new rod selection

[MuskieBait]

UL can be used for so much more than panfish. A UL rod isn't outclassed by small pike. Pike up to 3lb don't fight too much anyways. Walleye in the usual eater size is great with a UL. Bass up to 2lbs as long as you're not fishing heavy weed cover, is great with the UL too.

Depend on the area you are fishing, and more importantly the lure you need to use, a medium rod will handle a lot. I've caught Channel Cat up to 8lb, Chinook Salmon up to 25lbs in the creek, Steelheads up to 8lbs, Northern Pike up to 32", Walleye up to 27", Common Carp up to 20lb+, Bowfin up to 29" pushing 8-9lbs, one Grass Carp that was 30lbs, a 33" Common Snook, over a dozen Great Barracuda to 28"...all on medium rods. It depends really on where you are fishing and what you are throwing. Pike and muskie are not very different, and a medium rod will handle muskies to 40". I know because my buddy caught a 36" and a 41" muskies on the same day on a medium rod...the 36" in a fast flowing river and the 41" from a reed bed.