i love to work with small rods they are a blast last summer myself and a few of the friends (sitkadeer and akgrayling) took a trip up north on the denali highway and fish some creeks that were no more than 5 feet wide i used my 6 foot 3 weight and had a blast its a great rod i use it on the lakes here in anchorage all the time and have caught up to about 20 inch rainbows on it and several 20 inch grayling on it and it handled them fine