The yellow rods were everywhere at the 2010 Bassmaster Classic. It seemed that every direction scanned, there was a black and yellow rod sticking up out of someone’s bag, cart, hand or on an end cap for sale. The common perception was that at an $89 price point, an angler won’t be to mad if a rod isn’t up to all the hype. Well, that intrigued us into doing some on-the-water testing of the rods.