Broad question but given what you are targeting any medium weight 6 1/2 foot spinning rod would be a good general purpose rod. I fish almost every day and have a wide variety of rods and reels. I find I get settled into and comfortable with what I have and some of those combos aren't high end tackle. I have plenty from bass pro, and cabelas and feel they offer some good choices with a wide variety of costs. I do feel extra money is well spent on a reel though. A cheaper reel just won't hold up and many of them are around 20 to 30 dollars. I have found the Pflueger line of presidential reels in the 30 or 35 size which are around 60 bucks to be absolutely my go to reel. There are better ones at significantly more money but for a medium priced reel they are great. I used to have a nitro bass boat and have 8 or 10 casting rods with level wind type reels. It takes a little more skill to get used to them and since you specified spinning I would encourage you to stick with those. One casting rod in a 6' length is great if you like to throw spinner baits though and are good for Carolina rigging. Money is well spent on a good level wind reel though. The cheaper ones just will be lots of problems with back lashes etc. If I am fishing that way a casting rod reel combo is much better. These days I commercially fish for pan fish almost every day and my normal rods are all spinning and light weight. Being on Champlain I catch bass every day even though I am not targeting them and have no problem getting them into the boat and releasing them with UL poles and 4 pound test line. If money is no object there are some very nice medium action graphite poles available at most good sporting shops. If you live near a bass pro or Cabelas they will have a wide inventory you can hold, shake and look at to get a good idea of what feels good. Use good quality line and change it often before you lose that big one because the sun deteriorated the line. Since I fish almost every day I fill each spool with cheap line and save the last 100 ft for the premium line. I join the 2 together with either a blood knot or an improved Albright and put a small tab of electrical tape over the knot once it gets on the reel so it doesn't grab. When the line starts to get shorter and I need to replace it I just go back to the tape and replace that last section of line. A spool of line lasts for much longer and in doing it that way you tend to change out the line more often as it gets shorter or begins to show sign of sun damage. I have spinning rods ranging from 6' to 12' on my pan fishing boat and all of them have a specific type fishing they are there for. Good luck and hope this helps.