Recommendations on rod-reel pairing

Hello all,
I have been following these ultralight threads for a while now, but wanted to say hello and ask for opinions. Hey all.

I just dipped my toes into the JDM world and frankly, don't seem to know quite as much as I assumed. I might have purchased the wrong reel for my ultralight set-up and am hoping that I can simply swap since it is a nice reel regardless.

I have three light spinning rods and three spinning reels. I am not quite so certain that I made the best pairing.

Rod 1: St. Croix Panfish 8' Light ExF that I have been using for inline spinners. I find it too long for stream use, so mostly still water.
Rod 2: Tict Minimalism Liberte 6'2" XUL Fast travel rod (new this year). I am hoping to use it for shallow streams and general pond-fishing.
Rod 3: I will be replacing a St. Croix Eyecon 7'6" ML ExF rod with a GLoomis GLX drop-shot rod this spring. I use this for small bass primarily and it is also too long for streams.

Reel 1: Vanford F1000 (currently paired with StCroix Panfish)
Reel 2: Shimano Soare XR C2000-SSPG (the reel I thought would work with the Tict rod, but its heavier and slow)
Reel 3: Shimano Stradic Ci4+ 1000 size (currently paired with StCroix Eyecon and soon to pair with the Gloomis rod).

The Soare is 2g heavier than the Vanford, with a higher line capacity, but has a shallow spool, which might be what I want with the ultralight rod.

Any thoughts or ideas would be appreciated and here's looking forward to warmer fishing weather.

Greg

The Soare should mate up well with the Tict rod. It comes in at 155 gram...that's pretty good. The reel is slow but to me if you are going to work small plastics it would shine. Only issue I see is you may not like ratio.....not sure where you bought the reel but it might be hard getting them to exchange it.


Regards

Thanks, that does remove some of my worry. I purchased the reel from Digitaka and will probably keep it rather than try any sort of exchange. I've never used a reel this slow so I'll use it as a learning experience. Maybe, I'll throw some little plastic hellgrammites on a hook and drag those.