Umpqua Bamboo Fly Rod 8'6" 6-wt Medium Fast | Powell B Taper
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description: Big water. Big fish. Light enough to fish all day. The Umpqua is one of Oregon's big-shouldered rivers, home to hard-fighting summer steelhead and the kind of wild trout that chase streamers. A 6-weight is the tool for that water. It throws a weighted fly or a big dry, cuts through wind, and turns a strong fish that would rather not come to the net. At 8'6" in a 6-weight with medium-fast action, the Umpqua reaches across a big run and still loads close for a short cast. Most cane this size fishes heavy in the hand by the end of a long day. This one does not, and that is the whole point of how it is built. Hollow-Built for Light Weight The Umpqua is hollow-built. We mill crescents from each strip of cane and leave solid dams at the stress points, so the blank keeps its power but sheds the dead weight a solid 8'6" carries. The result is a big rod that casts like a smaller one, hour after hour. This is the method E.C. Powell pioneered, done by hand. The Powell "B" Taper E.C. Powell built rods in Marysville, California, for anglers who fished big western water. His "B" taper is a medium-fast 6-weight with authority through the mid-section and a tip that recovers fast enough to control line in wind. It was designed to move a fly and fight a fish, not to baby a size-20 dry. Powell's hollow-building is what makes the taper work at this length. A solid blank at 8'6" fights the caster. The Powell B, hollow-built, delivers the reach and the power without the fatigue. Built the Way a Bamboo Rod Should Be The Umpqua is hand-planed to the standard that has defined Headwaters rods since 2002. The fittings: A finely knurled double-locking downlocking reel seat with stabilized burled maple insert. Full Wells cork grip. Red agate stripping guide. Hard chrome guides wrapped in deep burgundy thread with a narrow black tip. The tube: Cordura rod tube with rod sock included. Choose Your Version The Favorite | $650 - Single-tip version for the angler who wants to get on the water first. …
brand: Headwaters Bamboo
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  value: Deluxe | 2-tips, Favorite | 1-tip
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