WINSTON IM6 FLY ROD REVIEW SERIES
I won an original Scott G Series 3-weight, two-piece fly rod at a charity auction, years ago.
WINSTON IM6 FLY ROD REVIEW HOW TO
GLX is the graphite recipe that added distance to the cast, in saltwater and freshwater, and if you know how to handle a GLX rod, the accuracy and distance factors still cannot be replicated, no matter what you throw. By modern standards, the original GLX models seem a bit “tippy” for many anglers, but the spine and punch factors were (and still are) impossible to ignore. When G.Loomis developed GLX, the graphite world shifted forever. This is really the rod that changed everything. This is the rod that taught me to cast, and I still fish it in a variety of situations, east and west. It’s still an honest rod, with plenty of backbone and casting punch. It’s still a steady performer not too fast, by modern standards, but not sluggish by any means. The Sage RPL is the model that got many anglers thinking and feeling beyond anything Orvis had to offer. Blew my mind at the time, but I bit the bullet. The sticker shock hit both of us-over $350 for a fly rod.
I remember begging and pleading with my wife to let me buy a Sage RPL, some 20 years ago. If you can find one of these on EBay, sold second-hand, at a garage sale, or maybe have one willed to you by its former owner-hang onto it. And there’s still inherent beauty in some fly rods that cost a whopping $350, or $450 when they were introduced back in the day. It’s like driving a classic Ford Mustang, Chevy Corvette, or even a Jeep CJ-7. No matter what anyone tells you, fly rods have not, in fact, evolved at the same techno-pace as things like digital cameras, laptop computers, and cell phones.Ī rod is still a rod, and in some cases, some graphite “classics” still have a look and feel that cannot be replaced, even by the very manufacturers that shelved these models in favor of the “faster, lighter” brands they replaced them with. In marketing-speak, we’ve been through so much “next generation” graphite hype in the last 20 years that, if you actually buy the hyperbole, you might just think a rod made in the mid-1990s is virtually unfishable.
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