for me personally I would love to have all the expensive fancy goodies...but it can be costly and when I think of how I would feel if I broke a very expensive rod....it seems harder to bring myself to buy one! HA!HA! (maybe one day when I become a pro! HA!HA!)
my husband and I both own ugly stiks , which are very forgiving to our abusive habits, but they can be tiresome. I have just bought a sealine X (and though I havent had much time to use it yet) itseemed to fair pretty well, and I have had many tell me they really like those rods. Thats my input!!
