Airflo Rage Compact Spey Fly Line

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The Airflo Rage Compact fly line takes the dry line Spey fishing to a new level, offering improved capability for fishing in windy, blustery conditions with monster flies. The Airflo Rage Compact is a fine addition to the Airflo Spey fishing team which includes the Tactical Steelhead for general wet and dry Spey fishing, the Skagit Switch for short rod Spey fishing, the Scandi Compact for small dry fly delicacy, and the Speydicator for egg and nymph dunkers.

Angler Reviews of Airflo Rage Compact Fly Line.

This Spey head fly line from Airflo is specially formulated to provide a dry line that will drive your cast into strong winds with bulky flies and will even fish modest sink tips if the conditions demand. The Airflo Rage Compact offers an evolutionary step beyond the already amazing Scandi Compact Spey lines, because it really allows the dry line Spey fisher more versatility to adapt to wind, large flies, and will drive your cast into wind and into the far-off places where steelhead lay.

Why fish an Airflo Rage Compact fly line? If you fish a dry line in wind, or if you fish wind-resistant flies, or if you fish modest size intruder style flies on a dry line, or if you want to mostly fish a dry line but occasionally slip on a modest sink tip for damp presentations -- the Aifrlo Rage Compact is the best Spey fly line for you. It will deliver a cast more authoritatively than your Scandi Compact in the afore mentioned conditions, plain as day.

Slim, dependable Loops. Airflo loop connections are slender and strong, and this creates ease of switching lines simple and also reduces the resistance when the loops slide though the guides playing fish on this line.

Labeled Loops. Airflo Spey fly lines, including this Rage Compact line, have the grain-weight labeled on the tip end of the line, a serious improvement over the previous color code approach.

Practical experience with Airflo Rage Compact fly lines. In the very simplest terms, the Airflo Rage Compact slips in the considerable space between the Skagit Compact and the Scandi Compact. The Skagit excels at casting big, heavy sink tips and weighted flies that may look like wet chickens. The Scandi Compact is a wonderful Spey Head with a long front taper that is spot-on when we want to fish a dry line tipped with a small to modest sized dry or damp fly.

Enter the Airflo Rage Compact Spey fly line. The Rage offers a fly line that is a joy to cast with a floating, intermediate, or modest sink tip. The Rage Compact is a fly line that is significantly more tapered than a Skagit, but far more assertive than a Scandi Compact.

We are not engineering experts, but we understand the basics of the Airflo Rage compact fly line. Certainly the fly line design is more complex than the following, but in the shortest terms, the Rage overall head length is somewhere between the Skagit and the Scandi, the front taper is likewise between the length of the Skagit and the Scandi, and the diameter of the front taper on the Rage is smaller than the Skagit and larger than the Scandi.

Let’s take a 510 gr Airflo Skagit, Rage, and Scandi for example. The head length on the Skagit is 24 ft, the Rage is 30 ft, and the Scandi head is 34 ft. The front taper on the Skagit is 23.5 ft, the front taper on the Rage is 28.5 ft, and the front taper on the Scandi is 32.5 ft.

These taper differences combine to make the Rage a wonderful fly line that will deliver dry and damp flies in wind, allow us to use modest sink tips, and generally provide a fantastic spring, summer, and autumn spy fly line. We still feel that the full-on Skagit Compact fly line is an absolute necessity when fishing big heavy sink tips. The Scandi Compact, similarly, is a delightful fly line for fishing small dry and damp flies in calm conditions. Both the Skagit and Scandi heads are specialty fly lines and when specialty conditions dictate, they both excel at their best functions.

I fished the Airflo Rage Compact fly line in BC for six straight days recently. Tom Larimer was a principle designer of the Rage, and he drones on and on about the Rage 9proud papa maybe) and has fished this fly line on the Deschutes and gosh knows where. My experience with the Rage compact was first cabin. I fished it with floating , Intermediate, and sink tips of moderate weight. I fished the Rage in wind and calm. I fished the Rage on sub-12 ft and plus 13 ft Spey rods. This new Airflo fly line is here to stay. My casting was effortless, felt graceful (to me, realizing that my loops are never going to be as sharp and narrow as Tom’s are) and I was able to deliver my dry and wet flies far more accurately, and at greater distance when it was windy, to tempt wild summer steelhead. Did I catch fish on the Rage? Are there Grizzly Bears in BC? You bet there are and I did.

Jay Nicholas

The Airflo Rage Compact Spey Fly Line is available as follows:

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In closing, here is an email we received recently regarding Rage fly lines.

Sent: Mon, Sep 12, 2011 1:41 pm Subject: Rage

I recently tried a 390 Rage and am pretty impressed with it. I've had a hard time finding a line for my 11' 7 Winston B2x that I really liked. This line with poly leaders absolutely rocks, the line falls in between a Scandi and Skagit. It has a fine enough taper to throw bullet loops but still retained the ability to make easy short casts and enough power to punch thru the wind. I tried it with a 7.5ft T8 MOW tip and a medium un-weighted leech pattern and it was OK. It would turn it over but not really well, and your casts had to be spot-on to make it work well. I think the Rio Versileaders would be a good match for this line, I feel they are in-between a poly leader and traditional tip. I find that I get a little more sink rate with the Versileader, but the poly leaders have a finer taper and are better for more delicate presentations. The other thing I really like was the length, 28ft is really good on an 11ft rod, I didn't feel like I had to modify my stroke to cast the head out of the rod tip. 80ft casts are pretty easy with this line/rod combination.  The Rage will be excellent for turning over large dry flies for steelhead even under windy conditions. The Rage is a great fishing line and very versatile, should really excel with traditional and lightly weighed flys.  I also found that it was great with both sustained anchor and touch n' go casts.  If you buy one I don't think you'll be disappointed.

Matt Siegmund, Eugene Oregon September, 2011