I was recently told that Loomis was bought out by shimano and there cust servive has kinda sliped downhill. When little companies sell out to big ones it is true that their cust service becomes less personable at least thats my experience. I dont know which is better I fish the lami 1000 series and have hade very minor problems and they have fixed them very promply and also you can get 2 lamie 1000's at the emporuim for the price for 1 GL3 to me thats a better deal all the way around.
Ed