I am very fortunate to be able to fish dozens and dozens of different rods each year and build hundreds more. I really like the Lamiglas Cert. Pro, they are very pretty rod (much prettier than Loomis)and they have great actions in most of the rods I have fished. I really like the 9'6" 6-15 Cert. Pro.
However... If I were in the market for a new rod and money wasn't the issue, it would be a Loomis. Loomis build a lighter,stronger, straigher rod. Bottomline.
The GL3 is lighter than the Cert. Pro. it is stronger (we do much more warranty work on Lamiglas rods than we do Loomis, and we sell more Loomis rods.) and the Loomis blanks are straighter for the mst part than Lamiglas. Now most people don't look that carefully to the blank and guide placement and guide wraps when they buy a factory rod, or they would never buy one but Loomis builds a better factory rod than Lamiglas. We build a much better rod than both of the,!
I do not work for either company!

Thanks for letting me play!

TH www.thcustomrods.com