I have been posting periodically looking for information on switch rods, trying to buy a switch rod both to little avail, so today I called around to the major fly fishing shops in Calgary and asked what they had in stock in a 4wt switch rod.
Seems like they ALL carry larger rods but not so much in a 4wt, some were talking smaller spey rods instead of switch rods.
Looks like the front runner (as it was before the calls were made) is an Echo SR Switch. which runs about 430.00 in all three shops that had them in stock.
A few places had some 6wts on sale for fathers day but I feel those are a little big for what I am going to use it for (replacing a 6wt single handed rod) but it made me wonder if there are annual sales at the fly shops that I might be able to get the Echo as a better price?
At this point any information would be appreciated.
Not sure what you mean, unless I am mistake I attended the Spey Clave that happened a month ago put on by OFF that's where I talked to Tim Rajeff about the Echo SR but I was still in a cast so I could not partake.
My bad i meant spey pages. Itll be 1 of 38300 when you type spey clave. Anyways good luck with your search. I took a look on spey pages earlier and didnt see what you were looking for but didnt dog that deep. A wtb ad might pull somethinf up though.
I use a dragonfly 11 foot 4 weight switch nice little rod for $250 I have 3 Spey rods and two switches and the 4 weight is the cheapest but I'm not disappointed with it all
Redington Dually 4w7 10'9" costs $250. I have 3 switch rods (Amundson 6wt and Sage Method 7wt are the other 2) and I use this rod more than any other rod in my arsenal, single or double hand. I have no idea why your shops don't have better selection. Must be time to move.
buy a blank from angler's roost and build your own.
or put a 250 grain airflo scout or OPST commando head on your 6wt single hand, it would launch line. If you're around Calgary I've got a 2/3wt 12' switch rod from angler's roost you could try, and an 8wt single hand that I use a 300 grain scout head on. Both of them launch line
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Redington Dually 4w7 10'9" costs $250. I have 3 switch rods (Amundson 6wt and Sage Method 7wt are the other 2) and I use this rod more than any other rod in my arsenal, single or double hand. I have no idea why your shops don't have better selection. Must be time to move.
I have a loop evitech Spey a vision catapault and a beluah platinum all higher end rods and a tfo switch
So when I bought the dragon fly switch I wasn't expecting much but it is a nice rod easy to find dragon fly rods in bc
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