Guilty as charged Sebastes;)

The GI Joe rod I had and the Spider Man rod that Parker had were a little longer ... maybe 36-40" or so vs. the 20" or so that the Barbie, Sponge Bob, Scooby-Doo rods were in our boat. Last year, a certain unnamed group with goo tackle ties found some pretty nice short rods ... so the rules this year simply stated that it must be a cartoon character rod.

Didn't matter much, all the reels sucked and actually we had more problems with the reels on the GI & Spidey rods than we did the others.

Some of us looked a little harder than others Next year, we may implement a length limit ... or maybe we won't!