I've got a super soft bite. That's a good fish. Yeah, that's what we're looking for. Welcome back everyone. This video is strictly about the brand new ACC Ice Rod. A lot of people were asking about it. I've seen a couple videos on Facebook of Andy just kind of showing what it is. I wanted to put it on the ice and actually the first thing I need to discuss, people ask is this ACC 30 inch rod the same sensitivity as a noodle rod. And that is usually the first pan fish style rod people use. Fairly parabolic bend to them. This is a frail bill. I believe it's a 26 inch noodle rod. Fairly parabolic bend to them. These are great for your smaller jigs. 64, 32 inch, ounce tungsten jigs. Something like those guys right there. Yeah. So those rods work designed for that lighter style of jigging. And they're great for a sensitive bite. These rods are designed so that when you're hanging a, when you're dropping down a, let's say a 30 second ounce tungsten jig, the rod tip actually loads up. And so when a croppy specifically has that negative bite, they grab the lure and they keep rising in the water column with it. And I got a fish coming up hold on. These new rods are designed for those smaller jigs. The rod tip loads up. As you can see on the screen, those croppy are actually rising up. They're chasing the lure. But they're going to hit that lure and keep rising in the water column with it. And that's when this rod tip would unload and tell you that you've got a bite. The one thing that they are not meant for or not good at is jigging a lipless crankbait. They don't really have enough backbone. This is actually a heavier version of what a noodle rod would be. This is probably more of like a light action instead of the ultra light actions. Those ultra light actions are like, you can basically bend it all the way down below the rod handle. But they're not great at those heavier baits. Those spoons, those lipless crankbaits, blade baits, stuff that you probably used for croppy. I love using lipless crankbaits and spoons. So a lot of people would actually combat it with this guy. This is a 30 inch medium heavy fray bill. This is a walleye jigging rod. This is actually probably four year. Quarter ounce, three A-sounds, possibly half ounce, spoons blade baits, your bigger walleye setups. But as you can see on the end here, if it's not going to focus, this is a spring bobber. Now a lot of people equip the spring bobber to a variety of rods. And it's great because it is super, super sensitive. As you can see here, it is super sensitive at detecting a bite. Oh, we got a croppy coming in hot. So that spring bobber is a great substitute if you have a stiffer rod that's meant for heavier jigging action. The problem with these a lot of times, as you can see, now they make them in different forms. But as you can see, it's a big spring coil. And if that gets iced up or snow in it, it's a pain with the butt to actually get that out. And the line gets stuck when going through there. They actually make a smaller titanium. It's flat with a little kind of loop at the end. It's actually pretty good. A lot of guys use that. So that is the second style of panfish rods. First one was a noodle rod. This was more of an adaptation to your heavier jigging rods. And then comes the soft tip or some companies call it a quick tip. Basically it's a combination of your noodle rod setup. The tip is built like a noodle rod. As you can see, it's not a true parabolic bend. It's got backbone. And the way the rod is supposed to sit is straight down the hole. So when we set the hook on a fish, you're not setting it to the side. Not like it opened water. You're setting it straight up and down. By the way, I get this question all the time. Why do ice anglers hold their rod like this? So when you set the hook, you find the fish like this. And when you set the hook, you set it straight up, which is why raising it like this is a lot easier than trying to go like this with the rod. It's just a lot more ergonomic. It's a lot more comfortable holding in your hand like that. So when you set the hook, because you're setting the hook straight up from the hole, and the main reason for that is when you set it to the side, that line can actually slide on the outside of the hole and potentially fray or cut the line. So you want to set it straight up above the hole. And notice how this has bent. You fight the fish straight down the hole. That's the way a lot of these quick tip rod actions are set up. This is a 30 second ounce tungsten. It'll load up the tip. It'll load up that rod tip. And then when a cropier blue gill or something has that negative bite, it'll unload it. And you know you have a strike. But these things have enough backbone. I'm using 16 ounce lipless crankbaits right now. I was using some 8 ounce spoons earlier. The max you probably want to go with this is probably a quarter ounce. I feel like quarter ounce is probably pushing it on the weight that you should use. For this light action rod. And people ask on the Facebook post that Andy had, you know, how this hold up for walleye and pike. Definitely a dead stick rod for walleye. You can probably use it as that. You can probably use it on the lighter side for walleye lures like an 8 ounce spoon or 16 ounce like these lipless crankbaits I'm using right now. You probably could use it for walleye as well. As far as a pike rod, no. Companies mostly make probably six to seven different styles of rods. And this is a light action rod. This is a pan fish style rod. We wanted to make a rod, you know, when I talk to Andy about making a, just one ice rod. We wanted to make something that you could use a wide variety of lures. We went from that 30 second to 64 ounce jigs to some lipless crankbaits to some spoons blade bait. So in the comment section on Andy's video on Facebook, somebody commented about the real seed saying that they didn't like it. I understand there's two kind of valid reasons. One's more valid than the other. One reason people don't like the real seed is it tends to add a little bit of weight, maybe an ounce, two ounces at most. Not that big a deal. But in the past, a lot of manufacturers would use the open water real seeds that sit a two thousand or a three thousand size real. And then they try to match it up. Is this guy going to get hit or what's going to go on here? Is that a big crappy? Here comes another one. Come on, eat it. Got him, got him. I don't think he's that big. Still fun to watch him on the camera. Oh, buddy. What are you doing, man? Oh, this is not, not the size we want. There's a ton of them down there. And they're super aggressive. This is not even close to the size we want. See you, bud. So they take that open water real seed and they try to match it up with something like this. This is the PC fun ICX 5. It's a 500 size spinning wheel. A lot of people actually open water fishermen if you're a dockshooter, big 500 size real, regardless of manufacturer. But the 500 size real is perfect for that. It's a small spool. It's off there really nice. The line shoots off there really nice. But the one complaint is that manufacturers would put the larger real seed and try to pair it up with the 500 size real, an ice fishing style real. And there'd be plenty. And a lot of times, I remember this. I had ice fishing rods where the real would actually fall off. If you set the hook too hard, there'd be enough play for that real to kind of wiggle loose stuff. So we wanted to make sure that when we put these rods together and we're going to put a real seed on them, that they sit pretty tight. Most manufacturers now have this right where they sit a, they'll fit a 500 size real and it'll be snug. There's no play as you can see on this thing. There's no play to it. It's not moving. It's not coming out. It's not going to pop out on you. That is one valid complaint that a lot of manufacturers used to get was they put the larger size real seeds on there. But this one fits an ice fishing reel. It sits there tight. There's no play to it. So yep, that is the 30 and a half inch ACC ice rod. You can check it out. I'll leave a link below. I just realized a bunch of people had questions about it. What the action looked like on the rod. To meant to be, to fight fish straight down the hole. It doesn't have that parabolic bend like a lot of new rods do because it has a backbone. You can actually jig spoons and lipless crankbaits with it. So. Whoa. Easy. I want to go ahead. Check this out. I'll leave a link in the video description below. I'll leave a link to the entire setup too. You can check out the PC fun ice X5s. These are the 500 size real. These are what I use for ice fishing. I've used these three years now. They work great. This is a very affordable setup. I think the rod we're selling at ACC's market at $39.99. That's the other thing. A lot of people say, well, you could have gone with a longer rod, all fiber glass. That's true. And maybe we will. This is the first ice rod that ACC makes. Most companies have two kind of panfish rods, one between 28 to 32 inches and then one between 38 to 40 to 42 inches, 45 inches sometimes. That's when those are the two kind of length ranges that most companies have. I would love to see ACC put out that 38 to 40 inch range length on their rods. I think a lot of people will use them. But let me know in the comment section if you already bought one because I know a bunch of people bought one. Let me know what you think about them because we wanted to design something that's going to fit your budget, but also give you the most the widest range of lures to use with just a single panfish rod. That was our goal. I think we did it. Appreciate you watching. Got any comments or questions you can post in the comment section below or you can message me on either Facebook or Instagram. Yeah, be sure to click that subscribe button, click that bell. I always appreciate that. Let me know if you got one of these ice rods. What you think about them. I honestly want to know.