Just wanted to give a heads up to everyone. After noticing that the XMG50 bass rods were removed from the lamiglas webpage, I made a call to them. The XMG bass blanks are going to be discontinued. They said they will continue to do the salmon and steelhead rods, but the bass line will be nomore!

Well that stinks. I liked them.

Thanks for the head's up Mitch.

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DANG IT!!! I LOVE THOSE BLANKS!!!!!!

UNBELIEVABLE....you find a high quality, reasonably priced , extremely useful blank...and then its gone



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/27/2010 04:17PM by Wes Weaver.

Go figure. First the Tri-Flex series I used for exclusively for tarpon, now the XMG series I used for occasionally for inshore. Not long ago, they whacked some really neat fly blanks as well. It is obvious the changes are to align their blank offering with finished rods, understandable but painful nonetheless.

The good news is that other manufacturers will fill the gap. The other good news is that a trip to High Point in February is even more necessary to find those replacements.

TRi-flex is no more???? Or is that just a certain model or 3?

Russ in Hollywood, FL.

Russell Brunt Wrote:
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> TRi-flex is no more???? Or is that just a certain
> model or 3?


They have a few 7'0" models which do me no good at all. I used the 7'8" and 8'0" models to allow proper reach around the boat hull/motors and for better directional control of the poon. ALL of the Texaliums are toast.

A little mouse told me that Billy Vivona was busy at work in his laboratory designing new Seeker Hercules models to compensate for the loss of the longer Tri-Flex blanks. Who knows, he might even be willing to drag some to the ICRBE for "show and tell".

Jim -

I suspect with the new blank technology, they will be offering new series to replace HMG50 and others.

Russell Brunt Wrote:
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> TRi-flex is no more???? Or is that just a certain
> model or 3?

The 2011 catalog lists several triflex models. The surf model goes up to 10' 6".

Don

Don Becker

Hopefully if they bring out something new, it will be just as nice as the current offering or nicer and remain somewhere close to that price point! For the price they sure are hard to beat for certain applications.

Tom

Here is a list of the models that they sent us last week that were removed.

GME 150 2MH-F
GME 150 2MH-MF
GME 150 2MH-M
GME 156 2MH-F
GME 156 2MH-MF
GME 156 2MH-M
GME 162 2MH-F
GME 162 2MH-MF
GME 162 2MH-M
GO 126 2
I 655 H
I 665
I 665 H
I 270
I 870
LMB 843
LMB 845
LMB 864
ICG 98 2DR
ICG 102 2MH
ICG 105 2MH
ICG 108 2DR


Other than the funky variable length handle jobs (GME's) and the 3 XMG Mag Bass Models it looks like the rest are import models.

Todd

Regards,
Todd Vivian
Mud Hole Custom Tackle

todd@mudhole.com

That's terrible news. I have several guys, including myself that absolutely love the LMB 864 for fishing jigs. Maybe I can find a few to stash away for a rainy day.

Back in April at the get together at Lamiglas, Josh stated they were working on using a new product that would probably be out in 2011. this could be some of those that are being replace. Remember in any business you can not get stagnate with any product, you always have improvements to make or someone is going to bypass you. Most improvements are for the better. As for costs, every thing has endured a price increase. For us in WA. gas and electricity is out of sight. This is a hidden cost all manufactures have to incorporate into a product cost.

Good Wraps Bob

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Get them while you can. Looks like the International import blanks are toast, and some or all of the XMG 50 blanks for bass. The the top end XMG 50 bass blanks are being upgraded to a new material. I've seen 3 models of the XMG 50 bass blanks listed already, the LMB 843, 845 and the 864.