Salmon with this rod?

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not too sure. If I was going for a spoon-chucking rig for piers, my setup would be a Penn 4500 spinning reel, 9' medium-heavy ugly stick GX2 rod, 12lb mono mainline with heavy-duty barrel swivel to a 12-15" 10lb mono leader tied to a split ring on the spoon (I would never tie a mono line direct to the spoon ever again, I've lost too many spoons that way because the original cut hole on the spoon has sharp edges). That's how I roll, not too sure how other people usually do it. I wouldn't use a wire leader, I don't ever use them