50 lb Braid or 17 lb Mccoy copolymer for pitching for me. Both are low memory which I like for pitching. Now, I think I will go back to fluoro when fishing deep open water. Just my two cents, and probably worth less than that.

Here's 17 minutes of flipping heavy cover on Big O and not a single broken rod. Not a one!

To be fair, Mike has broken numerous rods in his day. He has gone through a couple different manufactures trying to find a rod to hold up to his abuse. Not saying thats due to fishing braid, but the style of fishing he does.  

 

I have broken rods with braid, mono, fluoro, it's not the lines fault its user error as others have mentioned.   

 

mjseverson24- Trying to pickup a 10lb weight with a rod and bouncing it around is not the same as setting the hook on a fish/rock/log. Doing that with any rod and line combo is going to cause rod breakage issues and really has no merit in the fishing world besides maybe boat flipping 10lb+ fish. Kind of the same argument as bowhunters shooting broad heads into 55 gallon drums. I'll start worry about that when we start hunting steel drums and fishing involves dead lifting weights into the boat. 

I bought a revo stx at 7.1:1 for my flippin reel and put it on a 7'6" MH veritas and I spooled it with 50lb power pro braid. I got two questions. 1) should I go with 65lb braid instead? 2) Does anyone have any suggestions for other flippin rods in the $100-$200 range? I'm not comfortable with anything larger than 7'8" in length

I've been looking at the Denali Kovert 7'8" xh flippin rod.  I think it retails at $149.  If you don't want anything over 7'8" that might be a rod worth checking out.  I also have a 7'6"mh veritas that I used as my frog rod this year and its definitely a work horse.  As for line if your pitching and especially punching some real nasty stuff going up to 65lb might not be a bad idea.  I think I'm going to try out 65lb Sunline fx2 braid this year on my heavy cover set up. 

If you flip with braid, take a look at Dee Thomas guides for flipping.

Tom

PS, TT review 3/20/2013

 I can vouch for the Denali Kovert 7'8" Extra Heavy. It is a very nice rod and I'll be using it for punching and flipping, along side a Duckett White Ice 7'9" Extra Heavy. Both Rods are great for their price range. I was honestly surprised with how nice the Kovert is, I had doubt on ordering the Denali because I'm pretty diehard on White Ice Rods but now I'm glad I did. I'll be buying the Denali Kovert 7'2" Heavy and the 6'9" Med-Hvy very soon they are that nice. I know I'm new here but if you knew me, this is a huge statement, I really don't fish anything other than Duckett Rod's so this is high praise for Denali.

I've never broke a rod on a bass, it was always operator error!

I flip/pitch/punch Toledo Bend's huge grass mats, Buck Brush fields, endless acres of standing timber & have landed dozens of bass from 8-12 lbs.

I'm currently using a Shimano Crucial 7' 11" Xhvy, Calcutta CT100A, & 65# TUF LINE XP.