>>2241547Cabelas cgr, or eagle claw are about your only options for something under $100 that won't break immediately. If you're dead set on carbon, echo base rod.
>>2241537>>2241487I don't know how it is in Cali but on the east coast piers are private businesses and that fee pays for someone to work the counter, the lights on the pier, maintainance, plumbing, and rebuilding after storms.