Introduction: Nearly twenty years ago, to the dismay of loyal fans and customers worldwide, legendary rod designer Gary Loomis began an exit plan from the fishing industry with the sale of his company, G.Loomis, to Shimano America Corporation. The story, including Gary Loomis's entire history of how he got into the rod industry, was expertly told by our good friend Terry Battisti in a two part article published on our site back in 2009.
The handle in the last photo looks like a wiebe handle. I have an older MBR843 GLX with the wiebe handle, IMO, one of the most comfortable handle. Very exciting stuff.
I hope they will have a model similar to the MBR-783-2C with a Weibe Handle.
Was planning to get the 783-2c this year but after reading this I had 2nd thoughts.
Exciting news. Can't wait to see where they decide to go with the guide layout and the offset handles.
Hopefully prices aren't too expensive (sub $350).
I'll hold judgement until I see the rods. I can say for sure that the blanks are the real deal but it always seems there's something about off-the-shelf rods that turns me off. My first hint from the article that I won't be buying one of these was "a mix of REC and Fuji K-Series guides." Maybe Cal could tell Gary that nobody wants Recoils
Ong Jim wrote:The handle in the last photo looks like a wiebe handle. I have an older MBR843 GLX with the wiebe handle, IMO, one of the most comfortable handle. Very exciting stuff.
Very cool.
But like thelatrobe33 said, the guides mentioned was a bit of a turn off. Just slap some stainless steel guides & sic inserts on there and call it a day. (But then again- who am I to tell someone like Gary loomis which components to use lol)
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