FYI: My all-time favorite rod for side-drifting & drift-fishing is the CP X96 LLS. If you haven't fished this rod you owe it to yourself to do so. I've fished it beside my G-Loomis 1141's in both the IMX and GLX, and I like it better. It features a little more strength in the butt-section and is a little more sensitive in the tip section. You can load this rod with a big strong fish and it bends into the nicest parabola you'll ever hold. The same fish will put all the bend into the butt-section of an 1141 while its tip essentaily straightens out.

Try-em, out. You'll like them. We have two lamiglas rods to give away at the SolFly Tourney, and one of them is this rod.