17 hours ago, J Francho said:

Yeah, I get it.  Personally, I'd keep them.  String 'em up with braid, except the 6'6".  For that, I'd use it as topwater/jerKbait rod and use 30# Supercast.  That stuff is great for this.  Floats, acts like mono, zero stretch, twice as strong by diameter.

Best idea. Purchase couple Shimano SLX for em, and you have a strong Combo

 

Me personally,  the 6'6 M would be a bit light for my style fishing. But the other 2 MH, keep em bro, and rip lips with em

20 hours ago, Glaucus said:

How do you feel about the original Lightning rod? I've got 4 of the 6'6" M/MF Lightning rods right now, paired with Abu Garcia Silver Max reels, and I don't even like Abu products for the most part. But for whatever reason those original Lightning rods with that Abu reel are absolutely perfect for how I like to fish 1.5 sized squarebills as well as 1/4oz lipless crankbaits. They bomb them, keep fish pinned, and the IPT is on point. I tried the Shock rods for this a couple years ago but it wasn't the same.

I like the original/regular lightning rods just fine. In fact they are the rods I have in the back of my truck for pond/shore fishing when I don't feel like going out on the boat. The current generation of them with the same style reel seats as the Fenwick HMG's might be the best ones they have had in a long long time. For a while I didn't care for them. I am trying to think back how many gen's I first started using Lightning rods, but it was in the late 80's. My favorite version of them up to this point, were the early 90's "Pro" series with black EVA grips. Those rods were stupid light and sensitive for the money. I didn't like them very much between those and probably the gen. before the current ones, but the last series of lightning rods have returned them to another high bang for the buck rod. The only reason I fish Shocks more than the regulars is the fact the Shock are designed around braid, and I'm a braid guy. The regulars handle braid just fine, but in the late 90's early 2000's I had guides on the regular ones groove with braid, and that's always left a bad taste in my mouth. But I think that's a thing of the past. Those early braids were known to chew up guides.

15 hours ago, NittyGrittyBoy said:

Best idea. Purchase couple Shimano SLX for em, and you have a strong Combo

I have a NIB 6.3 rightie I could let go for a slight profit...  

Nice reel, too small for my liking.

 

I have 3 casting and 2 spinning, excellent rods for the money. I keep a couple in my car, one with braid and one with copolymer. There isn't much I can't do with those 2 rods. 

They're an excellent budget bass rod in my opinion .