Sage fly rod durability question
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Clark – I can’t believe you haven’t had a kingfish blow up a rod yet.
No mate, keep the fight in the butt and it would take a lot of angler error and a very wild fish to bust the rod before the tippet.
They try their best though… This guy had my Xi2 under the boat for a while as he headed for the anchor line… but still would have had to have come into contact with the hull or something to break it.
Clark, Nice fish! Can’t image that beast on Fly…keep them coming!! 😀
Good work!Hmm interesting
All rods break… don’t they?. I havn’t seen a rod yet that can manage a car door or some dude stepping on it.
Mike, anecdotally I havn’t heard of any of the newer graphite sages busting for any fishing reasons than normal. Clousering, high sticking, angler error. The Nti redington on the other hand was one that I have had some first hand and plenty of second hand experience of “unusual?” and “regular” breakages. It was really thin and made with graphite I believe for lightness but a bit fragile. I don’t think the 5th generation sages have that issue. Perhaps they solved it? ::) 😉One of my guide friends in Alaska has returned all of his “other brand” rods due to what he believed was a design fault with that model. Every rod broke in the same place and he had a tough time getting them fixed. he broke 6 this last season.
I suppose luckily sage rods come with a really good guarantee eh? 🙂
Well said! Simon
We are waiting for your salmon pictures!
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