Ugly sticks #1101 light action 9'. We use these year round w/ zero problems. Big kings or brownies, it doesn't matter. I think they are about $55/rod. Check Walmart.
IBay looks pretty good until you get to the southern most parts where the north wind stacked up all that muddy water. The rest of the bay looks stained.
Gotta bite, Try the snubbers from Dreamweaver. I've never had one break and they are not as bulky.
Smalltaulk, ditto to what Jolly II said and you won't pull your hair out when the fleas arrive by late June.
All I've ever had were Cannons. I have no opinion on other brands. Soon were getting a couple digitrolls to replace some older ones on the boat. The new digitrolls have bottom tracking and have a retrieval rate of 250'/minute! You just need to purchase a special transducer to be able to do this.