Single foot guides for 10wt fly rod

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Re: Single foot guides for 10wt fly rod

Posted by: Darrin Heim (---.tukw.qwest.net)

Date: February 13, 2009 03:20PM

Hi Peter,

This is my opinion however it is a bit biased toward my products of course.

Between snakes, single foot wire frames ,and ceramics, I would go with the ceramics. I feel they cast better and I like the smooth strip and how they perform when fighting a fish. With that said, I would go with our Titan Ringlock guides which I feel are the absolute best guides offered for this type of rod. They will have,,

- light physical weight
- flexible feet and frames
- slight arrow shape foot on the single foot fly guides helping thread to lock the guide in
- shorter foot print reducing length of wrap and flat spot on blank
- Ringlock design to eliminate ring loss
- Nanolite inserts are extremely hard as well thinner and lighter weight
- Nanolite inserts have a slightly larger ID then standard rings making them ideal for knot connections
- titanium frame material that will never corrode

Obviuosly I use them myself and all the heavy fly rods I will be building in the future will have these as my first choice. I hope you would consider them a possible choice as well.

Best Regards,

Darrin Heim
American Tackle Company

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