Thanks everyone for all your super input.

I gotta tell you tho I've been splitting a gut over one very ironic thing that has come out of all this. Seems I've been out of touch for a while. In a couple of other threads I've posted in tonight the Herzog name has popped up.

I ran with a Bill Herzog for a short time many eons ago. Awesome fisherman, born not made. Great guy who I have the upmost respect and esteem for as a fisherman and a person. And now I see a signiture "jig" rod with his name on it. We must be talkin about a different guy. The Bill I knew could find steelhead in the Sahara desert, but if told him all he could fish with was a jig and a bobber he would fly into a tirade and catch them barehanded first. The only way I could ever to get Bill riled was to suggest using a jig and bobber if things were slow. For Bill jig fishing was sacreligeous. Even back in the 70-80's we knew it was effective but for Bill it was the last straw.

Now to my way of thinking when someone is talking steelhead and Herzog in the same sentence there can only be one Herzog, and that's Bill. So pardon me if I seem like Rip Van Winle waking up from a many years nap to a world gone mad. To me it is the ultimate irony to hear of a "jig" rod with Herzog's name on it. Bill, are they goofin' on you the way I used to? Is this the ultimate misuse and perversion of the ideal drift & spoon rod? Say it isn't so Bill.

I just gotta get me one of these rods!