[macojoe]

What he said!!

All my rods are 7 footers!

9 gets to be to long when you have that thrashing Bass, and you have to stick the rod but over the other side so you can get the fish close enough to the boat to get it in.

A old friend of mine who taught me all once said to me, "Never get a rod longer then the beam of the boat" Just for that very reason above.

But to each his own. But I have found this advice to be right on the money!