You are right, but I don't always use my bass rods on bass, sometimes I use
them on the Gulf of Mexico, I use my smallmouth rod to cast to bonefish &
troll for big rainbows and brown trout that can reach 20 lbs, but more
likely will be 5 to say 12 lbs on light line. More accurately I use my
bonefish rod on smallmouth and finesse LM sometimes. Have also caught a
steelhead and Coho salmon on it from time to time and one 25 lb Chinook.
Was just trying to give you a visual reference to the different materials
and the reasons they may cost more.
Have a 30 lb rated boat rod with Fuji BHVLG Hardloy guides on it for about
20 years now, caught lots of fish on it in Florida when I lived there and
oversized 100 plus lb sturgeon on it now, they are just fine and I've had 80
lb Western Tuf-Line on the reel for maybe 12 of those years, with no ill
effects.