How will this rod work for just walking the bank taking one rod mainly throwing 1/4oz poppers, small finesse worms, keitech swing impact on 1/8oz jighead and strike king mini 1/8oz soinnerbaits 

You should be fine with those lures on a 702.

My only concern was the popper may be too heavy?

My concern would be putting a heavy plastic on the jig...but the Swing Impacts up to the 4" wouldn't overload the rod...if you use a Fat Impact, I'd keep it to the 3.8...the 4.8 is a bit heavy.

28 minutes ago, MN Fisher said:

My concern would be putting a heavy plastic on the jig...but the Swing Impacts up to the 4" wouldn't overload the rod...if you use a Fat Impact, I'd keep it to the 3.8...the 4.8 is a bit heavy.

I use regular 4” swing impact and 4” easy shiner exclusively 

6 minutes ago, Striper9 said:

I use regular 4” swing impact and 4” easy shiner exclusively 

You'll be fine with those two.

On 8/12/2023 at 8:50 PM, Striper9 said:

My only concern was the popper may be too heavy?

It definitely won’t be too heavy, the sweet spot on the rod is 1/4 or 3/8 + plastic. I’ve fished 1 oz bucktails in saltwater on the 702 with no problem.

As far as I’m concerned, a Dobyns 2 power isn’t good for much of anything. I have a Champ 732 and never use it.

I use the 733 for 1/8 jigheads and above and it works great. Their spinning rods are rated alot like their baitcasters. A Medium (3 power) is really a Medium Light.

The Dobyns 2 power spinning rods are really wimpy. I find the 3 powers to be much better. They're more like something between a 702 and 703. Like a ML+. They perform a lot better for me - my opinion. 

i've got that rod and use it for river/stream fishing with very little vegetation to deal with , chunk rock mainly. the baits you mention are fine but for any grass or pads i'd want a little more backbone with a 3(med) being my choice for a pond/lake that at least had some open water.