Anyone have one of those 5' ultra-light spinning rod/reel combos?  What do you think?

 

I picked this up off eBay last week from a guy in PA, for only $6 bucks! Heck, the shipping cost more than the sale! LOL...

80's Shakespeare TSP-50 2 UL, mated with my 80's Shakespeare Alpha 1000 UL spinning reel, and 4# line.

 

Hopefully you can see it well enough in this photo, when I was at a nearby public park, with a weedless rubber worm rig that I made.

 

A $6 rod you want to fish is a keeper.  Short para UL to me is a stream rod.  

I'd rather have a long XUL rockfish rod for shore fishing.  

This is a 15-y-o solid-tip Takamiya Loco Move matched with diminutive Tica Cetus and 4-lb copolymer.  This jewel has landed slot snook from a dock.  

If you have a distance-finesse niche, can find a current comparable rod from Major Craft.  

The rule is tubular tip is better for micro-plugs, and solid tip for soft baits.  

Thanks... I think I have all the bases covered, as the saying goes:

 

Berkley Tri-Sport 7' Med/Hvy action, ©1968 (My Dad's).

Spinmaster Diamond (South Bend "clone") heavy duty reel.

10# Spider Wire braided line (2024, by me) -- Spool #1.

12# Stren monofilament (I think) on spare Spool #2 in the tacklebox.

............................

Old vintage Garcia Conolon rods & reels, Mitchell 304 reel....

Daiwa rods & reels (70's).

Shakespeare rods & reels (80's).

.............................

And now an 80's Ultra-light Shakespeare rod & reel setup to make everything complete!

Oooh I love my ultralight setups including @bulldog1935’s Tica Cetus on my 5’-6” BPS Bionic Blade rod😃

I fished about 3 hrs today with mine. It’s a falcon 5’6 UL from Academy and a Shimano Sierra 1000 reel (or maybe 500, can’t remember - too lazy to go look). 4# mono. Fished a micro glide and it was really fun. But it’s in a tree now. TEMU for the win. 

@Smirak

This was my daughter's go-to for nursery seatrout on Fulton Beach Pier, before I added the long rockfish rods in my first post.  Matched with Penn 4200SS.  

A skill we honed to catch 40 in the hour after sunset and dinner at Cap'n Benny's.  

 

But the rockfish rods more than doubled our reach to fish the far edges of the lights. 

The long progressive XUL rods fish lighter, farther, and turn bigger fish.  

one solid-tip, one tubular-tip -almost a random snag from Rakuten to give them a try