FISH & FLY WINSTON ARTICLE
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It might be just me…but I’ve seen quite a few people looking in different directions now for premium fly rods. This board is a perfect example that more and more people are asking about Scott fly rods and other high end builders and very seldom mention Winston fly rods in their questions or thread discussions.
I never liked Scotts in the past. In fact
ibook – re your comment that this is not exactly CNN Headline News, I actually saw a CNBC Power Lunch segment of Woody explaining his new business strategy at Winston.
No kidding? ;D Well, I better start quoting the Wall Street Journal in the future… 😎
Jay
Not being a caniac, the ‘boo decision at RLW doesn’t make a lot of difference to me. What mattered most was that period a couple of years ago when the higher-ups at Winston seemed to be on a cost-cutting spree so huge it had a lot of us wondering about the future of Winston.
Truth-be-told… it still does. The decision to go offshore for some of their rods bugged a lot of people, especially those of us who like tradition and like to buy American made goods when it makes sense.
The recent lack of standard reel seat choices and standard wood spacer choices still leaves me wondering how much money did they really save by scrimping and ‘compromising’ like that.
Don’t even get me going on their new ‘low-bidder’ rod tube caps! Whoever makes those needs a course in thread design!
All that said, those dang BIIx’s, despite what people want to believe, took the industry by storm and seem to have quite few few manufacturers playing catch-up to make a rod as light and flexible in range!Hey Jack –
I’d really like to see some actual sales figures to evaluate some of the rodmakers’ claims that their various rods “took the industry by storm.”
Zach, it seems to me darn near everyone owned an XP 2-3 years ago! In high-end rods I would expect that to be the #1 seller of all time. Good point you made about those other rods though. It very well could be the best seller is a Clearwater or the like.
ARflyangler, I agree on the Scott ‘G’ cosmetics! Understated yet perfect! My 3 weight stays here!
I won an 8′, 4 wt. ‘G’ and already had a Winston TMF of the same configuration. I looked both over, inch by inch, with a jewelers loup to look for flaws (long Michigan winters can have that effect!) Both were near perfect and both cast too much alike for me to keep both. The only reason I kept the TMF is because of the memories it held and the fact I could swap the new ‘G’ out for an S3 that I really needed.
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