I had ordered one back in June from Amazon that shipped but then got returned during the process somehow. I've been looking for a travel rod, I bought two others since this model got turned around during the shipping process. The first one was a Diplomat X 66UL, It's not what I would consider an UL compared to other JDM rods I haven't really fished this rod as the power of it doesn't make it much fun for smaller fish. The second one was a Daiwa Presso ST 53XUL-4, this one is fun with smaller fish, it's a nice rod, but the action is just slower than I would prefer, it's not what I'm used to fishing with.

I've read many times how much gillchaser like the Mass Beat so I placed another order for the rod. The rod showed up today, I spent about an hour fishing in my pond. Caught probably close to 25 bluegill/sunfish from 4 to 9.5 inches. probably 10 of them were around 7 inches. The bigger ones were a good bit of fun with the rod. The smaller ones you can feel on the rod just not as much fun. The action of the rod is what I'm looking for in a rod, if they made a travel rod in UL or XUL I'd order one in a minute. For the price of this rod, I think your getting an excellent value for the money.

I do have to say that my favorite rod for smaller fish is the Abu Garcia Carabus 602XUL, the action I like, lightweight, with good sensitivity. A one ounce weight will bend the rod tip 20.5 inches, so even a smaller fish can fool you into thinking it's bigger than it really is. I've caught a lot of fish I thought were going to be 7 inches or bigger only to get them to the boat and it be a 5 inch fish. I'm amazed at how much fun you can have catching dinks with that rod.