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Review - Feather Brain, Drew Chicone

From dyeing materials with sachets of Kool Aid, building a dubbing twister or cutting crab patterns with a bottle cap, Feather Brain is chock full of incredibly useful and effective techniques, sag...

The Worlds Greatest Fly Rod Tube

Obviously the result of many hours of extensive materials testing and in depth product development - we present - the most Epic of rod tubes.

The Swedish Connection

These amazing pictures and gorgeous Epic build come courtesy of Christian Hörgren of Fine Tackle Sweden. Christian built this rod for a client a few weeks back, and I asked for some ...

Epic Fly Rod Components and the Dancing Reel Seat

Stoked to finally get our new "Epic Components" category up on the website, still a little fine-tuning to to - particularly on the video embeds (why does the Youtube embedded player suck so)

SPINING A FLY ROD - TO SPINE OR NOT TO SPINE

Fly rod blanks tend to naturally want to bed more in one direction that another. This is caused by an effect called the “Spine” and often there is more than one on a blank. The s...

Epic 990 Review & Build from Snowman Custom Rod Works

"I am really impressed with the Epic 990 profile. It seems like nobody builds a high weight rod for small water 30 pound king salmon. This profile would be ideal. I often find myself caught up in p...