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It would be the opposite for me. I need more strength to use a 12 than an 11 from any given family of rods. (That is, I'd find a Sage Method 12 harder to use than a Sage Method 11.)
Would the fiberglass manifesto an be and explanation for why there is little option for a fiberglass Spey rod? Or, is boron the purpose of a #4 rod that handles flyline two sizes up… Also, St. Croix now has carbon fiber rods of less than 9’ in leverage 🤔 I have made a glass Spey rod. It’s okay but ...
VGB wrote: ↑Sun Mar 24, 2024 11:42 am
Overlining is putting “ +1 or +2 higher lines on the same rod”. The reason I don’t like it for fishing purposes is that the heavier line spooks the fish.
You can always under-rod then. You won’t spook any fish that way.
Does an 8 wt carbon fiber rod bend less than a modern fiberglass rod cast the same distance with the same line, fly and loop? So, I'll try to answer this one from my own experience and from watching my students casting my glass rods (or their own.) My short answer is "it depends" ... :) S...
Can you share with me the FG blanks you like? The CTS I just bought was a custom build. Thank you Phil My favourites are the custom blanks I had made at CTS. I've made a few 8' single piece rods that were designed to be 10wt rods ("a few" because I made three for myself and several others...
Hi Phil, I think a glass rod with an 8 label will often bend more than a CF rod with an 8 label, but some of that is the expectation of the buyers being met by the makers. For some reason, many of the commercial rod makers like to make very bendy ‘glass rods because we want the “traditional ‘glass f...
I love my (many) glass rods but I’m not going to give up the carbon fibre ones. Horses for courses. PS - as a geologist, I strongly object to the implication that graphite has any place in a fly rod. It’s a truly amazing mineral, but it’s not noted for its tensile strength. Carbon fibre, on the othe...