I tend to go with 6 foot medium action riged with braided line. This tends to give me the best feel for the jig and any lite bites. If you can find an mitchell avocet ii they are good litte combos. I bought my first one so I had a rod I could leave in the box of my truck and not care if it got busted. After fishing with it awhile I figured out it may not be fancy but it sure catches the hell out of the fish .....think I have four now.