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With the potential fish you may encounter from a boat, using a slow action rod (light to medium) is problematic.
Even though you will enjoy the fight, and depending on the species, you may be putting undue stress on the fish.
Slow action rods require you to fight the fish until it tires, thus making those fish less likely to recover properly from the fight.
Fast action rods (medium to heavy) have some bend, but make you work harder fighting the fish, which makes you bring them in quicker.
Basically slow and fast action is more a factor for fly rods, so that you can cast flies of different weights.
For boat rods it would be classified as "ultralight, light, medium, medium heavy and heavy".
I hope this makes sense?
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