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I want to narrow it down some more. Are you looking to cast 1 ounce jigs & bombers? 3 Ounce swimming plugs? Eels? 3 ounces plus bait? * and Bait? There are a lot of different subsets of surfcasting that need to be considered. Say you were going to use a smaller Gibbs popper or a Bomber, you couldn't cast those with a 12 foot Uglystick and a Penn 8500. Sure they'd sail 50 feet but they wouldn't put any kind of load on the rod to cast it out. Now say you had an off the shelf 9 foot Daiwa Sealine that would cast these, you wouldn't want to put a half a pogie and a 4 ounce sinker on it because it would probably break on the cast.
There really aren't a one size fits all, especially for a 12 footer, that can do everything. So it's best to figure out what you'll specialize in first. Doesn't make a big difference either if it's spinner or conventional and I would recommend spinner at this time anyway.
If you can narrow it down between chunking and lighter pulgs/eels/jigs - that would be helpfull. Are you going to cast & retrieve frequently? Or spike a rod and soak some bait? That has some to do with this too....
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