deye223

Jewel 701 2-4kg

I am lucky my son has a 44ft cat and fishes outside, he keeps me in all the fish I need and they taste good also.

So just like snapper ......
Top fishing Dinodadog looks like you had a ball ......

Here is a mixed bag of fish like Snapper ,sweetlip, tuskies,  and pearlies taken about 8 ks off Double Island Point few weeks ago now. Weather was a bit windy but fishable. Used pillies and squid which they gobbled up pretty quickly so you had to be on your toes...

Decided to stretch the new knee out a bit this morning,went for a walk landbased. Soon found out it needs still more time and exercise to come good all together.Anyway picked up a few bass and a yella this morning and Luke and I got a few bass and a yella friday.
Dino

Jewel 701 2-4kg

Tilting the transducer up will make it lose bottom at low speeds.
Set the transducer with the spirit level like you did and then push the rear of the transducer down 1 click.
I would also set it as deep as it will go and then slowly lift it up until just before you start losing the image.

Yeah so have mine but mine cop a flogging ng and I must admit I could treat my gear a little better 😉
 
still I’ve had it a good 4 years and I’ve landed a few with it 

I've got the 5 to 8 kg 7' with a biomaster 5000 , I use it on snapper down here in Vic keep an eye on the guide frames even with washing after every trip mine went green ......

There are lots of videos on YouTube about "how tuff are Ugly stiks". and usually you can go up a line class or two from what is stated on the rod and you would have to be doing something pretty silly to break on as shown in those clips. As this is an old thread and the OP has already got his rods this is a bit of a moot point except for some additional info for those who may be looking at getting Ugly Stiks. I picked up two USB-JOH5637 80lb 5'6" Blue Water jigging over head rods on about August and was quite impressed with the power of these thinnish rods. I paired them up with a Makaira 30 with 150lb braid, tied the line to a tree and put it on full sunset drag and no issues there, should have been about 55lb drag at that setting.The only downside is that these two rods had cracked epoxy on the first large guide only  when I first got them, it was where the guides sat on the blank in between the two feet. Easy enough to fix but should not have had to with a new rod.
 
I contacted the seller only to be given a story on how they contacted the distributor and just have to wait for them to respond, (that was about 8-10 weeks ago), so not holding my breath on that one, either way I have fixed one by re-coating the epoxy and will just do the same with the other in case the seller is talking out of his bum and trying to fob me off, he did offer to get me to return it but I have time as that one is just a spare rod now anyway so not really worth the trouble. I also have been toying with the idea of stripping all the guides on it anyway and fitting them with a set of SiC ones, purely because I have some spare.
So overall as others have said the Ugly's can take a beating and do survive. 
There is a silly commercial that was released that is good for a laugh, but I would not recommend doing it to any rod to prove a point.
 

Gee i wish i lived up your way this sounds like a great day so post up a heap of pics and stories

Gee i wish i lived up your way this sounds like a great day so post up a heap of pics and stories

Gee i wish i lived up your way this sounds like a great day so post up a heap of pics and stories