Good crappie rod?

[1nutinthewater]

Looking to try a new fishery- Crappie. Not to big in my area sounds like the largest are 12" while most average 10".
I have a large variety of quality trout rods but looking for 2-4# crappie sticks for throwing light jigs. I have a kuying Teton 642UL which i think will work nice but any advice appreciated. Will probably buy 3-4 so would like to keep price under $150 each.
Reels? I have several stradic 1000 and tatula but would love to try the Soare ci4 500.

[ultralight]

I had the Soare 500 CI4 in hand to check out. Never fished it. Liked it but I prefer size 1000. You are not saving much weight but the spool size difference can be significant. I think the 1000 performs better than 500 but that is just my opinion...

As to rods, everyone has their own opinions but I would personally take two $300 rods over four $150 rods. Or even just one $400 rod.... Hope you don't mind the interaction that is not quite exactly what you asked about.

[slipperybob]

I typically wouldn't mind the 1000 size reels. If bobber fishing, I step up to next size up reels, maybe even 4000 size if needing to bomb a big bobber.

Smaller waters, easily a 6' rod or shorter anywhere from UL to ML in power. Longer casting 7' rods or longer.

Sometimes I only need a 2' bobber drop. Sometimes it's 15-20' slip bobber rig.

[1nutinthewater]

I had the Soare 500 CI4 in hand to check out. Never fished it. Liked it but I prefer size 1000. You are not saving much weight but the spool size difference can be significant. I think the 1000 performs better than 500 but that is just my opinion...

As to rods, everyone has their own opinions but I would personally take two $300 rods over four $150 rods. Or even just one $400 rod.... Hope you don't mind the interaction that is not quite exactly what you asked about.

I just cannot bring myself to spend over $300 for a rod to catch such tiny fish which come to the boat so quickly. No problems spending $600 on a salmon or steel head set up.........