There were a lot of one star reviews, but I decided to chance it. Of course, like almost every rod shipped by pennoutlet.com, it came in beat up. I carefully, or so I thought, inspected rod and saw no problems. The rod was for my son and I didn't get it to him for a couple of months. When he was running the line through the eyelets, he noticed that one was popped loose from blank, as can be seen in pics. He builds rods as a hobby, occasionally, and said it looks like there is no thread, just epoxy. I would have expected the eyelet to have been bent over, as has happened in the past, due to bad packaging, but not popped loose from the blank. Not impressed for the price.

Have used the rod and works well. Very lite with good backbone. Only issue is that the picture shows a index finger foregrip which is what I really wanted but rod doesn't have that.

Hooked a nice 2# catfish with this rig. Hooked him using turkey skin. Lot of bend for the size of fish, not sure how,it holds up,with heavier catches but hopefully I,will find out.