Who Makes LL Bean Rods?

"Dave Martel" skrev i melding
et...
There's actually a misconception that's been going around for many years
about LL Bean rods. The *high end* rods are made by Loomis--true. But the
middle of the road rods were made (don't know if they still are or not) by
St. Croix. And the low-end rods are made in the Far East. Beans wants (for
obvious reasons) people to think that their rods are made by Loomis; but
many of them aren't. That, by the way, doesn't make them bad rods--just
not
Loomis rods.

Dave M
"sogs" wrote in message
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Anyone know?



My best buy ever fishing rod was a Kingfisher Black Habit #8-9 made in
Taiwan.
Baught it in 1982 and it still works fine.
As an extra bonus and to my surprise, the top fits perfect on my old (-92)
G.Loomis IMX 15' # 10-11, on which i broke the tip last year. Now the IMX
casts superbly with a #9 line.

- Richard
(from Northern Norway, the land of the Midnight Sun & Atlantic Salmon, and
pardon my English)