Both are doing fantastic!!! Real nice looking fish.
They're lighting up the yellow perch right now on the southern end of the lake. Mostly dock fishing with a lot of smalls to throw back.
I have and use both the pflueger president pressp20x (2 of them) & the diawa regal lt rglt1000d (3 of them).
If I were to choose 1 over the other it would be the diawa 1000. It's smoother, casts longer casts and has a better/stronger drag.
As others have stated St Croix are excellent rods. Myself I look at what a specific st croix rod is setup up (blank,eyes,reelseats/etc) and then compare what others are offering. This ul rod is actually setup with excellent hardware for the $$$.
https://www.basspro.com/shop/en/bass-pro-shops-panfish-elite-spinning-rodI use braided line on all my ul setups and quality eyes make a huge difference when casting 1/64th oz jigs when fishing for crappie.
WOW!!!
The only spinning reel I own that doesn't have a anti-reverse lever is the cheap spinning reel that came with the uglystick II combo.
All my pflueger, diawa & even a cheap Kastking centerion 500 all have the anti-reverse lever.
Good luck & good fishing.
I'm in Ohio and been kayak fishing for a couple years now. Like it enough that I sold my boats off.
The ability to pull up anywhere next to the water and put in is priceless.
Clean them by filleting them like you would any other fish. Make sure to get any "red" meat cut off of them. Try not to go too close when skinning them, there's a lot of oils in the meat next to the skin. Deep fry the fillets like you would any other fish/breading combo.
Take 2 cans of 7up and put them in a 1/2-gallon soup pan and bring the 7up to a boil. Cut the drum fillets into 1" pieces and cook them for +/- 5 minutes in the boiling 7up. The longer they cook the stiffer they get, cook them to the consistency you like. Pull them out and drain/drip dry and put them in melted butter (add a little garlic also optional). This is poor man's lobster and is downright tasty!!!!
Make a simple brine with 1gal water, 1.5cups salt & 1.5cups sugar. Soak the drum fillets in the brine for a couple hours and then put them in the smoker and smoke them @ 220* for +/- 3 hours.
I use the casting bobbers and joe flies all the time in the fall for steelhead when the water is clear. An 8' ul setup has 8# braid and uses either 4# or 6# leaders.
I use 2 9' ugly stik GX2's medium action for catfish, freshwater drum (sheep head), late season steelhead & in general any type of fishing where I need to muscle the fish in. They are paired with 2 diawa rd 2500h-ab reels. Both rods are setup with 20# braid & there's no leader.
I went with #20 braid simply because I fish a lot of areas with debris/stump fields/sunken trees/ETC. The #20 test braid will snap before the rod or reel fails. The gx2 rod's max line rating is 20 #. Stepping up to30# or higher is extremely hard on the rod.
Reed the specs on the side of the rod, it will tell you the min/max line rtings.
Nice!!!
We use ul setups in NE Ohio to catch steelhead. Takes fishing to a whole new level.
I've had mixed results with the gulp minnow.
They do good in the spring with crappie, summer & fall not so much.
Yellow perch are hit and miss and I actually do better with crawlers.
Bluegill could care less about them unless I cut them into pieces and tip a jig with them.
For me it depends on the type of fishing that I'm doing.
Using 9' glass rods for catfish and drum it really doesn't matter if I use cheap or expensive braid. So I use cheap 20# braid and typically bottom fish with sinkers.
When using 5 different ul setups I try to use a little better braid. Simply because the better braids tend to cast the 1/64th OZ jigs further/more accurately. 4/6/8# 8 strand braid is more sensitive than the cheap counterparts.
The other consideration is the ul setups don't use a lot of line. A 600yd spool will easily fill all 5 ul reels with line to spare.
It's actually the trickle down affect.
Federal has been doing this to customers for years now. They hold onto the $$$ for a while and then cancel the order.
People like sportsman's warehouse get burned and are the real losers. Their money/order sat until it was canceled and then their customers get mad (understandably so) and give it to them on the other side.
Try doing construction!!! Been this way for the 30+ years I've owned my own business. You have to put so much $$$ down on an order. They promise you the moon and stars with on time deliveries and complete orders (instead of 50 windows of a 400-window order). Now I have to go to the customer and tell them that their remodel/business has to be down xxx weeks longer than expected. Got to the point that containers were set on jobsites and all the material had to delivered/on site before a project would get started.
Anyway, sorry this had to happen and test your relationship with a company that you've had a good repour with in the past.
Been using diawa 8x j-braid a couple seasons now. Extremely impressive!!!
Tried spider wire and never again.
Whatever braid you go with use a 8x braid, smoother & longer casts.