I need a rod.

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Hello, GSM2 here and I need help with a flipping rod. I am looking at, Shimano Crucial, Kistler $179.00(it's a flipping stick can't remember model), Fenwick Techna AV and G Loomis but only as a last resort. I am out to sea now and don't have the luxury of getting that tell, tell feel. So I am asking you for your experience, not only with performance but with customer service and with what reel model and line size/type did you use? I am attracted to the Kistler but could I save twenty bucks and get the same from the crucial? Never tried a Fenwick product and on my pay the $300.00 Gloomis will probably send the wife into convulsions. I have heard of a rod company called Laminglas? I haven't had any experience with them either. Thanks in advance.