I'd never heard of Kastking till I read a guy really trashing them bad on the internet. Didn't figure anything could be that bad so looked the Rover 40 up on Amazon it was about $40, so I ordered it. Turns out the one I got is really nice so I ordered a small spinnng reel also. Worked out very well and now I have two low profile Kastking's, inexpensive models and I don't have one bad thing to say about them, very nice reels. Oh wait. they don't have full handle rods so I'm not getting one of those other things!