When I decided to test this rod, I was attracted especially by his features, a lot in truth, if we consider the average selling price of this rod: 189-220 dollars: fishing butt, entire anti corrosion reel seat, good finishes and strippings, a real cool black cordura rod tube and a really charm ochra yellow rod sock... last but not least the total warranty for the rod attached in to an apposite window externally on the rod tube.
In my experience in addition, I always remember my first master that was a real lover of Fenwick (I have to say, my mind always is attracted and I mostly love in general Sage rods, as a sort of "Olympus"), he had several 9 foot rods and I personally tested them, I owned also the 10 foot 7 weight line and some Iron Feather rods: no fenwick rod did give me a delusion.
Especially when I choosed the Aetos 10' #3 weight line I was looking around for a perfect light nymphing rod, so at the end I went for it.
Well, I was surprised by several aspects, first of all, the incredible precise and sensitive rod tip.
With this rod I was using a sage quiet double taper 3 weight line, and the rod was able, with no effort, to roll cast 12-15 meters of line and stretch out perfectly a 6 meters (20 feet) nymph leader with a single tungsten weighted fly.
For the caster, this is a really cool point.
In addition, if you consider, often a longer rod is used on places where you do not have backdoor space and you need pinpoint accuracy reaching the fishes as well as a better fly control in the water, this characteristic is not negligible.
The aerial casting is overall good, logically this is not a distance rod, this means the able caster will reach every needed distance but this is not his main use.
40 to 60 feet casts are the perfect range: no effort incredible stretching out ability, definitive precision also if roll casting your nymphs straight in the fishes feeding trajectories.
The Strong butt section allows the over weighting by casting as well a WF4 floating line, or a WF4 clear intermediate tip line.
The rod casts well also in the 60 to 70 feet distance range, and can go over, but why? with a three weight 10 foot going so far? This is a perfect fishing tool that gives his best with one or two weighted nymphs, as well casting strike inticators, reaching the perfect spots to catch fishes, no more than this is required by a 10 foot 3# line.
I tested also the rod with dry flies in large waters like Slovenian Sava Bohinjka river, and it gave me again satisfactions: great control, delicate presentations, pleasure to stretch long leaders with ease, perfect reach casts, and anti drag manoeuvres, good strike when fishes feed our flies.
The rod is good also with single hand spey casts like the switch, the single spey, the double spey or the snake roll.
Hope you liked to read my review, to be continued... Please contact me for more details or extra needs about fly fishing and fly casting.
Aesthetics: 3
Construction: 3
Aerial casting: 4
Waterborne casting: 5
Absolute distance tool:3
Fishability: 5
Accuracy: 5
Total points of the rod review: 4
Valutations goes from 0 to 5, where 0 means really not satisfiyng, and 5 is the optimum.
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