I bought three of the med action rods with the intention. If using them for walleye, salmon, striper, and med size catfish trolling. I affixed castking line counter reels and have played with them a little bit. Hoping to get on some larger fish and see how they hold up. I will be buying one more med, and likely 2-4 med/heavy for pulling boards. I would like to have seen metal reel seat ring with a locking ring squared off to torque tight.

I caught my first steelhead 52 years ago. Since then I have used dozens of rods searching for the perfect rod. some costing hundreds of dollars. Last year i purchased two 9' Ugly Stik Elite Salmon/steelhead rods. I was so impressed with the performance that this year I added two 10'6" rods and have decided to add a third. So this year I will be running plugs and all the rods on my boat will be Shakespeare.

I purchase this rod to go with my Shimano Tr100 casting reel. I use this combo to fight and land bull redfish in Galveston, Tx.

The graphite wrapping was showing in one section of the rod. How did it pass QC?