Echo 2 Saltwater sticks

the new scott s4s is argueably the best saltwater fly rod being made right now which was released by scott fly rod Co. this year at the Fly fishing Retailer show in Denver (casted it...it's rad). However, not all of us can afford $700 rods and the problem with many lower end rods in 8-12 weights is that they are too slow of an action to turn over large flies, carry long belly lines, and shoot flat in to the wind, which is needed on the saltwater flats. So if you are spending the money to get to the saltwater and are on a budget, I would recommend making your trip miserable by not having a rod that can handle the situations. Echo fly rods has developed a series of saltwater capable fly rods that are reasonably priced in the $300 range. One of the most gnarly features of this purchase is that they come with 2 tips (supposedly with different actions for accuracy and distance) so if you break one on your trip you aren't out of business. Lifetime warranties are great but don't do you much good with a broken rod on some island in Belize or Bahamas and you have a week of fishing scheduled still. Tim Rajeff in Vancouver who owns Echo rods send the Big R Fly Shop guys some of the larger weight rods for their recent trip to Baja for Roosterfish and Dorado, and they passed the test of Baja which is windy, fast casts at long distances are necessary, and we were throwing big flies. It was a pretty good testing grounds for the rods and they are LIG-iT.

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