not only does skeet use em but brent chapmen won angler of the year with them beforefor the money you can't beat'em. plus they ARE!! the same exact rods that skeet uses on tour, there's no difference at all. lets put it this way, I used to use the BPS extreme series rods, they're $100 rods, my extreme spinnerbait rod broke, so I bought the slkeet reese tessera spinnerbait/worm baitcast rod for $89.99. the first time I used it I was blown away because while using a double willow leaf spinnerbait I could feel BOTH blades churning in the water, I never felt that with my extreme rods I usually could only feel the bigger willow leaf blade churning. after that I started replacing my other extreme rods after they broke with skeet rods, I now own an s-glass crankbait rod(which is incredible BTW), my tessera spinnerbait/worm rod, and a tessera jerkbait/topwater rod. I still have 2 extreme rods left, my spinning rod, and my swimbait rod, when those 2 rods happen to break, they're getting replaced with skeet reese rods. they are the ONLY rods I'll buy from now on