If I understand this corectly, you want a rod/reel for fishing halibut w/ a drift rig. Go with a 7' rod, my personal prefrence is the calstar 700L grafiter series. This will cost you between $115 (if you build it yourself) all the way to $200+ (if you get it custom wrapped). I recomend building it yourself, you can cut down on cost and you get exactlty what you want. For the reel I would recomend the diawa sealine series. The SL30 or SL40 would be excelent reels. Another choice is the penn gs series. I have a gs 535 on my 700L. Both of these reels are in the $120-$140 price range. So if you build the calstar it will be under $115 and the reel at $140 equals $255.