Quote Originally Posted by Alphahawk View Post
JDM UL rods have caught on all over the world but not so much in the USA. I don’t know why that is.
Two reasons, IMO:

1) Price - Foreign tackle tends to be expensive, and most won't pay the higher prices. Fly fishermen will mortgage their homes to buy a new rod. To a lesser extent, so will many bass guys. For everybody else ... not so much.

2) It's too "foreign". For example, the Europeans are the best float fishermen in the world. They have a float for every possible condition and make the floats sold in the US look like kids' toys. But ... they look different and have funny names like "waggler", so almost nobody fishes with them. Go figure.

That being said, thanks for the excellent write up.