Your rods to go

[Jack Cummings]

Roll your eyes all you want, its not going to change my opinion though.

Don’t want or need to.

[Carter Simcoe]

well don’t use this little guy then:

[Jack Cummings]

Having cast, examined and used a good sampling of the rods you mentioned, I did indeed roll my eyes.
I’m just not going to even try and convince you why since you already said it is but your opinion.

[Carter Simcoe]

You do your thing and I’ll do mine Jackster, but I don’t know why we need to be publicly rolling our eyes at others around here.

[Bob Riggins]

Carter,

The rod was built on a St. Croix SCii blank.

[Carter Simcoe]

Thanks Dunfly, I’ve been thinking about doing this for a while now and thats all very enlightening.

[malcolm robertson]

Jack,
I kind of like your taste in rods.

[Zach Matthews]

I’ve been out of pocket with Christmas guys, sorry I didn’t get to this earlier.

[Phil Landry]

[Corey Kruitbosch]

Loomis GLX 9′ – 4wt … Great rod!

I picked up a 9′ 3wt XP when they went on sale a couple of months ago, I expected it to have a ‘lighter’ feel … I think I’ll need to throw some dries with it this summer to make up my mind.

[Anonymous]

8′ 4wt. Scott V2 (trout and panfish)
9′ 5wt. Scott V2 (trout and smallmouth)
9′ 8wt. Scott V2 (bass and striper)
(Found a good deal on the Scott’s a while back and I love ’em!

[Andrew Barclay]

Small streams: 6′ Banty that throws a

[lars]

I usually fish small to medium trout-streams here in norway, and my rods to go is Scott G2 8’8 #5, Sage SP 490 & Loop Yellowline 8’8 #3 (scandinavian as i am)

[Cameron Mortenson]

Hey…could you post a few photographs of the Loop Yellowline.

[Steve K.]

Small streams: 4 wt 7′ 6″ bamboo (McKenzie taper/Mike Brooks blank)
Medium Streams: Winston LT5 5-weight
Large Rivers: still use the Winston LT5 5-weight
Saltwater: Diamondback 8 weight? 3-piece 9 foot
…..and no “eye-rolling” please

[lars]

Hey…could you post a few photographs of the Loop Yellowline.  I’ve thought for a couple of years now that series is pretty sharp.  The spey rods are pretty well spoken of I believe.  Loop rods are still hard to come by in the USA.

I’m afraid i don’t have any good pictures of my yellowline rods at the moment, but here is one !
These are lovely spey-rods, and very soft ! My G2 rod almost feels stiff compared to the yellowline  😕
I guess the warm yellow color has scared lots of fishermen from even trying these rods  ;D
The finish ain’t quite as good as the top americanmade rods, but they are great fishing-tools for those who prefer a calm, harmonic action !
Only thing is they were only aviable as 3-pieces !
This colorline-series (greyline,greenline,yellowline,blueline & blackline) was discounted by Loop last year, and have now been replaced with the Multi & Opti series !
I really like the new Opti rods, but the price is IMO way too stiff for an asian-made rod !

[Jack Cummings]

Let me add two more, Winston BIIx 6 weight. One heck of a rod that can easily act as a 5-6-7 weight and throw dries, streamers and most bass bugs equally well.
Loomis GLX 9 weight. ‘Nuff said.

[Zach Matthews]

Hey Lars –

Sweet Loop.

[Joel Thompson]

I like my Winston BIIx 9′ 4wt for streams and dry fly fishing and my Sage XP 9′ 5wt for everything else.

[lars]

As an aside, I’ve been drooling over the Greyline two-handers (“Spey Rods” in American parlance) for several years.  They are, in my opinion, the best looking spey rods on the market with the possible exception of the Winstons.  No one in the spey world has caught on to the fact that trout fishermen are the ones who buy pretty rods and made a pretty trout spey yet, but I’m expecting someone will some day.

The Greyline speyrods are truly good lookin, along with some of G.Loomis new spey rods, not to mention CF Burkheimers

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