I recently found a rod stashed away and forgot about, it was one of my very first baitcasting rods I purchased probably 13 or 14 years ago by "ANDE". it's a 7' medium power rod "tournament inshore", and on closer inspection I was surprised to see it actually has a fuji reel seat and fuji guides with the old grey ceramic inserts or whatever material it was. Back then in my early baitcasting days, I never paid a lot of money for a rod, probably 30 - 50 dollars at most. At that price range I would never expect to see fuji components used, but maybe 15+ years ago that was more the case? I tried looking around online about these rods or videos but nothing is really out there that I could find. Does anyone have experience with this company and their products? 

TackleDirect lists these four model lines - pretty much all offshore applications and inexpensive, especially for that niche. 

https://www.tackledirect.com/rods.html#/filter:manufacturer:Ande

No mention of Fuji components, but aluminum oxide guide inserts. 

I may be completely wrong, but I felt like those were made for Ande by Folsom or Tsunami at the time.  

17 minutes ago, MAN said:

I may be completely wrong, but I felt like those were made for Ande by Folsom or Tsunami at the time.  

Oh, is that possibly why they were made with fuji components? 

21 hours ago, BassSteve said:

Oh, is that possibly why they were made with fuji components? 

Thats not uncommon at all back then for a $50 rod to have the basic Fuji Aluminum Oxide guides in them. Back then a full set was only about $2 manufactures cost. 

13 minutes ago, MAN said:

Thats not uncommon at all back then for a $50 rod to have the basic Fuji Aluminum Oxide guides in them. Back then a full set was only about $2 manufactures cost. 

Oh OK thanks for the info ? lol I doubt today you can get a rod with fuji guides and fuji reel seat for $50 ? ah the good old days