Sorry for being gone so long.. all that late winter/ early spring steelie fishing is wearing me out.

Lets talk rods... in my opinion the best blank on the market is the Rainshadow blank. with our new pricing as of 4-2-02 you'll be able to get it for under $130 in the 1025 model. You can't find another rod with this quality for $130 anywhere!

Loomis makes a good rod, they always have, but... for years all we had to choose from was Loomis or Lamiglas.. Now we have choices, and for me its not worth the extra $100 to have a Loomis decal anymore. Every blank manufacture has to have a competive warranty, must use high end compoents etc. They are all good.
But.. the Rainshadow blank is straighter, has fewer cosmetic flaws, very sensitive and is priced way under the other rods.. plus you can only get one if you build it yourself of have someone build it for you, which is going to give you a better built rod.

51 million modulus blanks from Rainshadow... probably the end of the summer. They should be as light and sensitive as anything on the market! IMX, Lamiglas Ti etc. and again have the RAinshadow quaity behind them.

As for guides, I have never seen braided line chew up a hailoy guide... but with the cost of SicTi guides so cheap these days, its worth $20 extra dollars to have them.

Please check out our new pricing on Rainshadow rods.. you will be shocked! Batson Ent. has really done some wondeful things with their product development and pricing and lead the industry in customer service!! Great people!

We now have choices.. and aren't required to spend $250 on a high end rod... thank goodness.