshore Tuna Marlin
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If Ugly Stiks are such great rods and popular with everyone, why is it...?
that you never see guys on TV shows using them? Like guys on offshore boats chasing tuna and marlin?
Ok... Doug Stange just used an Ugly Stik Lite with a Shakespeare line counter trolling reel on an episode of In-Fisherman.
Well, "great" has many different connotations and means different things for different people. If you are a weekend plunker and want a rod that is going to last forever and not break even when your grandkids step on it while getting into the boat, then the Ugly Stik is probably the greatest rod of all time. I've never, ever replaced an Ugly Stik rod, and one of my kids is so hard on gear he once trashed a brand new pair of hiking boots in ONE scoutcamp.
But no one is going to say that an Ugly Stik has the best casting characteristics, or that it is super-sensitive, or that the company even offers a product line for epic game fish like Marlin. Those big-game anglers have custom-made rods, purpose-built rods, and I'm sure that their equipment is great for that application. Even among freshwater sport anglers, I don't see many of them using Ugly Sticks. The hard-core guys won't touch them -- they don't have the senstitivy or finesse that a better rod has. Ugly Stiks are for kids and fairweather anglers who don't want to spend much and would ruin the more-spendy equipment anyway.
So yeah, the Ugly Stick is "great," but it's not "GREAT." You're comparing apples caught from the deep sea to oranges caught in a little fishpond.
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