Thread: an interesting comment.....

i was watching infisherman tv show this morning. i like watching that show cause they usually do about three segements a show and usually one of em deals with our kind of fishing. today he was fishing small streams for channel cats. this guy knows his stuff and he catches a lot of fish, no matter what he fishes for. he was going over his equipment and made a comment i already know, but figgered id pass it along to those that dont . he was using a ugly stick lite fishing rod and he said it was the best catfishing rod ever made....... amen brother.. amen

They are one of his sponsors. He has to say that at least once per show.

A man with that kind of influence in the fishing world could have whatever sponsor he chose.Usually fishing sponsorships come when a man wins lots of events or catches a prize fish on so and so's lure or rod.I bet the chicken came before the egg.

hey, if he reccomended em and dint even have a sponsor id load my boat with em based on watching him catch fish from week to week. shakespeare dint show up as one of his sponsors for this particular show when the credits run

Go Rango!!

I went into a local pawnshop yesterday looking at their rods & reels. Most of what they had was overpriced junk but they had 3 matching 6' heavy action ugly sticks with Ambassedeur 5000 reels, $60 each. Was this a good deal? Sometimes you can talk him down a little, especially with summer over & if you bought all three. I got a Berkley Lightning Rod & Shimano Spirex reel for $20 last winter. Rod still had the green sticker from BPS on the handle, reel was in good shape too. Hate to take advantage of someone's misfortunes, a man must have really been down on his luck to pawn his ugly sticks.

ITs a Guy In Columbia & Posts over on the BOC Board that sells Uglys , I got a great deal from him on my Catfish rods & reels,, 30-35 bucks for set I THINK, anybody wants his number give me a PM,,,,, he also has Crappie rod Uglys too & the Phluger reel that is so nice , lil open face , very very smooth reel, I gonna switch all my Tourney reels with em this year !! Darn SMOOTH Drag !!! never freezes up !!

Originally Posted by hawkman

I went into a local pawnshop yesterday looking at their rods & reels. Most of what they had was overpriced junk but they had 3 matching 6' heavy action ugly sticks with Ambassedeur 5000 reels, $60 each. Was this a good deal? Sometimes you can talk him down a little, especially with summer over & if you bought all three. I got a Berkley Lightning Rod & Shimano Spirex reel for $20 last winter. Rod still had the green sticker from BPS on the handle, reel was in good shape too. Hate to take advantage of someone's misfortunes, a man must have really been down on his luck to pawn his ugly sticks.

if they was used rods and reels, its not a good deal, not if they was 5000 reels. a new 5000 usually runs in the mid to late 30's new, depending on where you get em and new uglies, with the foam handles run a little less than 30 bucks. sounds to me like hes priced em based on new prices. if they new, you may be saving a couple dollars each, but not much, but if they are used, hes got em overpriced. hawk, you aint taking advantage of someones misfortune. if anybodys doing that its the pawn shop, but thats his job.

Thanks rango, I don't need them anyway, don't do much catfishing or striper fishing. I have noticed he is pretty high on things, thought the deal I got on the Lightnin Rod & Shimano reel wasn't too bad.

I am interested in the abu 5000-7000. More so the 6000-6500. They will ruin a good ugly stick. You need to get rid of all of them. I will use them for parts in my repair shop. PM me if you got some you want to get rid of. It will make a marker improvement on those ugly sticks.