On the heels of releasing their new Evos rods, St. Croix has debuted one other new fly rod household, dubbed the Technica. Out there in weights 3-5, and lengths from 7’9″ to 9′, these rods are primarily dry-fly targeted, although from a primary look by their advertising and marketing supplies, I wager they’ll deal with dry-dropper rigs, as properly.
St. Croix says the Technica is “able to delivering exact casts with ninja stealth, whereas sustaining sufficient authority to turn-over lengthy leaders within the wind, mend with complete management, and produce optimistic hooksets at distance.”
As with the Evos, St. Croix constructed the Technica with Mito Graphene, which the corporate claims permits it to construct stronger, lighter blanks than ever earlier than.
“After speaking with devoted trout anglers and guides concerning the challenges of dry fly fishing, a typical concern emerged,” Tom Larimer, St. Croix Fly Fishing Model Supervisor, mentioned. “Conventional deep flexing dry fly rods are fantastic for parking tons and calm days, however when the wind ramps up and also you’re making an attempt to get a protracted chief to show over, they fall brief,’ was echoed from the Deschutes to the Delaware. These conversations led to a novel motion particularly tuned for technical trout fishing.”
St. Croix says the motion of the Technica can finest be described as “balanced.” It encompasses a softer lower-end and mid part to retailer power, which produces a smooth-loading really feel all through the forged.
“The Technica collection brings technical light-line fishing to the subsequent degree,” John Sherman, St. Croix Gross sales Rep and Photographer, mentioned. “The forgiving flex sample protects ultra-light tippets and helps maintain huge fish buttoned up. Nonetheless, the quantity of line velocity the rod generates is insane – it casts and seems like a a lot faster-action stick.”
In the event you translate all that advertising and marketing discuss, what you’re left with is a rod that ought to have a medium-fast motion, a softer tip, however sufficient energy within the butt part to deal with bigger trout. Whether or not the Technica lives as much as that billing stays to be seen, as I’ve but to get my palms on a rod.
That is the second rod St. Croix has constructed with graphene, which is a cloth I first grew to become conscious of again in school. I needed to work with a bunch to create a marketing strategy for one among my advertising and marketing lessons, so we got here up with the thought of utilizing probably the most superior graphite supplies to create an ultra-light fly rod. Clearly, we by no means put the rod into manufacturing, however the materials we got here throughout was graphene. Graphene is a “one-atom-thick layer of carbon atoms organized in a hexagonal lattice.” That association, together with different options, provides graphene a ton of energy. Including it to the graphite combination for a fly rod ought to, in idea, lead to a stick that’s each mild and powerful.
The Evos was constructed with graphene, and it’s for sure a robust rod. Primarily based on that, the Technica ought to have extra spine than your conventional dry-fly targeted rod, however once more, it’s robust to say with out getting a rod in hand.
The Technica is on sale now from St. Croix sellers. It retails for $975.
