re: Waterloo Rods

Most all rod components are now made in China for all rods. You often see on eBay or amazon a bunch of really nice looking reels with good specks that look a lot like your shimano etc with a Chinese name. Some of these are shitty knock offs but often they are the actual parts of good reels that are assembled and labeled in other countries for import tax reasons etc and just assembled instead in China. If you get anything made there you know in advance they are going to do that