LV,

I have not used any spoons with the RF. I find the sweet spot on that rod to be a 1 gram jighead which is what I throw the vast majority of the time. I know you guys like throwing spoons on rods with quite a bit of flex as do the Japanese apparently but I myself prefer a little more backbone to my spoon throwing rods but I also do not own any Japanese spoons yet and mostly throw 1/4oz spoons for larger trout. RF is a sweet rod for throwing small offerings and twitching like Randy and I like to do. I hope this helps