I have a customer that is dead set on wanting a Sage 7wt 9' two piece blank to be used as a spinning rod targeting steelhead in Michigan. He showed me one that he has had for years, but the problem is that Sage only seems to make 4 piece rods now. I tried my darndest to convince him to use a standard "steelhead" blank which are available in infinate numbers, but he is dead set on a Sage blank. Two questions. One, will the Sage TCX 4 piece rod perform well built as a spinning rod? Second, does anyone have any older Sage two piece blanks laying around in a 9' 7wt?

You can test the existing rod for CCS data in order to find a similar blank. Sage models change over the years, what model is it?

Check the buy sell page maybe???

There are several there Don't know if you can use them

Bill - willierods.com



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/03/2013 03:48PM by bill boettcher.

I was building many spinning rod on fly blanks ALL STAR AUSTIN W 4,W 5,W 10 and i was changing some SAGE RPLX W 10,W 11,W 12,G.LOOMIS IMX W 10,W 12 in spinning rod for fishing from the bank in saltwater and work perfect ,no problem.

I was building many spinning rod on fly blanks ALL STAR AUSTIN W 4,W 5,W 10 and i was changing some SAGE RPLX W 10,W 11,W 12,G.LOOMIS IMX W 10,W 12 in spinning rod for fishing from the bank in saltwater and work perfect ,no problem.

I think the last Sage 2 piece blanks were the Z-Axis, I don't think they made a 7 wt in 2 piece though, before that it was probably the VPS and DS blanks. A whole bunch of difference in actions and performance there.

Thanks, the guy really wants me to build the rod on a TCX 4 piece. I don't see any reason why it won't fish nice for him. I don't build a lot of fly rods, so I am not real familiar with how those blanks are. I know the guy throws a lot of wet flys and floats on the Little Manistee. I don't see any reason not to build it on that blank, the blank has no idea that it isn't a 4 piece spinning rod LOL!