Steve - your going to have a hell of a time working a bucktail on most party boat rental rods I've seen.... Tips are way too firm to produce the bouncing action you need and poles much too heavy to work jigging all day. Can it be done, I guess but you'd be much better off with your Shimano bait runner braid set up if you want to bucktail.
As I'm writing this I can see it now...... 12 year old beats out Steve for the pool with a whitsle fish jigged on a rental rod
