Just curious of what kind of rods you guys you use to catch bait? Catching Some jack,stingray, and Mack's. this is a shimano sienna 4000 size reel with 20 pound braid and some 20 pound mono on top. The rod is a Star rod Stellar lite series 7'0" 15-25lb I picked up for 9 dollars 
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Thats A Good Price For Rod & Reel. Everybody Uses Different Varities 
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yea i am a light tackle kind of guy when it comes to some things
Down In Miami Due To the Different Kinds Of Bait We Use Or Is Avaiable To Us tackle Varies. ie. Baraacuda You Would Use A Penn 4/0...Same For Bonito & Smaller Tuna. Phlcherds, We Use A 4 To 8lb Spinner Set Up. Say Sting Rays Penn 9/0 So You Dont Get Striped. 
Down In Miami Due To the Different Kinds Of Bait We Use Or Is Avaiable To Us tackle Varies. ie. Baraacuda You Would Use A Penn 4/0...Same For Bonito & Smaller Tuna. Phlcherds, We Use A 4 To 8lb Spinner Set Up. Say Sting Rays Penn 9/0 So You Dont Get Striped.
i use a cabo 30 to snag rays with and i get some decent size rays and never had one come close to stripping me. i wanna see the rays you need a 9/0 for.
No Pic. Of Rays Due To Its Baits, But If Your Instrected look Up archivies And You Will See the Size Of The Rays We Use 
are you actually fishing for the rays u use for bait or are you snagging them. my buddy has speared some huge rays and i have seen some big rays hooked and landed but never snagged.
I Dont Understand 
Are You Saying We Are Snaging The Reys Or Are We Targeting Them For Bait? Theirs Is A Difference !
i snag my rays for bait the ones swimming on top but i know southern rays hang on the bottom and will eat baits. so im asking are you snagging the ones on top or actually fishing for a ray on the bottom.
Different Times The Rays Do Different Things!!!
So far I've been able to catch every good fish I would use for shark bait on my penfishingrod.com combos.
Here's three of my best catches:
You can see it in action here on my youtube channel.
http://www.youtube.com/user/markpreeschlresto
Just an average fisherman.
I use a shimano stella 4000Fe on a st croix legend inshore for most of my larger jigs for bonita, jacks etc
I use a shimano stradic ci4 4000 for ladyfish, blues and macks
I use a daiwa saltist 6500 (33lbs of drag fully locked down) on a 8ft dogfish stik with 150lb powerpro for snagging rays 10-80lbs......
I use a separate daiwa saltist 6500 spooled with 80lb braid for anything else large that can be used for bait IE other sharks etc
Mark you crack me up with that thing it looks fun as hell though
I use 12 and 8 foot ugly sticks and big spinning reels loaded with 50lb braid for most all my bait fishing.
i use a cabo 30 to snag rays with and i get some decent size rays and never had one come close to stripping me. i wanna see the rays you need a 9/0 for.
Side note... I have caught rays that would most likely dump a 9/0 senator. Have had rough tails that pulled 50-60lbs of drag off these rays would smoked 20lbs of drag.
heres one that I caught on an Avet 80 and it made a few good runs under drags pushing 60lbs. It was an easy 300lbs
Heres one A friend caught this year with me that was over 200lbs and it pulled heavy drag off a Makira 80W
Thats A Great Bait Easy 8 Shark Baits On That Ray There