St. Croix is rolling out its second main rod sequence because the rodmaker introduced its “return” to fly fishing scarcely over two years in the past. Like its award-winning EVOS sequence, a fast-action performer constructed for demanding saltwater and freshwater situations, the Wisconsin-based rodmaker’s latest sequence is constructed utilizing MITO functionalized graphene, a know-how unique to St. Croix. In contrast to the high-octane Evos nevertheless, St. Croix’s new TECHNICA fly rods are constructed with a average motion harking back to deep-flexing fly rods of yesteryear, however with trendy know-how and taper designs that St. Croix is touting as providing dry fly anglers the most effective of all worlds.
“One of the simplest ways to explain TECHNICA’s motion is balanced,” says Tom Larimer, St. Croix Model Supervisor. “Merely put, a softer lower-end and mid-section shops vitality and produces a smooth-loading, soulful in-hand really feel whereas serving to the caster make environment friendly mends and defend mild tippets and small flies. Greater up on the second and tip sections, the taper maintains the proper quantity of stiffness for choosing up lengthy lengths of line when recasting, sniper hook units on lengthy, downstream dry fly feeds, and quick tip restoration for turning over lengthy leaders within the wind.”
In line with St. Croix, their potential to construct rods utilizing MITO know-how permits them to design rods they in any other case couldn’t — and provide fishing instruments with fewer compromises. And, as Larimer added, it additionally produces rods that carry out a bit in a different way than one may count on.
“We realized rather a lot concerning the rod-performance attributes of MITO Graphene with the three-year growth of EVOS, launched final 12 months,” Larimer stated. “So, once we started the job of designing TECHNICA, we knew we might bend the foundations of conventional moderate-action design.”
It’s these design benefits that, in accordance with St. Croix, allowed them to construct a dry-fly centered rod that brings collectively the most effective elements of slow-to-moderate motion rods with the benefits of medium-to-fast motion rods.
As Larimer defined, “When seen on a deflection board, TECHNICA seems to be a really tender rod. However MITO Graphene drastically impacts how the rod casts. The addition of functionalized graphene to our established SCVI, SCIV, and SCII carbon fiber matrix will increase rod restoration by 20% … the general result’s a clean that possesses all the texture, finesse, and tippet safety of a moderate-flexing rod, with the velocity and energy of a medium-fast motion.”
On no account is St. Croix the primary rod maker to sing the praises of would-be game-changing know-how. Whether or not MITO graphene is the distinction maker St. Croix believes it’s stays to be seen. However with one award-winning MITO-based rod sequence below its belt and heaps of early constructive suggestions swelling across the just-released TECHNICA, there’s loads of motive to concentrate to the fly rods popping out of Park Falls, Wisconsin lately.
The brand new St. Croix TECHNICA fly rod sequence options six fashions starting from 3-weight to 5-weight. Obtainable instantly from St. Croix approved sellers. MSRP $975.
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