7 ft medium faster action spinning rod and reel with 8-10 lb mainline, caught some phat blackmouth around manchester and pnp with that setup. think of the 7 ft spinning rods like they use for bass, shakespears has some good ones reasonobly priced. make sure to use a line like mcCoy or another line with no memory and a 2 ft shock leader of 15 lb test, I just like using lighter spinning rods I guess