hey chuck, i'm not putting allstar rods down, but i won't put them on a pedistal, their customer service was (in my experinece) very bad...

they made/built some very nice rods, but when the guy at academy told me to go by there office and they'd take care of it i was very disapointed with there response, later i met billy kistler and he had branched off from allstar to build castaway rods, i have broke some of those also[:-][&o], and recieved replacements W/O question, now castaway has been bought by pradco i think, they are, as far as i know still good rods, but i haven't bought any lately, but i have said it before and i'll say it again, billy and trey are two of the finest people you'd ever wan't to meet, visit their website i think you'll be impressed.

http://www.kistlerrods.com/fishing-rod/subdisplaya.10.10.0.0.0.0.html

hey chuck read what trey has to say on this page, truely inspiring