Yes Mark its a z4500h loaded with 50lb Accubraid, I wanted 40lb but it was not available locally.
A short review,
We started the day casting with PE8 and PE10 rods, wrestled a few 20-25kg GT's to the boat before thinking about having a throw with the Lightcast 70M. The run in the tide had slowed so I decided to test out the 70M throwing sebile bonga's and R2S sea rock slugs up to 80g. My first impression was that it seemed a bit noodle like, especially after using the bigger rods for a few hours. However as my confidence grew in the blank I really started to load it up in the cast sending the sea rock slug further than I have thrown any lure!
Crisp casting and excellent blank recovery, casting lures to 80g is not a problem with this rod.
As the tide started to move again we moved spots to a small rock bar coming off an island, a few casts with the bigger rods (using large poppers) and we noticed plenty of action behind the lures but no takes. Cue the Lightcast, I quickly rigged it up with a Nomad Dogtooth stickbait 40gram, running a single on the tail and an assist hook from the nose. Once again the casting distance was good even though it was a lighter lure. The 70m is perfect for this type of luring, effortlesly making the lure dance through the water.
It wasn't long before I was hooked up solid to a quite aerial queenfish, It's quite remarkable how much hurt you can put on a fish with this rod, It has plenty of grunt down low and subdueing the meter queenie after his 2 runs was a piece of cake.
Another 2 fish were landed in the next 10 minutes or so 1 by myself and another by Travis all at the meter mark. Happy with the rods performance we headed off then to try to tangle with some bigger GT's on the heavy gear while the tide was still pumping.
I cant wait to tangle with some bigger fish on this rod.
