Dave, I think you could use a cane pole and still land huge cats all day long. Skill, kwnolodge and equipment selection, proper use thereof is what makes it happen. Your equipment reviews are good as gold and spot on every time, keep em coming!
Exactly why ugly stik is king. You said it yourself just a damn workhorse. Every single catsfish pole I have I spray paint the ends white. About a foot to 16 inches down.
Although I do not own any MadCatz rods. I do have the Berkley Big Game and Uglysticks. I haven’t found a reason to change them. They have always worked for me. Thanks for the review. Greatly enjoyed the video. Thanks Dave!
Great video and I learned a lot. TBH, I swapped out all my expensive rods that I didn't like and put the Berkeley Big Game rods in their place at $25 each and I swear they are better rods and I haven't lost a fish all summer with them. While I haven't caught monsters I have caught a lot in the 20's and 30's with no problems. Hopefully will catch some bigger ones this week on Watts Barr.
Hey. Great video. I never want to take the time to learn about the action o fishing rods. You didn't go into great depth about it, but how you explained it made a lot of sense and was interesting. Great video. Definitely learned something. Thanks
I haven't even made it to the end of the video, but I'm commenting. That rod seems to be a good fit for the size you are targeting. Enough give and take with the set up you've got. Around a 40 lb class fish. Plenty good
Blank, guides, handle; each very important, in a technical way, to the overall performance! Excellent technical explanation. Thank you. and PS. Yes, Ugly Stik Bigwater are good choice for big fish. I run them in my boat for dipsey-diver Salmon trolling, with great results (very pleased to see they ditched the ceramic guide inserts, always failing!).
Dave I fish with a lite action ugly stick for bate and a cased net and medium heavy for the big fish thanks again for the great information on those rods fish on from Illinois
I just switched all my rods to Mad Katz. I wanted hi vis rod due to a lot of night fishing and they look sexy. Customer service at MK is great. Don't know anything about US tho. The Ugly just didn't cover all the bases for me. I'm not catching the monsters you do either so I'm not flexing em to that extent. Just having a ton of fun
Been fishing The ugly stick rods for 30 plus years from ultra lite .to medium heavy.they are absolutely fantastic rods..own many others as well the ugly stick is supreme.. tiger Stick is great for grouper and snapper king mackerel.. just a work horse if a rod..well worth the money...
Spot on. I own ugly stick and mad Katz rods. The differences between the two are night and day. This says nothing bad against madkatz gear rods. It says these two rods may be used for personal preference snd different rod response for different fishing techniques. I do an awful lot of bank fishing where I live. I love the madkatz medium heavy rods for slinging heavy baits. I also like the action for fighting the fish. But this is where the rod differences come in...I have lost 4 big fish this year due to hook sets with circle hooks. I switched rod actions on my madkatz rods to medium and medium heavy. I still use uglystiks from time to time in the 10, 11, and 12ft medium heavy actions.
Lol the title tho but good video I was thinking today about catfish rods many rods that can pull a giant catfish in think most ppl that talk about catfish big ones don't speak on what's best rods to pull a big catfish that hugs the bottom don't wanna come off bottom.
I can use my Mickey Mouse rod around here. I went out on the creek Sunday, and I caught several blue cats. One was almost big enough to eat. A couple of 6 inch blue cats and a 3 inch blue cat. On a 5/0 hook!!!! Nothing on cut bait, not even a turtle. Every one I caught was on nightcrawlers.
Mad katz heavy action all the way. Good tip bend and a hellacious backbone. But I see what you're saying about suspended fishing. Idk. I'm pretty sold on my mad katz. You just made Matt knight lose sleep for 3 weeks lol. On a side note, please make a video listing some good bank spots on the Tennessee River so I can put my 12 year old son on some above average cats. We live in northeast GA on Lake Hartwell. Not having much luck here on anything above 5 lbs. It would be a 4 hour drive but worth it. Please Dave. Please
When I started watching you , you fished from the bank using 12' Okuma longitude rods . At that time I only had a 9' okuma longitude rod . Now I have 13 of them from 8' to 11' , had a 12' but didn't like it the distance between the butt end and the reel made it seem out of balance to me.
That mad katzz rod is probably hollow in the center and the ugly stik is not, at least until you get down towards the butt. The Ugly Stiks, no matter which one you get, have always been solid, the top half anyways, so, I don't know Dave, that may have something to do with it, like I said I don't know, I've never had any mad katzz rod, so I can't say much about them.
so...the way I look at it....if you know how to use the drag on your reel right you can use just about any setup to catch big fish..I myself have never caught anything by using a certain brand over another..I've caught just as many fish on my ugly stik as I have my 12ft okuma longitude and can't really tell that much difference..certain names and certain baits alone don't make the difference..if a fish is gonna bite it will or it won't
Hope all is well. Shakespeare makes 90% of the rod blanks available on the market to day lamiglas, penn, diawa list is large you are able to specify. How fast or slow the taper is on the blank and rod wall thickness depending on use catfish, sturgeon, tuna,marlin, whale just kidding about whale.
But can you tell if you even have a bite from a 3-5 lb blue? I have different brands all medium heavy. Some are like telephone poles n others not do much
Damn phone types what it wants. Picks up words from previous comments and inserts those words in later comments. It's a pisser. Sounds like ZZ TOP. There!
Hey Dave I don't know anything about the Mad Catz rugs but I use the 12 ft heavy action slime cat rods with pen 30 level wind reels and Meat Hunter 14 ft heavy action and I have a TLD real on one and a pen senator on the other and the heavy action meat Hunters seem like they have more give than the Slime cat rides the slime seem like they would break before they would bend but the Meat Hunter rides I really do like they've been but they also have a lot of backbone throughout the whole rod
