Studio Built™ Custom Fly Rods - Our premium fly rod offering, made to order only. The pinnacle of craftsmanship and performance. Premium quality components, our signature translucent Japanese silk wraps, stunning craftsmanship & personalized with your custom inscription and backed by our total satisfaction guarantee.
Gorgeous heirloom quality fly rods each handcrafted to order specifically for you in our studio workshop in New Zealand and built to last a lifetime.
Fly rods as unique as you are. Personalize, customize, individualize. Each Epic® Studio Built™ Fly Rod is custom-crafted specifically for you from start to finish here in our studio workshop - no detail is overlooked. We put the best of everything into our fly rods, that’s what makes them so damn good.
Each Epic Studio Built™ Fly Rod is individually handcrafted as commissioned by you, our valued customer. We produce only 250 of these unique Studio Built fly rods each year, each creation is dated, numbered & certified as a genuine one-off Epic® Studio Built fly rod.
Fuller Flexing, Silky Smooth and Extremely Tough Fly Rods
Light, Accurate, Precise Fly Rods
The whole process has been a pleasure and my 590 is truly a wonderful fly rod. Perfectly made, flawless wraps, the best cork I have ever seen and so light in the hand and easy to cast. You really don’t appreciate all this until you see and it cast it against a Sage or Scott or even a Winston -the entire build is a cut above and this fly rod is the sweetest casting rod of the lot.
Smooth, loads short, loads long, has a surprising amount of power and is featherlight and absolutely stunning! No better rod made in my book, happy I found you!
The 590 is absolutely world-class. Light, responsive, smooth, and crisp - this rod is a true pleasure to fish. The build quality is outstanding - it's readily apparent the Swift Fly Fishing team accept nothing short of perfection.
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Our premium quality fly rods and accessories are available exclusively direct. Servicing our customers direct means we’re free to use the highest grade components & materials available and offer outstanding service and support.
If you need help or support, you talk to us direct. We're here to help.
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Our Studio Built™ Fly Rods are stunning heirloom quality fly rods handcrafted to order specifically for you in our studio workshop.
Each one proudly crafted in New Zealand and built to last a lifetime.
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Built to last. We handcraft these fly rods to last a lifetime using only the very finest components money can buy, premium guides, Japanese silk wraps to alignment dots; no detail is overlooked. Each Studio built fly rod is backed by our Lifetime Warranty and support.
You'll be passing this Epic onto your kids.
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Break a tip? we've got you covered.
Our Surefit™ ferrule system is so precise that breakages can be addressed by simply sending out the replacement part. Gone are the days of having to return a broken section and waiting weeks for a return.
Internal High Strength Ferrule.
A high strength internal ferrule is placed at each join to provide superior crush and split resistance.
*SureFit features on Epic fly rods and fly rod blanks
Our Snakebelly™ semi sanded finish delivers the toughest exterior finish possible. After production, blanks are first semi sanded, painted and then clear coated.
This two step process produces blanks with a very precise action (just as we designed them) and with a finish that is incredibly scratch resistant and durable.