Brand Loyalty?

[MK49]

It's more brand "trust" for me, and over the years the list of brands I trust has grown and a couple have fallen off the list. Lost faith in modern Penn and Ambassadors mostly. I still have, use, and love some older stuff from both of them though. I've also picked up Quantum and Okuma spinners that are cool.

Yeah, I guess it's "trust". As I said in the first post, I've been using Daiwa baitcaster for over 40yrs, and I do feel safe to buy Daiwa reels. I have a few Daiwa reels that didn't meet my expectation, but that's less than 10% of Daiwa that I've bought.

[rubs96]

I used to think I had to be I tried to keep all my rods a certain brand and all my reels the same brand and got rid of anything that didn’t fit those groups. I grew out of that once I started working at a tackle shop.

My favourite reel of all time is my Abu Garcia Eon. I love the look of the Ardent XS1000 and used to dream of owing one and now own three. Used one and the C400 just the other day

I have a bit of everything now: rods from Abu PLX to NRX, and reels from Shimano Sienna to Stella. I like to try a bit of everything now.