penn 2 extreme match rod

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carry on nursing · #1 Post by **carry on nursing** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 3:40 pm

A mate has offered me his penn extreme rod cheap. about £50 used 2 times.

Is this a good rod and is price good.

carry on nursing · #2 Post by **carry on nursing** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 7:48 am

come on someone has to have used or heard of this rod and can advice me if worth it.

help

#3 Post by **petekd** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 8:34 am

Click this link, its from our current master angler so he knows his stuff. There is a search facility on the forum by the way for you to check things like this out.

http://www.sea-angling-ireland.org/bull ... nn+extreme

#4 Post by **samo** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 3:30 pm

two of my mates have used these rods. they are good to start off with but what you will find is that they get sort very quick and loss some of there power for casting. but besides that they have good bit detection and are a good rod to get started with. i would say for €50 its a steal.

#5 Post by **m.b3** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 3:49 pm

agree with samo. the rod will soften on you but it's not always a bad thing! it has good 'all round' capabilaties and will help you get a bait out. i'd mainly use it for mixed ground, heavy seas or with a decent bait in a strong tide. can cast well and Neil mackellow said himself that 'it will help you keep up with the best of them' as regards its casting potentail. when i said it was a stiff through action rod i was somewhat mistaken. it has a through action kind of like a big powerful spinning rod! it's not a poker! not a pedigree rod but one that will do a good job of the above mentioned fishing scenarios. i've had it about 10 years n i am sick of the site of it now!! otherwise it's grand and has seen a few good fish. :D

50 is nothin!

#6 Post by **BigPhil** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 5:48 pm

my father has the fixed spool version and it has served its time well, everything from estuary flatfishing to mixed ground with clipped rigs and medium baits, it does him fine for general angling although a little over gunned for the scratchy stuff, and a little undergunned for rough ground, although it has seen this a time or two!!!