I am looking to buy a beffier rod for fall chinook fishing and just wanted to see what people had to suggest. I dont want to spend over about 120 for the rod, then just plan to put an Abu Garcia ambassador level wind on it. I was thinking somewhere around 10-30lb rod and something that can handle me casting up to a 3oz or even 4oz weight. Any suggestions of what people have liked would be awesome.

I am also in the near future planning on buying a float rod. If you have any suggestions for length and weight let me know.

Chad, when are those Batson custom rods going to be available? I'm assuming there's a model that's longer, 10+ ft, that would be great for float fishing. If so what kind of $ would I be looking at? I hooked another nice fish today on the McKenzie. Black, white, and red jig.

Well if any has any suggestions I had chatted with a couple guys are various tackle shops and I'm starting to learn towards a Shimano Clarus. Does anyone have or know anyone thats used these rods? They're only about $90 with a lifetime warranty! They are Shimnao's NW salmon/steelhead rods and I was mostly looking at either a heavy power, 10-30lb rod, or the mod heavy power, 12-25 lb rod. If you have any suggestions hook me up! I definately want the rod that can handle big fall fish, but I also dont want one so heavy that it takes the fun out of springers. My friends had has an xtra heavy and its as stiff as a board, takes all the fight out.

We are still working on the rods, lots of irons in the fire at the moment. I like the buzz ramsey im8 rods for around $80 and they are pretty good rods. I have a heavy rod and a 10'6", 12-20 lb rod as well for float fishing. I would say med-heavy to heavy would be good for Chinook.

Nice well thanks for the advice. I ended up ordering one of those Clarus rods. Its heavy power and rated for 10-30lb. Well whenever you hear something about your custom rods let me know. I assume you will have something about 10.5 that would be a good float rod? What kind of price do you think those rods will be running?

I have a rod shop in So Calif. and I build custom fly rods and building a steelhead spinning rod now on a 9' Matrix blank, I can build anthing you want My prices start at $100 and up to 400 all depending on the blank. I do not do this for a living only for friends and word of mouth. I build working rods, good parts and nothing fancy that drives the cost up.