My catfish rigs take a beating slinging big weights and big baits, plus getting banged around fishing at night and getting put in rod holders.
So like the iHookem, I only fish glass rods. They’re tougher and they’re also cheaper for when not if I bust one.
My current favorites are the Daiwa Beefkitty conventional rods. They have a very soft tip that works great with circle hooks. I also have some Meathunter rods that are okay, very well constructed but the price has went up and their CS was nonexistent when I needed it.
Catfishing is a brute force game to me, pitching half a gizzard shad or a crappie head for 40-60 pound fish calls for medieval gear.
Same take here, stuff gets banged around and occasionally broken fishing from a little aluminum tub in very muddy rivers early in the morning or at night, so I'm not going put a lot of dollars into my catfish rigs.
It's not really a finesse game, so the weight doesn't really matter since the rods are just sitting in a holder or against the side of the boat waiting on a bite 90% of the time.
My personal favorites were the older Berkley Big Games, back when you could still get them in 6'&6'6" lengths. They haven't made those in quite a while now, though, and I'm down to my last couple of them.
Ugly Stiks, King Kats, hell even just a cheap Shakespeare/Zebco/Ozark Trail glass rod from Wallyworld all get the job done for modest sized cats.
I got my kid one of those cheapazz Shakespeare Durangos for slinging stinkbait rigs a couple years ago, and it works suprisingly well for a $9 pos 🤷♂️ He's landed quite a few with it and it hasn't snapped yet... no monsters or anything, but a lot of run of the mill stinkbait sized (around here) 4-7# channels.