Youre competing with wages in China
Related to the reason that I don't wear any sort of fashionable gear (and almost try to look as fashionably terrible as possible out on the trail)
This particularly applies to classics made of wood, rods, reels, wicker creels, anything from grandpas or even Dads tackle boxes, especially if they are clean, better yet, still in boxes, like old baseball cards
Light Duty set-ups being a Fuego LT 2500 with a Medium Power Rod, and an Aluminum Reel like a BG matched with a MH Rod)
This is a preemptive defence because there is another new platform coming to the market in the future, and you could get hit with another enormous review next year The reel reviewed today is quite unusual in terms of production life
Tie the end of your line to a solid post or tree, walk back until there's a lot of tension, and then wind the line back onto the reel while walking towards the tree