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"I prefer a tip action rod against an all through action which i find sloppy with crap control"
I prefer a progressive action with a moderate tip. I don't typically need to cast beyond 45 ft. After that, mending becomes a chore plus when throwing a dry/nymph combo I'd rather have a more open loop.
I work for Gary Loomis. Not his former company, G. Loomis (owned by Shimano) but the man himself. His office is ten feet from my desk. He long ago left G. Loomis and has formed two new companies, North Fork Composites LLC (a blank company) and EDGE Rods.
We just started building rods last December although we've been building blanks for the custom rod market now for about four years. This will be Gary's fifth rod company and I've met nobody with such a grasp on the three key components of rod-building- material, design and production.
So far our focus has been on steelhead and salmon rods because of the winter steelhead and spring chinook runs. Lightest, most sensitive rods on the market. We use an amazing high modulus graphite, refuse to coat our blanks and employ minimal guides. All designed to reduce weight that otherwise unnecessarily impedes performance. We've just completed a blank production run for 9' four-piece 5wt fast-action flyrods. Action is progressive through the blank but speeds in the tip section. We'll be building those out as our first flyrod offerings.
I own two Sage VPS series rods from the early 2000s and a few others (including a bamboo from 1947). The Sage rods are nice enough but gather dust now. Don't load the way I prefer. Something I didn't realize until casting some of our prototypes. It proved to me that you've really got to cast a number of rods to properly feel each action and understand it. Without doing so, you don't know what you might be missing.
"I prefer a tip action rod against an all through action which i find sloppy with crap control"
I prefer a progressive action with a moderate tip. I don't typically need to cast beyond 45 ft. After that, mending becomes a chore plus when throwing a dry/nymph combo I'd rather have a more open loop.
I work for Gary Loomis. Not his former company, G. Loomis (owned by Shimano) but the man himself. His office is ten feet from my desk. He long ago left G. Loomis and has formed two new companies, North Fork Composites LLC (a blank company) and EDGE Rods.
We just started building rods last December although we've been building blanks for the custom rod market now for about four years. This will be Gary's fifth rod company and I've met nobody with such a grasp on the three key components of rod-building- material, design and production.
So far our focus has been on steelhead and salmon rods because of the winter steelhead and spring chinook runs. Lightest, most sensitive rods on the market. We use an amazing high modulus graphite, refuse to coat our blanks and employ minimal guides. All designed to reduce weight that otherwise unnecessarily impedes performance. We've just completed a blank production run for 9' four-piece 5wt fast-action flyrods. Action is progressive through the blank but speeds in the tip section. We'll be building those out as our first flyrod offerings.
I own two Sage VPS series rods from the early 2000s and a few others (including a bamboo from 1947). The Sage rods are nice enough but gather dust now. Don't load the way I prefer. Something I didn't realize until casting some of our prototypes. It proved to me that you've really got to cast a number of rods to properly feel each action and understand it. Without doing so, you don't know what you might be missing.
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