Last summer, the good folks at Sage released a new ‘specialty’ series of reels called the Evoke. According to Sage, the Evoke was the answer to the question, ‘what would many of the most hardcore fly fishers who take on big anadromous fish and powerful saltwater species want in a fly reel.’ Well, that was…
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Sage METHOD Switch Rod 6119-4 – Review
Last year, we were fortunate to get a hold of the Sage METHOD 7126-4 spey rod for a week long testing on some hot Dean River steelhead at B.C. West. We loved it so much that when it came time to look for a new trout swinging stick we looked to the METHOD spey rod’s little…
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Sage 7126-4 METHOD Review – The Lightsaber
We recently spent a week at BC West fishing Sage’s new 7126-4 METHOD spey rod. We loved it, we named it, and now we’ll tell you why. History The Sage 7126-4 TCX has been one of the more popular steelhead rods around the Pacific Northwest over the past few years. Light but incredibly powerful, the…
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Sage ONE Switch Rod – 8116-4 Review
When we heard that the switch rods in Sage’s ONE lineup would be 11’6″ long, we got pretty excited, for two reasons. Rods north of 11′ tend to work a lot better for our ‘short spey’ applications of switch rods. Yeah, an 11′ rod might overhead cast better…but in our world we don’t overhead cast…
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Sage 7126-4 ONE Steelhead Spey Rod Review
We recently got the chance to spend some time fishing another one of Sage’s new ONE spey rods – the 7126-4. Today you get to hear what we thought about it. We’ve written up two other ONE spey rods – here are our reviews of the 8136-4 ONE and the 10130-4 ONE. Design The 7126-4…
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Sage ONE Spey Rod Review – 10130-4
It’s the second of our four king salmon spey rod reviews that came out of our first week at BC West this season! Here’s the introduction to this batch of king rods and here’s our review of the ECHO King rod from last week. Today we’re giving you our impressions of the Sage 10130-4 ONE,…
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Sage ONE Spey Rod Review – 8136-4
Between now and July, Sage is shipping their brand-spanking new ONE spey and switch rods. We were lucky enough to spend some time with one of the standouts in the line, the 8136-4. Today you get to hear what we think about it. Background Sage’s ONE two-handers have been highly anticipated for good reason. The…
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Sage ONE Rod Review – Bonefishing
Introduction Sage introduced the ONE rod series last year as a replacement for their venerable Z-Axis series. We’ve spent a bunch of time fishing ONE rods on South Andros, from pre-production 7 weights to the right-up-the-middle 890-4, to the borderline-for-bonefishing 691-4. We’ve had a ton of fun fishing these rods on the flats, so we…
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Sage Kanektok Wool Pro – Why We Like It
Here’s why we like the new Sage Kanektok Wool Pro pullover. It’s a comfortable, versatile wool-polyester blend insulating layer that looks good, feels good and works in a really wide range of temperatures. It’s named after our home at Alaska West – the beautiful, remote, biomass-filled, amazing Kanektok River. More Gear We Like Simms Headwaters…
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Sage 6119-4 TCX Switch Rod Review
It’s another chapter in the story of the Short Spey Revolution! Background Earlier this year we posted our review of the Sage 8119-4 TCX Switch rod – the heaviest in Sage’s line of very fast “long switch/short spey” rods. We’re totally in love with this rod; in fact your fearless editor has had a very…
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