Advice needed - rods for fishing from land

[lazyfisherman]

Hello everybody

I need some good advice regarding  rods for fishing from the shore. Now I have been fishing for many years (I am now 45 years old) - most of my shore fishing was pole fishing for mulett and zabri around Grand Harbour and Marsamxett harbour. Later I had bought a 7 m rod with reel which I used in the same way as a pole (i.e. fixed float) but having a reel I could fish with lighter tackle and still land decent fish. 

Over the past years I have been fishing less and less and have practically abandoned fishing from land - I have a very small 10 foot boat which I use for bottom fishing and light trolling in and around harbours.

Now I am again getting the bug and would like to resume fishing from the shore too but techniques and tackle have evolved so much since that I am somewhat lost as to what I should buy.

I will be doing light fishing in and around harbours (no spinning, surf casting or fishing from cliffs) - mainly light ledgering and using the running float. I still have my 7m reel rod which has given me very decent catches on a number of occasions. I bought a couple of reels (a very decent daiwa 1500 and a Penn 4000).

My main difficulty is what  rods should I be looking at. I am not interested in competitions so I do not need many rods. So let us set a limit of 2 new rods (in addition to my 7m rod.) What should I be looking at in terms of rod length and casting weight.

Any advice would be very much appreciated.

[placebo]

light ledgering rod 3.9 - 4.5mtrs = 10-20gms for light bottom ledgering with a sensitive tip.

nice 9mtr pole for mullet and other land fishing - suggest you get hold of a good 9mtr that can easily be set up as 8, 7, 6, and even 5mtr pole rod using fixed float

using the 7mtr bolognese rod and a 9mtr pole i suggest you get also hold of a good 4mtr landing net

[lazyfisherman]

Many thanks placebo

Fishing with a modern 9 mtr pole, given that there is no help from a reel's drag, what thickness of terminal tackle would you suggest for a starter (obviously then one would have to experiment) - one that is not too thick but would give me at least a fair chance of landing a good fish, say a 1 or 1.5 kg mulett (using a landing net of course)

Thanks once again
Robert

[placebo]

i will go for 0.14 on hand pole. Take care suitable rod tip is adequate for the job.

[lazyfisherman]

Thanks placebo - It will get some time to adjust myself to such light lines on a pole (never fished below 0.20 but back then lines were not as good as what is available today) even though with the bolognese I did land a couple of good fish with 0.16mm line.

Any good quality  reasonably priced poles that you could suggest?