I use 7' med heavy, seems to be better for me. Dragging in those big spinners -sheepshead, I use big board's,but just got some inlines so I think the medium hvy. Will work good with them. I used my high dollar bass fishing rods,but wanted to get rods just for walleye fishing /trolling. After some experiments with different rods, for the price, the New gx2 ugly stick seems to be a good rod.l wasn't a big fan of ulgy sticks, but progress and price has made them a good deal