After seeing cray's Southern rods and his "demo" for Yikess, I was really impressed with them. I bought 4 of the 14 footers for myself and I've only used them for spider rigging so far. They're great in my book. I don't think these will have nearly the amount of tip breakage that we had with the BGJP's and, yes, it's still light enough to detect the bite on smaller fish too.