Thread: Palms Egueria Native Performance Rod

I continue to acquire rods that I hope will be fun with small fish , but be handle bigger fish when they show up.

Yesterday my 4’11” XUL Palms Egueria Native Performance Rod showed up on my front porch .
It took about eleven days and the package was in excellent shape this time . A good thing because the rod was just thrown into a box and taped closed . No packing at all .

This is another glass rod . I like glass rods for micro fishing.
It’s a beautiful rod finished in gloss black with a wood reel seat and nice cork . The wrappings on the rod are mostly silver thread except for a single gold wrap between two silver ones on the butt end of the rod .
The rod has a nice bend to it . I need to remember to try and snap picture of the bend next time out .
With the new glass of today , the rod is plenty sensitive enough for me to fish my .5g anf .8g micro jigs . I felt every nibble.

I was able to get away for about an hour and a half this mid morning and fish the docks at Lake Kedron . The water level there continues to drop , because of the heat and no rain.
Because of the drop in the water level , I was able to begin my fishing from the bank and had pretty good luck shooting under the docks on one side of the docks .
I caught about half of my fourteen fish shooting the docks .
11 gills , 2 bass, and one small crappie. I lost one even smaller .

The rod was paired with a Shimano Soare bb500spg loaded with my old favorite 2# P-line Floroclear. I spent a couple hours stripping braid off a few reels last night and this morning and spooling them with the 2# .
I’m back to my 2# line . I missed the distance and the sinking of the line and the fact that it isn’t affected by the wind as much . And NO more leaders .

No monsters were caught , gills were in the 4-6” range , a couple smaller . One bass was about three inches and the other maybe 7-8” .
All were fun on the new rod .
I think I prefer this rod over the Quattro. The extra four inches and the glass content makes a difference IMO . But , it is new and if I like a new rod , it becomes my new favorite until the new wears off or I get another new one .
Although I own a few 4’6” UL rods , I always seem to be missing the other 4-6” .
I can’t imagine owning one any shorter than 4’6” .