re: Texas Rod Company and other Texas/LA rod makers

You use to be able to get a built in Louisiana custom rod from Zook rods for $200 +/- depending on the style of rod. I personally have gone to the decent rod, decent reel realm on this. Most of my rods are inshore rods from Falcon, I even rock a couple of ugly sticks for bang around duty like soaking crabs for drum from the bank/beach. I find the falcons are 90% as good as the $200 rods on the shelf, if I wanted something more than $100 I would definitely go custom.