![]() Bluegills are highly defensive of their beds & they are Reckless Ambush Predators who will hammer anything that happens to fall into the water. Powerful enough to zing a Bluegill fly, & full foot shorter than what you are looking at - which could come in super handy when working in and around trees & brushy pond banks, the TXL will be great for small to mid sized stream fishing as well.Įven when you are fishing for bluegills from a float tube or a small kayak or canoe you invariably wind up in close to the banks and a 9-foot rod stinks because you really have to watch the trees and the brush. There are times on a Brushy Little Creek or a 7 foot Rod is nice but on a pond or any kind of river that has some water to it a 7 foot 11 inch is definite advantage. I have fished each specific model numerous times. I picked up a 7'11' 4wt & I think it's amazingly versatile & by far the best rod length in the TXL line. Sage made a fabulous rod line for the kind of fishing you are doing. Which brings me to what in my opinion would be a phenomenal rod for what you are doing. The more you cast Superfines, the more you start to see that the tapers under 8 feet long feel a little bit better than the longer rod tapers in the series, which just end up being noodles. It definitely has trouble in the wind due to lack of backbone and when you're fishing larger patterns like big green Drake's the Rod doesn't generate a ton of line speed so turning the leader over in mid-air and having it drop down nice and soft can be challenging - you have to really slow your stroke down. Most gas were done fairly close in and under those circumstances with dry flies & emergers, it did okay. I fished the 8'6" superfine for dry fly hatches up on the main stem in West Branch of the Delaware River. I think a 9-foot 5 weight really wobbles all over the place under any kind of load, meaning when you have enough line out there that you're making a little bit longer cast then say 30 feet. The 8 foot 6 super fine feels a lot better if your r heart is set on a Superfine. I have fished each and every Superfine Rod multiple times, including the glass series & will tell you that a lot of people feel nostalgic about them, as do I & that they have a place in the world of fly rods, but, they actually start feeling worse as they get heavier in weight. ![]() If that is the kind of fishing you are going to do then grab a Superfine, by all means.įrom a casting perspective, Superfines kind of feel like hollow noodles, not super impressive compared to some other offerings that are out there by different companies. Where the Superfine really excelled was its ability to flex throughout the blank and this would help protect the absolute lightest Tippets out there I'm talking about Verivas 8X, 9X, 10X.12X tippets with fly patterns down to #328 & #30. He used to own an Orvis dealership up on the Farmington River named Classic Custom. ![]() But that's another story for another day. ![]() That caused him to go on a business shortly thereafter. Dave sold hundreds of Superfines in his day, until Orvis opened a corporate store less than 2 miles from his privately owned dealership. One of the biggest advocates of the Orvis Superfine that perhaps has ever existed is Dave Goulet. This is a far cry from how you will be using yours although at times you will definitely be fishing Mdges if you are fishing on ponds. Out of them all, I like the 2wt, but I use it for winter Midge fishing small to midsize rivers. I own a 7'9" 2wt, a 7'6" 3wt & a 8'6" 5wt Superfine at this point - having sold off numerous others. It is a good rod for making slow easy casts with smaller flies and in calm conditions. Over the yesrs, the more I became aware of what else was out there - the more I saw the Superfine just couldn't handle wind or puch longer casts. There was a time when I actually sold Superfines to the public and I fished them a lot and really thought they were terrific - but the bottom line was is that I wasn't aware of what else was out there! ![]() The reason being, you will be casting flies like small Sneaky Petes, small Bluegill Poppers and other fairly non areodynamic patterns. If you are targeting Bluegills, the Orvis Superfine rods would be the wrong rod family to look at. ![]()
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