Well I tested out this rod for 5 hours and I got to say... It is much stiffer that I thought. Was a bit difficult to load even a 3oz bottle. 2 and 1/2 oz darters...poor. In fact this rod to me seems more suited to a rating 4-8 instead of a 2-6.
As a jigging rod -
No problem bouncing with 12" Sluggos with 5oz heads. If fact, this is a much better heavy jigging stick than a plug rod. Seems that if there was a sweet spot it would be 4oz or so IMO. 2oz is much too light for this thing. Didn't get a chance to fight any good fish on it (wish I had used it yesterday), but I'm sure it can handle any striper out there. It's a powerful beast, but not what I'm looking for. Have to agree with Hardbait on this one. Back it goes and the search continues...
Should also mention that I was not overly impressed with the Fuji Concept Guide System as it seemed to bottleneck my casts, but that's possibly due to the probs I had with the blank... or not.
Someone at the canal said that this rod was much stiffer than their 1 Piece SSU. The one piece I originally looked at also seemed much less stiff. Not sure what to think of that.