Fighting Hard

Fighting these gladiators is no child’s play. It certainly is like working out at the gym. We had a field tester who had to be motivated to give it a few more pumps (and to hang on for one more minute) before giving up. Lactic acid burn is real. Anyway, we have seen this before and we have had anglers actually gave up half way through battle (even threatening to let go of the rod if someone does not take over the torture).

Back to the fight, the Ultracast 3 performed well during the fights. Being built on a 24 ton graphite blank gives it good the ability to absorb some shock from the runs of the fish before the power of the rod’s “almighty” backbone kicks in. This absorption goes in favour of the angler taking away or rather easing some of the pressure from the angler while adding pressure and resistance on the fish.

When the backbone power truly kicks in at about 65% to 70% of the rod (measured from butt), both angler and fish feels the building pressure. The harder the fish runs, the more pressure both fish and angler feels. The gladiators here can certainly exert plenty of power and all the angler has to do is to hold on to dear life and allow the backbone of the Ultracast 3 rod to manage the fight.

Most battles lasted within 8 minutes to about 15 minutes before these gladiators were landed. The Abu Garcia Ultracast 3 rod certainly fought well. It managed to turn away fishes from the danger areas (waterwheel) and it has plenty of backbone power that is consistent. It could certainly handle a lot more harder and tougher fights but if it can manage the gladiators here, it will most certainly be able to handle the gladiators that is was built to handle.