I'm Flying to Folly SC for some Bass fishing for a weekend to meet an old friend, I am vary nervous about checking my current fishing outfits with my luggage as I love them very much, so I figured I'd just order two new rods and either bring the reels or just two whole new outfits. The two I use most frequently are my 6'6" MH action rods one is BPS Xtreme with the Shimano Curado 100 baitcaster I use for plastics and the other is a 3 year old BPS Rick clunn Signature Series topwater rod and Rick Clunn Signature Series Baitcast I use for hard baits.

I'm looking for something to use for plastics down there and something to use for hard baits, and with my two outfits I have now I have found that there is a differnce in feel when comparing a work or hard bait on both poles, I wouldn't use one of those two for anything else than What I currently use them for...

so I'd like to open this up for some suggestions, I haven't decided yet if I'm going to get a two combo's or just get two rod's and travel with the reels. I am currently comfortable with my 6'6"'s mh and would like to stick to that for this trip as I'm not going to learn or improve with anything just fish and do what I already know with an old buddy.

These new purchases will probably fall in line as my number 3 and 4 rods for certain situations may a permanent drop shot or wacky rod and maybe the other will be shall crank rod or something who kows, point is I don't need them to neccesarily be better than what I have but comparable, I figure a good combo price range to shoot for is 80-100 bucks per combo and if I just get a rod somewhere around 50 bucks or so...

What do you know or think about these...

I'm currently looking at the

Bass Pro Shops® Bionic Blade XPS Trigger Rods - 6'6" MH

and....

Bass Pro Shops® Tourney Special® IM-7 Graphite Rod - Trigger - Model TYS66MT - 6'6" MH

Oh yeah I fish braided line and nothing else

The bionic blades are on sale right now for 54.99 (just 5 bucks more than the tourney special).