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Originally Posted by Diggin Jiggin
I picked up the 10' stealth blank at the msba show but I have not built on it yet. I set it up a bunch of different ways, NGC, traditional, a blend of the 2. When I was test casting it, the sweet spot seemed to be down around 2.5 oz, but almost all my plugs (and there are a lot of them) are over 3. It could cast them but to me it felt overloaded and I'm curious if anyone else is throwing over 3 with it and what their impression is of it with plugs over 3 or 3.25. When I was test casting 3 1/4 ounce pencils my allstar 1145-2 which in some ways is a very similar rod, was outcasting the stealth by on average 10 cranks of my vs and I spent hours test casting it with 3 different guide layouts before deciding to go another route.
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I, or rather my girlfriend, has been using the 10 stealth for about a month now. The rod is extremely light, allowing her to get decent distance with smallish plugs. For her, the sweetspot is around 1-1/2. I used on MV throwing tins at Wasque and was surprised that it threw 4 but loved 3. I also threw plugs up to about 2-1/2 and it was fine. It really doesn't feel like it will launch large wind resistant plugs too well but I could be wrong. For bombers and small to midsize plugs and medium eels, it has performed very well.