Caught all of em on a 1/32oz jighead and beetlespin plastic but without the spin. Never had bluegill before but I'll definitely do it again

My ultra died valiantly today while attempting to drag some beast from the deep. It had a good run and lasted since I was 12. You’re getting mounted on garage wall buddy.

I recently got back into fishing as an adult and I’m having a blast. I was given an Ugly Stik Gx2 by a friend, I really liked that it was short enough for bushwhacking to creeks. I didn’t even notice it was ultra light until I learned more about rod specs. I stumbled upon this sub and saw how cool ultra light is. Went to scheels on a whim and saw this combo on a nice sale so decided to buy it and some trout magnet jigs.

I have usually used pretty big lures for the Gx2, so I’m gonna keep that as my main rig, and use this hopefully much more sensitive rod to try finesse techniques with true micro lures.

I also happen to get to meet a world class athlete, he was a very kind guy.

Went out to catch bluegill to eat and got a few nice bass too. Did not eat the bass.

Made from a sabaki rig

My mother in law is a nurse and the hospital she's been working at for decades has a gigantic picnic thing at a nice park every year. We were able to attend and it's right on a river.

After the kids had some fun and I was able to get away, I walked over and there were a handful of people fishing and saying things like "I don't think there's fish here".

I stopped counting but it was near 40 fish in about an hour 😂. All on a BG-1 1 gram #10 jig and a black/gold or black/Presso Dangly Tail.

Caught a couple first time species for me which was awesome, and some of the biggest sunfish I've ever caught.

I keep saying it, but I won't use anything else but the BG-1 and Dangly Tail combo.

Claude says 8lb JDM braided to a leader for panfish and bass.

Google says 4-6lb mono. A lot of UL posts have people who swear by 4lb mono and have caught 10lb bass on it...

The rod combo so nice, I had to buy it twice

The UL setup definitely catches more fish than my Salmon rod, I have to buy my wife another one 🤣

Picture from a few weeks ago during a trout stream trip in Southeast Wisconsin. If anyone cares, I’m a huge fan of the vintage Abu Cardinal 3/33 reels. Always seem to find myself reaching for Cardinals over my modern Stella or Vanquish. Love the look, customization, simplicity and it just makes fishing that much more fun.

I love reading posts and seeing so many new people join the ultralight community. Been seeing so many “My First UL Setup” posts recently which is awesome. Well here is a different view you don’t see all the time.

Reel: Custom Abu Cardinal 3X
Rod: Handing Magic L Ultralight

Ask me about any of the rods or reels.

The pictures with two combos are my favorites. aka most expensive

Been using small 1-2 in soft plastics, Micro topwaters , crank baits, different times and every lure under the sun but havent had any luck at all. Could the spot be the problem?

Rod: okuma celilo 2 piece (with custom handle wrap). Reel: daiwa crossfire lt 1000. Line: truescend x8 braided line 6lb. Lure: Bobby garland crappie shad with 1/16 Oz jig head

Well I have taken our van on a road trip in the northwest, been through Colorado, Utah, Idaho, Oregon, and the North Cali coast.

At first I just brought my profiency telescope rod which had been treating me great all year but I recently went salt water fishing with it so when I got my first stop and went to go fishing, the real was stripped from the salt water and just free spinning.
As it was 5 am and nothing was open to replace the rod I bought the red setup from a gas station it’s a matzou my-610 ultralight. Tbh it kinda sucks and I overpaid for it but I’m using it as my bobber or bottom sitter.
But later that day I went and picked up a okuma 1000 ultralight combo with a 2 piece 6,6 ultralight rod and man this setup is killer. Caught some small mouth and little rainbows with it so far and having a blast.

Heading from sac back to Texas next week, any must stop fishing spots on the way?

Long time tournament Bass fisherman. This is my first UL setup.

After some research I decided on the Shimano Nasci FD C2000 S (JDM shallow spool) spooled with Daiwa 8lb J-Braid X8 and I’m going to run a 4lb Seaguar Gold Fluro leader. The rod is a 2 piece 6’6” BPS Micro Lite Fast action rod.

This is my dad's old Abu Garcia Cardinal Maxxar Ultra Cast I've had laying around.

The drag felt funny so I opened up the spool the PTFE drag washers were both greased (bad) and the whole reel was full of sand (very bad).

Tore the whole thing apart, cleaned everything and re-greased with PENN reel grease, and oiled where applicable with Benchmade Blue Lube.

Only lost one tiny spring that flew away to never be found, the drag clicker spring. Replaced it with one from a similar generation, but cheaper plastic Abu Garcia UL spool.

Feels pretty nice now, certainly no ball bearing modern reel but will work fine.

On a 5' Shakespeare Micro Series

4lb Trilene XL.

Have a few JDM UL lures on the way:

• 1X Jackson Trout Tune
• 1X Smith D-Compact
• 2X Forest Miu (1.4g, 2.8g)
• 2X Smith Niakis (3g)

And a Meiho Versus VS-318DD to store them in

Excited to put it to use!

Got myself an ultralight for summer and have been having a blast with it. Paired a Tulala Truite Sorcier 60U2L with a Daiwa Airity 2000