When I first went to buy an AllStar, the guy at Ted's said don't do it, they had way too many come back broken and were going to quit selling them.

But I figured with the over ther counter return policy I couldn't go too wrong and bought one from Outdoor Emporium.

Well, I broke my AllStar 10' 6" float rod making a cast. I couldn't believe it just a casual pitch and it snapped in two.

Tried to do the over the counter thing and the store was out of that model and they were back ordered at the factory. After a month and a half of waiting I just returned it for store credit and upgraded to a lamiglas certified pro.

Never had one of my lamiglas rods break like that.