Fun on the Super Ultra Light!

I purchased my SUL and XUL rods for the purpose of giving me a lot of fun with 5-6 inch bluegill......8-9 inch stocker trout. They have proved their worth for sure. Today I boated over 150 bluegill.....redbreast. The vast majority of the fish were 8-8.5 inches. They were chunky fish. I had a 14 inch bonus largemouth and several 12 inch crappie. Had some 8 inch shell cracker and quite a few mixed breed fish. I started out in the lake but there was not a bed to be found. Not sure when that is going to happen in the lake. So I pulled out and hit my trusty spot below the dam. Put the boat in spot lock and proceeded to catch fish almost every cast. Using the Banshee 6 foot super ultra light with the 2.3# test ester line was a whole lot of fun. I guess I could have pulled up to go look for some bigger fish.....maybe find some good shell cracker....but after driving 83 miles I wasn’t going to leave biting fish. Just a fantastic day. I used a Daiwa Gekkabijin 1.5 gram #8 hook dressed with a Sow Bug and Bison colored Trout Magnet. The wind is going to blow hard here the next few days. The next good weather day I’ll be out there again. Life is good!

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It's outing like that that spoil me.

Very nice. Congrats

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Nice! Thanks for sharing!

Sounds like a great day

You had a great day!

Nice.is there current below the damn?

Very nice. You hit the jack pot with the fish and the weather!

Great catch, it’s on up here, water is warming and fish are moving.

Nice fish - a Life is Good Day for sure.
Bob

very nice. A great day for sure

That looks like a blast. Those are beautiful fish and thank you very much for bringing us the pictures.

I've always been reluctant to even venture into ultralight, much less super ultralight! Just ordered my first ultralight rod last week and awaiting its arrival. Not JDM, but a Fenwick Elite Tech River Runner. Maybe I'll make it to JDM some day.

Very good job, congrats!!

great day on the water with that mixed bag and UL tackle! bet those big sunfish and the crappie were really a ball on that.

@Alphahawk, do you mind talking a little bit about your SUL /XUL set-ups? I have enjoyed UL fishing for many years and own several Pflueger Trion UL combos. Are the rods / reels that you use a lot more sensitive? Will they allow you to cast micro baits a lot further than a standard UL set-up? Thanks very much.

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@Alphahawk, do you mind talking a little bit about your SUL /XUL set-ups?

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He's been talking about them for years. :) Check out the JDM sticky threads at the top of the Bream forum.

Here's the rod thread that Alphahawk started:

https://www.crappie.com/crappie/panf...ating-panfish/

Awesome day Randy!


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Nice.is there current below the damn?

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Yes there is current there. Where I was fishing the current will alternate....going down stream then will come back upstream. It depends on how much water they let out at the dam. There is an island and a bend down river that causes this.

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Originally Posted by Pond_Pounder

@Alphahawk, do you mind talking a little bit about your SUL /XUL set-ups? I have enjoyed UL fishing for many years and own several Pflueger Trion UL combos. Are the rods / reels that you use a lot more sensitive? Will they allow you to cast micro baits a lot further than a standard UL set-up? Thanks very much.

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The rods I use are as sensitive as they come. The reels are very finely machined and smooth as silk. Since all my reels I use have very shallow spools I do gain a slight advantage of a few extra feet of casting distance. It is the rods that give one an advantage of detecting the bite. If you watch my videos you will notice I never set the hook. These rods have a much faster action than UL rods sold in the states.


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Originally Posted by Cricketcage

That looks like a blast. Those are beautiful fish and thank you very much for bringing us the pictures.

I've always been reluctant to even venture into ultralight, much less super ultralight! Just ordered my first ultralight rod last week and awaiting its arrival. Not JDM, but a Fenwick Elite Tech River Runner. Maybe I'll make it to JDM some day.

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I fished those rods years ago....had 4 of them and my son had 2. Great rods...at the time they were selling for 89 bucks....times have changed....LOL.

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If you watch my videos you will notice I never set the hook.

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I fish with light action rods, but use 2 lb. mono on them. Last week my old bass fishing habits crept back in (first time fishing this year) and I broke off the first two trout magnets with a hook set. I feel horrible that two big bluegill had to swim around with those in their mouth and hope they don't suffer long term. After that, no problem, I just reeled up and fish on. No real need to set a fine wire hook, but sometimes I get too excited. I ordered an ultralight rod when I got home hoping to soften things up a little bit.

Good job Randy. I love reading your posts on this place you go. Many years past, I had a few places to go to catch fish like that. Those memories keep me looking for another spot like them, keep me coming back.

Love reading more and more about ultralight setups . Great pics and info Alphahawk!!

It is amazing how long U/L tackle and finesse techniques were overlooked. Even today, on some sites you take a look at an U/L thread or article and you have to smile.

You had those fish cornered for sure! Pretty ones!