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[WHARFRAT]

I had bought a 7' Bass Pro Micro lite rod for shooting docks back during the Spring Fishing Classic. I use the rod quite a bit, and does a pretty decent job shooting docks. It's light enough, but seems to have enough backbone to assist in shooting exactly where you aim. Anyway, a week ago, while shooting, it snapped off about 8" from the end. Bummer!

Went to Bass Pro in St. Charles last night, and they exchanged it, no questions asked.

[Seth]

I had the same rod and it snapped on me when I set the hook on a brush pile. My experience with BPS was the same. Took it in and they replaced it with the same model without any hassle.

[fishinwrench]

Those are nice rods for the $$. Love the blank and the handle, but not crazy about the high profile guides or I'd have a whole fleet of them.

[WHARFRAT]

yeah for under 50 bucks, it's a nice rod. One guy that sort of taught me hands on about dock shooting had a cabela's 7 footer. And it was really nice. Felt good, performed good. I checked the price on it, and it was right at 200 bucks!!!!! Hard for me to justify.

[Old plug]

I have had trouble with pro bas rods snapping.. I remember one time I had a 6 ft"er i was fishing with on a cold winter day and was driving a cast and it broke in. 4 pieces. Felt like a pistol went off in my hand. Snapping was one of the reasons I went to Ugly Stik. i have been using thee different Cherrywood H D rods this season that I really like. They were so cheap $25 bucks if one snaps I can by another. I will see. i do not connect price to quality or duability.

[MeatintheFreezer]

Ditto on the cherry wood rods. I found some at Academy last year for $5 each! I bought several of both spinning and casting. I can't complain at all about their performance, especially for the price.

[Sac River Jim]

i broke a 7 footer a couple years ago and replaced no questions asked. i was at the outlet store the other day and bought 2- 6'ultra lights, 1- 6' light action. 2- 7'6'' ultra lights and 1-pro tourney 9'6'' ultra light rod for 10 bucks a piece i figured some my friends might want one and i like to keep a few combos around to give to kids. they make an excellent starting outfit for a kid when its paired with the crappie max size10 and 20 reels and i picked up 6 of them for 10 bucks a piece too. anybody needs one get with me i'll sell a couple three of them for what i got in em.

[Sac River Jim]

your right old plug those cherry wood rods are a really good rod and better than the bps microlites as far as durability and the microlights are twice the price from over at the main store but for 10 bucks a piece at the outlet store the microlights are a pretty good buy.

[Sac River Jim]

in fact the same day they were putting out 250 rods and one the guys in my crappie club works there and he found me a johnny morris signature series elite 7'10'' mh spinning rod they had mispriced for 35.00 bucks. well i drug it home but im not sure what to do with it. i paired it up with that 40 dollar lews 10 bb size 30 reel and it made a nice set up for less than a hundred dollars spooled with 12lb flouro. i guess i can try it out working big shakey heads if you guys got any other ideas what application to use it for i'm up for suggestions

[WHARFRAT]

I agree with the cherrywood rods, for casting, but they want to wiggle on me when I load them up when shooting. I also have the same problem with the Lews rod that was designed for shooting docks. I went with this MicroLite and it has enough backbone when loading it up, that it doesn't wiggle from side to side.

Has anyone tried the Ugly stick GX2 rods. I got one this winter to try out. it's a 6 ft model, lite action.. When the mircrolite tip broke, I tried to shoot with this rod, didn't like it. Might have been because it was a foot shorter than what I'm used to. Seems like a nice rod. It was normally 39.95 on sale for 34.95, and with BPS classic promo going on I got if for 24.95 or 29.95 don't remember. Seems like a really nice rod. Just didn't care for it for dock shooting, but I don't think it was really intended for that.