Wanting some reviews on Team Allstar Rods- if anyone has tried them, what do you think???

That is all I fish with if that tells you anything.  I can usually catch them on sale at Dick's or Academy for around $70 a couple of times a year and the rods are the best value for the money in my opinion.  There are better rods but you will pay much more for them.

Haven't heard anything bad about these rods. Many people on this forum are high on them. I have an All Star Platinum casting rod that is great, but I would probably recommend buying a used st. croix avid.

I have several team All Star IM10 rods - a 6'6" MH "worm rod" and a 6'8" MH "spinnerbait rod."  I really, really like them.  They are very sensitive, adequately light, and super tough.  I like my 6'8" best.  It's a good all-around rod.  I've used it for spinnerbaits, plastics, light to medium jigs, light swimbaits, big cranks, and big jerkbaits.  It's not perfect for all these techniques, but it will perform them very adequately.  If I had only one baitcast rod, this would be it.

I also have five All Star American Classic rods.  These are very nearly as light and sensitve, but they feel a lot tougher and mine perform tremendously.  

Once thing - I would recommend buying a Team All Star off the shelf.  Recently I've noticed some flaws that must be manufacturer flaws.  I've noticed an guide foot that wasn't wrapped completely, some bent guides, and one guide with an eye completely glued over so the line would not pass through.

a friend of mine has been using them for the past couple years & he really likes them...

I have two and I am very pleased. Both are model  TAS-826C.

I use them for worm and jig. Granted I have not fished with a $200 + rod, I am very pleased with their weight, sensitivity, and ability to bring a fish to the boat/shore.

I never heard anyone say anything bad about them BUT ! i bought one a few years ago the first fish that i caught on it ( about a 1lb bass)

the rod snapped about 3" from the tip. I hav had ove 100 rods in my life and that was the ONLY rod that ever broke fighting a fish. (i have broken others in car doors and stuff like that)  I haven't fished one since.

Every company lets one "slip by."  And sometimes they get handled pretty roughly by the retailer.  I've broken a Fenwick HMG.  But I've never busted an All Star.  If I had to buy a "tough rod," I'd look at All Star first.  My American Classics are tank-tough.  

Have several All-Star rods and like them.  I get mine at Academy and if you have a problem, take it back and get another.  I use any rod/reel Academy sells because I know if I have a problem or just don't like it, take it back and they say "get another one".

didnt they get bought out a year or so ago by like zebco or something? Just didnt change the name.

didnt they get bought out a year or so ago by like zebco or something? Just didnt change the name.

No. They were bought by Shakespeare some time agao, which itself was bought by Jarden Corp. Jarden also owned Pure Fishing, which owns Berkely, Stren, Abu Garcia, among other. Shakespeare and All Star appear to have bene separated and both placed under the control of Pure Fishing.

Pure Fishing now owns:

Berkely

Abu Garcia

Fenwick

Stren

Shakespeare

Penn

Pflueger

All Star

xTools

Mitchell

Johnson

Spider

7Strand

Since Pure Fising would have had a virtual monopoly on fishing line, it had to sell off Shakespeare's fishing line division to Zebco (though it still has Ugly Braid).

That's where things stand as of this moment.  Things may change again by noon.