[Hamish Young]

I like that, burning then old split cane rod and moving on to glass fibre.

That's progress for you 








Just kidding









I'll get my coat 

H

[Marc Fauvet]

why burn them when they make such nice tomato plant stakes ?      

[joshua]

Grayling with a dry fly. 44cm. Epic 580!

[Mike Barrio]

Great photos, thanks for sharing them Ari, it looks like a nice piece of water too

Best wishes
Mike

[joshua]

Yes Mike it is a very nice place Far far away in the most northern Finland. See map here: http://goo.gl/maps/r0Sk7

[Sandy Nelson]

Very Nice Ari

Thanks for sharing, i like the look of your river a lot And Grayling are my favourite

Sandy

[joshua]

Hi all!

Here is a picture of a nice wild Slovenian rainbow trout from my recent trip 

-Ari

[Mike Barrio]

Nice one Ari

Best wishes
Mike

[Sandy Nelson]

Cracking photo, pretty fish.

Thanks for sharing that Ari, much appreciated

Sandy

[Mike Barrio]

More Epics in action

[Liam Stephen]

I see Swift are now producing 4 piece glass blanks. Are they planning on phasing out the 3 piece or will they continue to do both?

I can't see any advantages of going to 4 piece. The shorter than normal lengths make them just as easy to transport as my 4 piece carbon rods.

Does anyone know why they are changing? 

 
Liam

[Mike Barrio]

Will see if Carl or Trev from Swift could give us some feedback on that one ....... but I guess Sandy would know.

Cheers
Mike

[Marc Fauvet]

The shorter than normal lengths make them just as easy to transport as my 4 piece carbon rods.

hi Liam,
my Epic 476-3 piece in its tube is longer than any of my 9' - 4 piece rods.
for 'normal' outings around the home via the car they're no problem but for airplane travel they require a (much) bigger travel bag.
these really big bags cost a lot, they usually weigh a lot (reducing effective luggage carry limit) and their size tends to be overkill volume-wise.
i haven't talked to Carl about this but i'm pretty sure that's one of the considerations behind the 4 piece design.
besides, ferrule design has come a long way with several 'travel' rods having very good actions. the Macenzie double-handers are a great example of this.
cheers,
marc

[Liam Stephen]

Marc 

Makes sense to me now. I hadn't taken into consideration travelling abroad, where you are right the bags are big heavy and cost a lot to transport. I should know I returned from Thailand with a 7ft rod case as I bought a 1 piece rod i couldn't leave behind 

In terms of action they will remain the same or very close to it I imagine?? Yeah the Atlas range are pretty sweet rods and I don't like double handers 

 
Liam

[Sandy Nelson]

You have pretty much nailed the resoning behind it

There were a lot of requests for them to be more transportable, especially the 686 as folk want to take their Epics on Holiday.
There has been a good years worth of effort gone into getting the action to translate into 4 pc, so the rods feel the same as the existing product.
I've not had the chance to try one out yet, so couldn't comment beyond Carls explanation, when i asked the same questions.
However i will hopefully see one fairly soon and can report back.
For now both 3pc and 4pc will run concurrently, but i would imagine for the future all the rods will be 4 pc. 
This will make a big difference to me in Shipping costs to Europe

Fundamentally the rods are staying the same, same colours, same actions, same sizes, just the configuration thats changing.

Sandy