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If you want the best quality look up Rosco. They are made in the USA, they are a manufacture that lots of other companies just buy and OEM or put on their lures. But they will sell to you direct in bulk. Probably not 100, but more like 1000 and it they are cheap to buy direct.

Those are some seriously ugly rods

Johnny is a pretty smart guy so I'm sure it was a good move. Makes a lot of sense with how close the companies were anyways. Now they can ship all on the same trucks to dealers, and they will instantly have a lot more dealers for Ranger / Triton / Startos is Bass Pro's sell them. Quality will be the same. What will be interesting to see is what happens with the whole FLW / Walmart thing.

Depends on the store I guess. The Bass Pro near me all the people in fishing know a ton. Most our tournament fisherman or guides. Gander on the other hand... I heard the guy at the counter tell a guy a navionics chip was for his computer and not a fish Finder.... A cabelas opened up a month ago too about an hour and a half away and no one there will even say hi to you.

When you watch tv and actually look at the lures KVD is throwing a Megasbass Vision 110 and a Lucky Craft Pointer a whole lot when he is using a Jerkbait.

No matter what the line of loomis rods is, you can get another brand rod that's better quality and more sensitive for half the money

The arrow rotates. You just turn it when you put the motor down so it's correct

It was sold like 6 months ago... And I thought Ken was still involved and ran or owned the manufacturing. I don't think much will change.

Used both. Don't own any more Shimano rods because of how many break. They have a great warranty but it's needed because I've never known anyone that hasn't broke one. Cashion is more sensitive and better quality. Some people don't like the grips or micro guides, but that's personal preference in my opinion.

I have a nice boat, thank you. You certainly missed the point.

I would be very surprised if there was any other boat like yours entered in the tournament. And I agree... I would be ticked if I was the coangler

BPS tubes are probably the best tubes of any brand out there. I like the creature baits like the bull hog and river bug. I still prefer a senko over a stiko but stikos are a lot cheaper and do work and have good colors. They have a new swimbait that looks like a Keitech that swims great too.

I don't like them because they use very cheap components and the blank is about the same as $50 rods

Yea Shimano started doing it a few years back. Too bad the new curados won't be out by then.... Or maybe they will be? Of you are lucky enough to have two bass pros near you it's worth a little bit longer drive to go to a bigger one that has a lot more in stock.

Anyone have any idea what's going on with Pradco??? They have basically no new products this year other than some variations of the yumbrella rig... But that seems like a pretty stale category these days. The regular yumbrella is on clearance everywhere. There's no new hard baits. Xcaliber seems to be dying off since Edwin Evers went to Megabass. The older brands like bomber, Smithwick, heddon etc have nothing new to compete with modern lures. F2 soft baits were a big flop and are constantly on sale everywhere yet don't sell... Do you think this company is dying? Big new things at the classic or Icast? Anyone know?