Anyone here build on the 6'10 mag light IM drop shot blank? Thoughts or feedback whether it be good or bad?

 

Have one on the way for a custom build that I am going to use for a finesse casting rod winter project.

I have one built as spinning.  I feel it's not powerful enough.  Every 14" smallie feels like a 5# fish.  It is fun when you do hook up with a 5#er though!

Thanks for the feedback. I bought one when they ran a 50% off sale. Other than fishing perhaps a bit lighter than you like do you feel they are good performers? 

Is what I am hearing about NFC, that their powers are lighter than labeled, true?

It's a good performer, I'd just like it better as a med-light, rather than mag-lite 

Really depends on the tackle weight and size you like to fish, I built some casting rods on the Mag Lt weight blanks G Loomis developed back in the early 80's with the same power and line weight of your blank. A 5 ft 10 inch version, the blank was the SJ700. Fished one of the Edge rods I think on your blank, the tip was not as fast as the SJ700 were, but only by a small bit, but the backbone seemed to still be there.

 One of the favorite blanks/rods of the trick caster Stan Fagerstrom, I used it for many years than sold it to a gentleman who retired to a house on the edge of a golf course and he fished the course's lakes for largemouth with it, last I heard 8+ lb. fish was his biggest, I caught smallmouth to 6+ on it, and it was a fantastic deep water crappy rod also.

Get Bit has that blank and 150+ more styles for 60% off. If you like the G Loomis IMX rods, you'll get similar results with the NFC IM. G Loomis makes a dropshot with same length, same power. I haven't looked at all the NFC blanks to compare, but some of the more classic G Loomis IMX blanks have the same exact dimensions as the comparable NFC blanks.

2 minutes ago, spoonplugger1 said:

Get Bit has that blank and 150+ more styles for 60% off. If you like the G Loomis IMX rods, you'll get similar results with the NFC IM. G Loomis makes a dropshot with same length, same power. I haven't looked at all the NFC blanks to compare, but some of the more classic G Loomis IMX blanks have the same exact dimensions as the comparable NFC blanks.

A day late and a dollar short. Oh well, the blank was ordered prior to the sale you posted as I had checked their prior to ordering directly from NFC when they had their 50% off sale.

 

I have used a few Kistler rods that are built the IM blanks and it seems like they fish a bit better than the original IMX series so I should be pretty happy overall I would think.

Good luck with the build. Post some photos when it's done!