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blogpost incoming
it came and then it dawned on me: i bought the single most hipster fly rod i possibly could possibly have. like, there's glass hipsters, there's tenkara hipsters, and then there's fast glass guys, reviving 70s technology.
that said, that's the only buyers remorse i have for it. i casted lines from air cel bass (a true to weight 8 weight line, fairly simple weight forward line) a 350 grain shooting head, and a 400 grain shooting head. the true to weight 8 weight definately didn't load the rod so it is absolutely a 9 weight with an 8 written on it, but that's what i've come to expect with most any 8 weight. that said, i had no issues pushing casts with reasonable accuracy out to 70 feet with the bass line and i could push 100 with the shooting heads, though with a lot of fighting with collapsed loops, realistic fishing distance would be 90 feet max. the action i think i could best described as partial progressive. with a little bit of line out of the rod, say casting 20 feet, the rod loads in the top 1/4, then as more line gets in the air the rod bends deeper, going to almost a moderate, with half the rod bending. despite this, the line doesn't seem to slow any and it throws amazingly tight loops in close. it feels awkward to use such a heavy rod to cast in close but somehow the fly always went right where i want it, so i really can't complain. on the topic of it being heavy i left the 400 grain shooting head on my 11/12 size redington behemoth and it seemed to balance the rod surprisingly well, and i plan on putting a 9/10 size behemoth on it to balance the heavy swing weight. definately likes a heavy agressive line, and i can't wait to get a fish on it
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