Always used Lamiglass combined with Abu Garcia 6500's till a few years ago, started breaking too often for me under the pressure of repeated Kings and other Salmon, yea they got a great replacement policy, they have too- cause if they didn't who would buy another one. Any small scrape or nick and they explode. I have two left and all other boat rods are: Ugly Sticks Lite, always been a good decent rod, without worry, reason why I would always have one on board as a back up. Those back ups began being used more than the primaries, so I made a switch about three years ago and haven't had a bad experiance. Traded one in for three Ugly Sticks... at a small store in Anchorage called B & J Commerical. Fly rod is still Lamiglass... Might switch to another high quality rod set-up now that I got a bigger boat for storage and doing less combo fishing/hunting trips in this state...