Steve Dally
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I looked specifically after experiences with the zero g, i thought the 6.5 i cast in denver the year before was a dog (apparently so did orvis who admitted to problems with it in 07) compared to the 9.5
but to my recollection the rod i cast, felt more tippy than the z or the bii, and id been casting bii and bii mxs an hour before. but it was the end of the show and my brainwas tired.
I must go and play with them some more, real shop floor models 🙂
oh and sorry neal i thought i read mike on the post lol
cheersWhat flex rating did you cast Mike.
I cast a 6.5 Helios 5wt in Denver in September and stiffer than a ZAxis. Way faster than I was expecting and in fact I wrote at the time I thought it would scare a lot of traditional Orvis users.LOL.
In fact I wondered if it had been mislabelled and was actually a 9.5.Nice rods, I got to play with a prototype the previous year 🙂 it was a cannon too,.
Ok has anyone else had a “server busy” message when trying to post the past few days. had a hell of a time tryin gto get this or any other post on the board.
even a simple Gday to my Kiwi mate simon
so that is why this is on its own, whenactually it was meant to be, and fianlly became a post in the rod action thread.
oopsbut i did enjoy the responses 🙂
lol carter your such a cynic,
I own $675 rods and $75 rods and fish ’em both lol
im also really wantsAfter 7 years of casting lots of rods and trying to come up with reviews and words to describe them, Ive come to a few conclusions. We actually don’t have the language to do it, and it doesn’t really matter.
What the rod designers/engineers (pretty much every company has 1 or each to do the job of making a rod) use is basically useless to those outside the company/fraternity. Generally they are using their own company standards, as opposed to comparing to other brands, ie winston fast isn’t sage fast.
The rest of us mere mortals, even professional rod testers, battle for the terminology to describe what we are feeling. A lot of FF, including the initial poster, really want a definitive way of comparing rods.
Which is why you got the CCS system, did I spell that right, its an engineers system which puts me to sleep anytime it pops up on the screen.My mother happened to be a wine buff, a serious taster, so I got to hang around that crowd a lot (drank some great wines) but Im no serious taster (swiller might be a better term). But
Guys, I normally don’t post outright commercials but this week I dug out a bunch of our Gudebrod odd and ends, cleaning up stuff for our move next month.
Anyway to get rid of the Guebrod we are cleaning it out via our EBAY store
http://stores.ebay.com/mountain-river-fly-shop, limited colors numbers 3/0; 6/0; 8/0 and 10/0.We will be putting more on every day over the next week. Sorry I don’t have a full list, we really were trying just to clear it.
Anyway hope it helps.
Personally Ive switched over pretty much primarily to UTC over the last few years, once you get the thread tension/amound of twist you need its superb and more and more colors coming in I even use it in place of floss.
Cheers
SteveI can only say cast it and you will find out mate.
Plus there aren’t too many short rods in this sort of weight category. St Croix used to make one hasn’t got the butt strength this has.
Soft tip, stiff butt, what these rods the short 6 and 8, were designed for is exactly what we have been talking about, tossing relatvely heavy flies short distances accurately in tight confines, mangroves small streams etc etc. Still has the same response time of the Xs but very different taper
The original product design parameters came from backcountry mangrove snook fishers, and some smallstream steelheaders. I got to cast a prototype in Arlington TX Fly Fishign Show a couple of years back as the first rods were headign to these shores. My first question, for our market here in the ozarks was great rod but does it come in a small mouth 6.
Rick Pope turned around and said its on its way. I ordered them straight up, took them to the Smallmouth Rendezvous in Tahlequah Ok that year and the guys loved them after we were tossing 6″ loops underneath pickups and SUVs.
So you migth say its one of my favorites.
Cheers
StevePatrick, you would be right if the 7’6″ was a scaled down 9’er. Very different rods however
Significantly different action, Load the short rods with a Clouser line and lots of in close performance. Definately not as stiff through teh upper part of the rod. I’m not going to use it for tossing 20 midges on a spring creek but its not designed for that.
Designed for small creek smallmouth, and mangrove fishing.
I own the 9′ 8wt, fished the 9’5 wt a lot and spent a lot of time doing demos with the short and long rods in this series.
Its a diversion but it shows how different rods in a particular model (TiCRX) can be.
Cheers.
SteveY’all need to discover real beer
Not Real Beer
Real Beer
I used to have a taste for expensive whisky and cheap women but mywife cured me of both
Ok I love both the TiCRX 7’6″ rods, the 8wt I think is the sweetest rod TFO have made, and the 6 is very good also. Although I have to say the new 9’4wt X rod is a gem as well.
Anyway back to the shorties. Their casting action bears very little resemblance to the 9′ rods, except in the butt. Softer tips work very well but plenty of power for handling Whitlock and other Crawdads, clousers etc. Very accurate, lots of fun pitching flies under overhangs, very nice.
I reckon its a great small stream smallie rod, or if you have wondered about tossing streamers for fall trout in deepish, overgrown streams.
Do yourself a favor and cast them.
Cheers
SteveMoose here you go Jan 4, 5 & 6.
AFFTA Show
http://www.theflyfishingexpo.com/The FlyFishing Show West
http://www.flyfishingshowwest.com/Kinda silly having two consumer shows, both sides having drawn lawyers over “celebrity” attendees.
We were looking hard at coming out to exhibit at the FF Show, when it was the only game in town, anyway we are sitting it out and see what happens this year rather than blowing our dough picking the wrong one.
besides we have enough headaches moving into our new shop lolMorsie are you doing the January consumer Shows or coming out in September for the Trade Show. More fishing on offer in the US in September LOl
And my offer of some fishing still stands if you can tear yourself from the steelies lol!
Cheers
SteveHey Zach,
I think a bit of what you were experiencing was lake turnover, its been a little cloudy for tha past 3 weeks. Earlier it was fishing niceI shoudl have added that yes I did getmy fingers smacked for poaching that missing bit of skin.
Wet sorry you hear about your Nan, the 4 types of meats sounded good.
Chook, Ham and what else was her preference.The past few years we slipped over to the modern Aussie Christmas, Tassie crayfish, Qld prawns, oysters etc etc.
DA I miss real roast potatoes _ backyard cricket afterward, the Boxing Day test and Sydney-Hobart.
Bugger Im getting homesick again! Was roaming on YouTube last night and found this classic anthem,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ4Lbn_t5dk
brought back a lot of memories beaches, beer, bikinis and watching these guys farewell gig in Hobart.Cheers
Oh man sushi, I tell you its hard for an island boy to be living 1100 miles from the ocean.
Still the finest sushi Ive eaten anywhere was the Orizuri on the docks in Hobart _ they were part of an operation that had its own fishing fleet _ hard to go wrong when your eating that fresh.First time i ever ate sashimi was diving on a remote reef off the east, hangover make you hungryso we just filleted our catch and pigged out. Then
Yeh I have, Ive played with quite a few.
The thing Ive found with rubber v mesh over the last few years is rubber has way way way more drag, if you are trying to net hot fish fast, particularly in fast water.Might be fine if you wear them down fast, but I want to net them asap. Fast hands fast net 😉
Cheers
