Gear Institute’s resident fly fishing expert weighs in with his picks for the very best gifts for the angler on your list this holiday season.
SAGE X FLY ROD 509-4
Sage builds rods just across Puget Sound from where Boeing builds airplanes, and that proximity lets Sage borrow carbon fiber technology from the aerospace giant. The X series proves the Sage engineers can get the best out of the state-of-the-art composites. The 5-wt X offers powerful fast-action performance with a nuanced line control typically found only in much slower rods. We found we could fish small dry flies as comfortably as huge streamers with the X, though the rod excels when you have to toss big stonefly patterns, or hopper-dropper rigs, well out into a broad river. The X is a perfect rod for big western rivers full of lunker trout.
sageflyfish.com | X FLY ROD 509-4 $895
