Fly Rod Building

Bandit for the Fiberglass Manifesto pt1

Big Trev's busy down in the workshop cooking up a sweet Epic Bandit for Cameron Mortenson over at the Fiberglass ManifestoThere are 15 unique and separate processes involved in building an Epic f...

ReviewsFiberglass FLy Rods

Fiberglass fly rods, E-Glass, S-Glass and why not all fiberglass fly rods are created equal.

Epic fiberglass fly rods are unique in that they are they are the only production rod in the world to be constructed using a fully unidirectional S-2 Glass fibre material.  Even today, most fiberg...

Macauley Lord

Here at Swift we get to build fly rods for some pretty interesting customers and from all walks of life. There are more than a couple of rock stars and at least one mega movie star (that we know of...

The Epic Bandit Review

After the recent club casting day, Tony Ong described it as casting “like a cut snake” and I agree with him.

Carbon Fibre Gets the Epic Treatment

Today we launch our Epic range of Carbon Fibre. No we've not forsaken our first love, Glass. 

Dirk Krüger and the Two Handed Fly Rod for Dad

So here is the rod nearly finished. Wrapped with Pearsalls dark brown and dark olive to match a golden Hardy Sovereign (or any other classic "golden" reel like Fin Nor, Seamaster, etc.)