About to cut my rod down... any advice?

[ivanputski]

im not cutting it to change the action, Im just cutting the butt to shorten the distance from reel to butt... its just too long... I have a 9' tica dolphin that has a shorter butt, and I love it... I want to cut down my other 9' rod that has a but that is needlessly 5'' longer... I also want to cut down my 10' about 5'... more convenient to handle... I know I'll love it on the 9', i HOPE I like it on the 10'. But the tica 9' is the rod I fish 99% of the time with a quantum boca50... first fish on that rod was a 43.5# just hope I never get spooled... I HATE huge reels...