[JohnR]

Most of the guys on the Canal are using 10' custom rods for jigging. Alot are getting the 11' Lamis cut down to make a meat stick for jigging. More recently, there has been a subtle switch to the All-Star blanks for this purpose. Mike Thomas at <a href="http://capecodtackle.com" target="_blank"><!--auto-->http://capecodtackle.com</a><!--auto--> has been building alot of these Ditch sticks for the local canal ratts down there. He has actually written a very detailed article on custom canal rods for the site but I'm waiting for the pics to come in before putting the article up. I can't help you with the braid as I only fish 20-30# Big Game...call me an old fart I guess...

Do you really want to drop all the way to an 8 footer???