Bass Pro bought him out the old WM products are now Crappie Maxx but I guess Wally is going to be distributing his Wally Marshall products through other places I hear Walmart and others I love the tightline rods and talked to Wally last year when all this stuff started going down but he was tight lip sooo...I can only go with what I see playing out. I started going with Southern crappie rods @ southerncrappierods.com check them out there a cross between WM tightlines and BnM's cheaper to I won't be going back to the othes rods. Just what I know and my opinion.