g loomis fly rod closeout G. Asquith With the most advanced compound taper construction to date G. Loomis Fly Rods —

I wouldn't have expected in a million years that this $100 reel will have the same bearings as in Daiwa's and Shimano's cream of the crop reels, and I actually would have bet good money that I was going to find the Shanghai Mos Precision Bearings which are used extensively throughout the industry, sometimes even in reels costing up to $700

We are talking about billions of dollars that is lost to China if this market is closed out. Last year Congress passed the Maritime Security and Fisheries Enforcement Act, which threatens exactly that

The Reel Honestly, the reel itself is really nothing special

Shimano has developed a special graphite tape, called infinity tape, which is wrapped on the mandrel on a 45-degree axis

Archived from the original on 11 November 2013