What I Have
I'll just say it, "new trout fly rods don't do anything new." It's a stretch to say they provide new performance benefits that fly rods from twenty years ago didn't deliver for fly fishers. Is it fun to have a new trout stick? Sure, but it won't give you any advantages over older high-performance rods. Technology for fly rods peaked years ago, and rod companies can't go any lighter without losing the performance and feel we anglers demand in our fishing equipment. It's a physics thing. And, rod actions...yup, there isn't a taper or action that hasn't been designed and built for fly rods going back decades ago. There is nothing new in trout rods. Oh, a new rod series' aesthetics and action can be tweaked to look like something new is going on, but it will add nothing significantly new in the performance area...newly tweaked actions and flex profiles have already been done, often, through history. So, that begs the question, "why are...
