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Had one for trout fishing seemed very stiff. It broke and never bought one again. I’ll stick to the cheaper brand names even shakespear is better in my book.
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Joined: Nov 2009
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Gary Loomis once said, "I can build a rod that'll never break, but you wouldn't want to fish it"
I'll take sensitivity and lightweight over ruggedness any day.
"243/85TSX It's as if the HAMMER OF THOR were wielded by CHUCK NORRIS himself, and a roundhouse kick thrown in for good measure."
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Joined: May 2005
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Back in the mid 80s Wright & McGill Co. stopped making fishing rod in the USA and became an importer. An engineer and I packed up the mandrels we were building on that catalog year and shipped them to China. I remember him telling me “W & M knew how to build an inexpensive rod but we didn't know how to build a cheap rod”. We gave up the higher end to Pflueger and St Croix, the low end to Shakespear and Zebco. There was no room for W & M to go but out.
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