I fish a much longer rod than most here on my 30lb set up... as most of my light fishing is chasing surface roving Kingfish on small spoons and lures which require a loooong cast with lighter lures...
So I'm running a Berkley Air 9' XH with a Certate 3500HD and YGK Ultra PE 3..... the Certate is a sublime reel, but a little slow, so I'm looking to switch it up for something faster at some point, but probably not gonna shell out for a Stella/Twinpower, will go with a Stradic 5000 for pure irons spinning and keep the certate on the side for fishing plastics for bigger targets, as well as on a 100gram jigging stick ( JM Sabre 100 )...