about a week or so ago my new highly anticipated rod arrived from tackle warehouse America - this was my first dedicated jack stick so couldn't wait to try it out an own some jacks- which was not the case, in the last week of owning it, i've hooked four crackers but couldn't stop them finding the poles on pontoons an they owned me not the other way round- went out this morn again into surfers paradise to try for a bit of revenge , hooked one jack an finally managed to stop one one- nothing massive but nice to finally land one on the new stick