Lamiglas Super Surf

[Mike P]

Originally Posted by hardbait

i dont own one but heard it was actually a better jigging stick and tough topwater stick. made you work to hard at topwater and after a couple hours you would be pretty beat. heard from a few owners but dont know from experience. but i am plannind on getting 1

Depends on where you're fishing. If you're throwing topwaters in the Canal, the current does a lot of the heavy lifting for you. All you have to do is noodle the tip to give the plug a little bounce.

It's still a moderate taper blank, when all is said and done.

[numbskull]

I got one wrapped spinning. Very powerful rod and seems to cast a wide range well 2-5 oz. Great fish fighting tool, but I prefer my 1205 conventional for plugging (I don't fish the canal much or well, however).

[bart]

i had last year's Super Surf and it was great until i snapped the thing in half during a cast. they re-designed the blank over the summer and Lami sent me a new rod a few weeks back. i've the fished the ditch with it 4 times since i got the new rod and had a few fish around 25 lbs jigging big shads. i've also caught fish around the same size throwing pencils at daybreak. i haven't caught a giant yet, but i think it would handle a big fish just fine. i think its a great all purpose rod that will get the job done in the canal as well as off the rocks, throwing monster eels and plugs....

[BatesBCheatin]

Thanks for all the helpful info. Much appreciated. This is not a cheap rod so thanks for helping with the homework.

[GonnaCatchABig1]

i loooove mine. (spinning) i've managed to do a little bit of everything with it. i've tossed as little an oz and as much as 8 with it. (4oz + half a pogie ) using braid, the sweet spot is 3-4. and it launches 2's pretty well. after 4 or 5ish, it starts giving way a little and you gotta take something off the cast. if you throw on a nice long shock leader how ever it loads much better in the 4-5 range. actually right now i have mono on it and its loading great at all ranges down to about 2. haven't gotten anything huge on it. but it handles nice with a fish on. and it can fight a rock like you wouldn't believe. i abuse the hell out of it. (like the rest of my gear) and so far no problems.

the only area it struggles is working pencil poppers. not soft enough. other than that, it does everything good. not great but good. while friends have a couple different rods for different things. i can just use this for everything.

i've never fished the canal though, so i have no idea how it would hold up in there.

[BatesBCheatin]

Thanks guys... Picking up the rod tonight.

[BatesBCheatin]

Well I tested out this rod for 5 hours and I got to say... It is much stiffer that I thought. Was a bit difficult to load even a 3oz bottle. 2 and 1/2 oz darters...poor. In fact this rod to me seems more suited to a rating 4-8 instead of a 2-6.

As a jigging rod - No problem bouncing with 12" Sluggos with 5oz heads. If fact, this is a much better heavy jigging stick than a plug rod. Seems that if there was a sweet spot it would be 4oz or so IMO. 2oz is much too light for this thing. Didn't get a chance to fight any good fish on it (wish I had used it yesterday), but I'm sure it can handle any striper out there. It's a powerful beast, but not what I'm looking for. Have to agree with Hardbait on this one. Back it goes and the search continues...

Should also mention that I was not overly impressed with the Fuji Concept Guide System as it seemed to bottleneck my casts, but that's possibly due to the probs I had with the blank... or not.

Someone at the canal said that this rod was much stiffer than their 1 Piece SSU. The one piece I originally looked at also seemed much less stiff. Not sure what to think of that.