Megabass SSXX-72ML

[kakaryan]

Megabass SSXX-72ML

http://www.megabass.co.jp/site/products/ssxx-72ml/

Dose any mate have this rod? Would love to hear some opinion.

I ll be use it as a general purpose travel rod. Landbase, boatgame, eging, etc. It's 2pc and I love the slant bridge.

I guess this rod would be pretty well balanced becos of the heavy slant bridge? I ll be using Steez 2508 and Branzino 2508LBD.

Cheers.

[The Doctor]

Hey Ben, I have one but I have only had it for two months and fished with it a handful of times. Despite the lack of use so far, I can clearly see the design focus for this rod - to pick up short bites. It is an interesting rod - not only because of the unique slate bridge design but also due to the fact that it has a, for my personal standard, very soft tip (for picking up short bites obviously). Some say it is like the Daiwa megatop but I cannot verify that as I do not own a rod with this feature. I thought the tip is made of fiberglass at first but the tag comes with the rod clearly states that the content of the blank is 99% carbon, 1% resin. There is a review on the Daiwa Steez Megatop casting rod on TackleTour, which I am sure you do regularly visit. It kind of gives you an idea of the tip and its usefulness. For this rod, the soft tip quickly collapses under load and transitions into a very strong middle section.

Personally, being used to casting long and stiff shorecasting rods, I had to adjust my casting style while using this rod - overloading the tip has given me many wrap-ups close to the top section.

The rod is designed to use medium to fast moving lures. The soft tip certainly does not aid to the sensitivity. However what lacks in the feel is almost exaggerated by the tip - I remember rolling a lightly weighted paddle tail style soft plastic among rocks in about 3 metres of water in search for a saltwater barramundi when the tip of the SS suddenly dived down. I thought the lure was snagged so I started to reel in the lure to check, this is when I felt the weight and the distinctive head shake of a fish. There seems to be a momentary lag in term of the transmission of the impact, if that makes any sense to you (again, I think this feature serves well when it comes to picking up short bites while retrieving lure at a medium to high speed).

I don't think the rod will work heavy or high resistance lures very well due to, you guessed it, the soft tip.

To sum up, in my humble opinion, it is a special rod with a strong design focus.

And of course, being Megabass, it is well built. Although I have to say the anti-slippery black coating on the lock nuts on both side of the reel seat does not stay on very well. Same as the ones on the Shadow series.

Thanks to the slate bridge, the balancing is bang on when paired with a reel weights around 230 g to 250 g. Because of the weight of the slate bridge, they could maximise the effective length of the rod without sacrificing the balance. Mine matches beautifully with a Stella C3000HG spooled with Varivas Max Power Jigging PE #1 - the silver, gold and purple are all there.

PM me if you need any other information regarding the rod.

[kakaryan]

Thanks for the very detailed reply mate. Really helpful. Cheers.

[Kyle101]

Originally Posted by The Doctor

Hey Ben, I have one but I have only had it for two months and fished with it a handful of times. Despite the lack of use so far, I can clearly see the design focus for this rod - to pick up short bites. It is an interesting rod - not only because of the unique slate bridge design but also due to the fact that it has a, for my personal standard, very soft tip (for picking up short bites obviously). Some say it is like the Daiwa megatop but I cannot verify that as I do not own a rod with this feature. I thought the tip is made of fiberglass at first but the tag comes with the rod clearly states that the content of the blank is 99% carbon, 1% resin. There is a review on the Daiwa Steez Megatio casting rod on TackleTour, which I am sure you do regularly visits. It kind of gives you an idea of the tip and its usefulness. For this rod, the soft tip on rod quickly collapses under load and transitions into a very strong middle section.

Personally, being used to casting long and stiff shorecasting rods, I had to adjust my casting style while using this rod - overloading the tip has given me many wrap-ups close to the top section.

The rod is designed to use medium to fast moving lures. The soft tip certainly does not aid to the sensitivity. However what lacks in the feel is almost exaggerated by the tip - I remember rolling a lightly weighted paddle tail style soft plastic among rocks in about 3 metres of water in search for a saltwater barramundi when the tip of the SS suddenly dived down. I thought the lure was snagged so I started to reel in the lure to check, this is when I felt the weight and the distinctive head shake of a fish. There seems to be a momentary lag in term of the transmission of the impact, if that makes any sense to you (again, I think this feature serves well when it comes to picking up short bites while retrieving lure at a medium to high speed).

I don't think the rod will work heavy or high resistance lures very well due to, you guessed it, the soft tip.

To sum up, in my humble opinion, it is a special rod with a strong design focus.

And of course, being Megabass, it is well built. Although I have to say the anti-slippery black coating on the lock nuts on both side of the reel seat does not stay on very well. Same as the ones on the Shadow series.

Thanks to the slate bridge, the balancing is bang on when paired with a reel weights around 230 g to 250 g. Because of the weight of the slate bridge, they could maximise the effective length of the rod without sacrificing the balance. Mine matches beautifully with a Stella C3000HG spooled with Varivas Max Power Jigging PE #1 - the silver, gold and purple are all there.

PM me if you need any other information regarding the rod.

This ^^ !!!!

I got the chance to fish with one not long back and I was in a love hate relationship with it!

Basically for the exact reason that the doc has explained. I found with casting it was easier to treat it as a glass tipped rod, where you don't put as much emphasis into the cast but merely load up gradually and cast (let the rod load itself so to speak)

Balance wise I had a 3000 Branzino on it and it matched nicely, my personal preference however would be a heavier 3k or a light 4k (purely due to how i prefer the balance)

Also Im 99% sure that Freddy's in Brendale should have a similar model in stock (I have one in my store so going off stock wise they should have one, if not it will be the mobile tourist shaft which is similar too so it can give you a feel of the slant bridge design)