[JohnR]

This is about all I know about it but I heard from Mike Thomas and Mike from Bucko's confirmed it... Don't know how it was taken other than it was...

I was at M&Ds picking up a couple fishing things (Batson blanks: 1087,1088,1089 and associated guides, seats and butt tape, would have gotten more but there is a shortage of graphite fiber on the global market after Saltheart's last trip there). He aslo had some interesting Plasticized tape, similar if not the same to what is used on a lot of new Loomis rods. Kind of a black, almost rubberized sand paint, nice and grippy. I'll take a shot of it and put it up...

Then Bucko's confirmed this when I was picking up some more Smoothie Drag washers for my 6500 reels...