I like the Castaway soft touch series crank rods. They are composite and fish a lot like glass. Reasonably priced. I have another rod I use for cranking as well, the Loomis 943c. It's 7'10" so it's not good for accurate casting, but it does fish very sensitive in the tip and I like it for 1/4oz speed traps and stuff like that. Probably would be best to bring a reel to a shop that has a lot of rods and put your reel on some different rods and see what you like. For me, I don't feel like I need super super sensitive rods, because I am more of a line watcher and a line feeler than a rod watcher or rod feeler. I'm looking more for a rod that makes it so they don't spit the hook. Soft rods are good for this. Whether you get glass or composite or graphite would be more personal preference I guess.