What's the best material for your rod to be made of?

[DakotaElkSlayer]

  I am starting to shop around for a longer ice rod to handle burpot and lakers...fish up to seven pounds or so, I guess.  I am totally clueless on what kind of material I should be looking for in this type of rod.  Should I be sticking with the solid graphite that I have been using in my UL rods, or would a fiberglass or composite do better for me.  Would love to hear all of your input on this.

Thanks,

Jim

[Wiener]

I think that they should be meat sticks, like we use for Catfishing.

Graphite is best for feeling lite bites.  There's nothing subtle about a Lake trout bite.

I think a fairly soft tip with some good backbone would be the way to go.

Fiberglass is probably your best bet.


Wiener