Ultraweight Rods Remain My Childhood Fantasies
My childhood fantasies still haunt me. Nearly every day in the winter, we would walk down to the neighborhood pond and play hockey until we were called in for dinner or until darkness made it no longer able for us to play. We do the same thing now with polo. And, in the summer, we fished the same pond from dawn to dusk for bass. And, I still do now with fly rods for trout, as much as possible with work and other hobbies, so sometimes I am left with fantasizing about them all. In my childhood, my buddy and I fished, nearly exclusively, with the Diawa Minicast rod and reel. And, now, I do the same with light weight fly rods, from 0-weight to 3-weight rods for trout. Sure we had other fishing rods, and do now as well, but these were our favorites, and still are. The fish felt bigger and we lost fewer of them. The Diawa Minicast it advertised that, "you’ll always have a high-quality ultralight set-up that's ready to catch fish wherever you are... which matches an ultralight reel featuring an aluminum alloy body and nose cone, smooth disc drag and easy push button ... with compartments which fit inside your suitcase or under car seat." I guess I still haven’t grown up, as I still fancy ultralight rods and flies. In 1982, Howard Steere designed the Orvis Superfine 2-weight, then the Orvis Superfine 1-weight, which truly transported fly fishing into the world of ultralight. Shortly thereafter, Jerry Siem moved from Winston to Sage evolved ultralight fishing by designing the first of three revolutionary families of truly unrivaled ultralight fly rods. First was the Sage TXL 0-weight. This was followed in of 1997, with the whole family of Sage SPL ultralights, which were revolutionizing in featuring the latest newest materials
