A few years back my kids bought me an Echo rod for Christmas. Second time using it and the tip breaks off. I hadn't done anything different than the hundreds of other times I've fly fished and never broke a rod.
Contacted Echo and they had me scrape the name off the broken rod and send a picture.
A month later I call to see where my new rod is and guess what? They don't make that rod any more. They then sent me the next model up in line, with the closest sizing they had. 8' replacing an 8'6" 4wt
Lots of optic companies offer no fault warranty as well. That's why Vortex are the greatest!
