halibut rod?

[taggermike]

There are some excellent recomendations made here. Bay or ocean mostly determin what rod i use. I'm with fishinkid about a softer parabolic rod. Mt favorite hali rod was a 8 foot allstar composit. soft but with decent lifting power. I had one of the penn international bait casters on it. The low gear ratio of that reel allowed me to fight the fish with out pumping the rod. I find that slow steady presure to be better for landing halis. Just hooking and keeping it hooked is the tough part about halibut. Many fish are just barely hooked and a softer touch helps me. Mike

[mrJB]

Spoke to soon and broke my second Kencor, my second favorite halibut rod, a Kencor K-SWBT 711H (15-30). Broke at the same place as my last one, 1/3 down from the tip. At least this time there was a fish on...

Guess I know why they went out of business ...