For the past year, I’ve been wanting to get a heavier weight rod to handle streamers, and poppers for fishing on the lake. I talked with my friend Chris down at Blue Ridge Fly Fishing, and he pointed me to look at a 7wt of some kind.
Now, I’m sure all of you have seen the Orvis H3D and H3F. It’s a beaut of a rod, but it’s really hard to swallow the price. So if you are a mere mortal with a real job looking for a new 7wt, but don’t necessarily know what one is good.. Blue Ridge’s Blue Lab to the rescue. They did a test of all different kinds of 7wt’s to figure out the best in each price category.
After watching their tests, and what Chris had to say about the rods in person, I have narrowed it down to the Sage Foundation most likely. I casted a 6wt of it in person at the fly fishing show in Atlanta in February. It did cast very nice, and I’ll want to give a 7wt a cast before I buy it, but It’ll most likely be the route I go. If I happen to win the lottery however… H3 here I come.