Best boat rods and reels

[coalie]

Can anyone recomend a good brand of uptider and light boat rods to use with braid. Also what's the difference between a penn 525 mag and a 525 supermag?

[capnjack]

m favorite rod is an ugly stick 12lbclass with either n abu 6500 or 7000 reel they will tackle anything i also like to use a pike rod with a millionair reel

[brockster]

525 supermag is just the new model of the 525 mag

[coalie]

Thanks a lot for the advice the ugly stick rods look very good and are a bit cheaper than the others. On the shore reels is a 525 mag ok for distance casting or will the newer model get better distance. I normally pendulum cast with a century tip tornado with a fixed spool but would like the reel to do this as well as uptiding from time to time.

[brockster]

if you can still get a 525mag get one,
but going out of production,
try veals, or gerrys !

[fester]

Ugly Stick's are World renowned, and for the price are value for money, I have owned many over the years, and the Ugly Stick lite spin is a great rod! Highly recommended!

[cliffnorry]

Iuse Ron Thompson's uptiderods from Gerry's of Morcome, with a number of fixed spools, they are cheep and grate for casting from the boat, and I have tryed casting from the beach with them and they can get out a bit,

[capnjack]

ugly sticks used to be very expensive and withrollers right though but they then changed the eyes and made them cheper i also think that they are now loads better with a better feel for the fish does anybody rember the geof capes advert where he bent one tip to but saying that they were unbreakable ?

[scott]

I went out and purchased a Diawa SL30SH for my last boat trip,
perfect for uptiding.
the only thing i done wrong tho was to load it with 30lb dinabraid,
only to find out that dinabraid is cr*p!!!
Going to load it with 0.35mm line and see if it can cast.