12/30/2023 0 Comments Orvis helios 2 8 weight![]() Unlike Scott, who influenced the great Western Series, Loomis or Sage, all of whom have had constant great designers or orderly succession of protégées, Orvis has striven to address design issues internally and, when they have brought in a talented outsider, have not made him feel welcome in their insider culture. They've come close a few times but either their own rod shop shot down a good experiment for being to fragile or the competition has been to sharp. Fans of Super Fines, please don't jump on me as they harken back to Orvis's good old days largely unchanged in taper design. They really haven't stroked a ball out of the park for more that two decades until H2 has put them back in play. through their peak in the mid 80's with their (IMO) best ever "Western" series, they have been looking for greatness in all the wrong places. ![]() Orvis has been a big name in fly rods for a long time but following their initial graphite on-slaught in the late 70's with Fare&Fine, etc. A friend and superb caster and I "blind cast" the mid and tip -flex #5 (they look identical) and we both quickly agreed the tip model was the easy winner and a nice rod. The popular 9'/#5 too was a big improvement. In some cases where Helios was just fine no or minor tweaking may have occurred but some rods felt dramatically different to me.the 9'/#8 tip-flex went from bow wow to oh wow, it is a super nice rod now instead of a wimp. Nor do I consider that a "marketing" strategy but an honorable recognition that real improvements can be made in an existing good product. I don't believe there is much if any new technology in H2 as much as some design refinement. BEF, First, thanks for quoting me, I might not have found that stuff.
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