hey paul, i have used one of these rods before as afew of my fishing buddies own them for a light popper rod. they are running stellas with 50pound over it, they are catching fish 20-25kg with this set up, yet if you going to hook onto that 30kg+ it would be a different story. i am normally running my PE8(live fibre) or PE10 (xzgoa Taka-Pi 7710) incases that fish of a life time is around :-)