The Interview with Steve Rajeff
On a chilly rainy September morning
Travis, Lyndsey, Mike and I headed out to Woodland Washington for a
tour of the G. Loomis factory. We had the day planned with tour,
video, casting demonstrations, lunch and a sit down meeting with our
reps to go over future planning and new ideas. While Rod building is
not new to me I was most excited about the tour. It takes a lot of
hands on skill to build rods and its evident G.Loomis is a well
assembled skilled workforce. I must include that the G. Loomis
facility is clean with an excellent layout and the paint booth is
something you would expect to find in an auto manufacturing plant.
But the real reward came for us at the end of the tour.
Steve Rajeff is the Chief Rod Designer of G. Loomis and he headed up
our tour. Steve’s name is synonymous with G. Loomis and if you’re
familiar with the name you probably know that Steve is a World
Champion Fly Caster. While I have been acquainted with Steve for
several years now I have never really known what drives him. One
question kept ringing in my head during the tour, How did Steve
come to be Chief Rod Designer? So when opportunity rang I
asked and what we witnessed the next five minutes I could not put
into words!
See it for yourself…Watch the video
Greg Darling - The Tormented Angler
Gorge Fly Shop Product Specialist
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