I recently found two old 7-foot medium heavy Penn Power Sticks with Penn 310 GTI reels in a garage sale. The rods cleaned up nice and I went completely through the reels and other than dried up grease and lots of grime they cleaned up like new and show hardly any wear or boat rash. The real seats and screw down locking rings on the rod handles are plastic and I wondered if it would be wise to use rod clamps as well for a stronger attachment. Do any of you use rod clamps on your catfish rods? I noticed that the reel frames have the slots on the bottom for attaching a reel clamp.