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Post 27 Apr 2020, 15:22 • #176 
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I can’t decide because these two rods are 1-1/2’ apart in length:
- Diamondglass 8’-6” 4wt
- Steffen 7’-3” 3/4wt


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Post 28 Apr 2020, 13:54 • #177 
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Ijuin Yomogi 7'3" 4wt is pretty smooth with my Barclay 7'2" 3wt maybe smoothest,my brother has a CTS 7'6" 4wt that is right in there also.


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Post 09 May 2020, 11:18 • #178 
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I just recently receiver a James Green 5'-11" #2 Glass . It's smooth & sweet!


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Post 21 Jul 2020, 10:32 • #179 
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Location: US-TX
Perhaps ibookje said it best..." I might say we are living in the golden era for fine fiberglass rods." With vintage and new, with factory and custom and with foreign and domestic there are some incredible rod choices available to us. It's great time to be a Fiberglass Flyrodder.
Carl


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Post 21 Jul 2020, 12:51 • #180 
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cebfishingtools wrote:
Perhaps ibookje said it best..." I might say we are living in the golden era for fine fiberglass rods." With vintage and new, with factory and custom and with foreign and domestic there are some incredible rod choices available to us. It's great time to be a Fiberglass Flyrodder.
Carl


Hear! Hear!


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Post 22 Jul 2020, 06:49 • #181 
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yellow fl-90-5 or FF75


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Post 22 Jul 2020, 08:58 • #182 
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I have a Barclay built Ijuin Yomogi 703. The most smooth full flexing rod I’ve ever touched. Incredibly capable or extremely soft presentations.

-Ben


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Post 01 Aug 2020, 16:08 • #183 
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Location: SWVA
whrlpool wrote:
Bingo, ibooke. Then or now, 'glass rods usually provide the feel loosely described as "smooth." As with the 7 and 6 weight line, often a revelation to a fly angler schooled on the lighter line weights, sometimes I think the glowing descriptions of any one 'glass rod as "smooth" are partly just the outcome of being relatively new to the material. It would be easier to name the very few that aren't "smooth." Eventually, we go to smooth, smoother, smoothest.


Agree. Really hard to choose "smoothest" among my glass rods but could say that compared to my graphite rods most are "smoother". Smoothest might be my Steffen 5/6... or maybe the Kenney 835? Not far behind is my Fisher 806... incredible rod... all three are with the right lines.

Cheers


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Post 02 Aug 2020, 19:57 • #184 
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Cummings 7 ft ultimate 4wt


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Post 08 Aug 2020, 09:48 • #185 
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Location: Winthrop WA
Well, I think my latest acquisition would surely qualify in this category. I picked up the FF80-3 that was advertised here a while back and would say that it displaced the FF86 for this title in my little herd. So much so in fact that the 86 found a new home. The 80-3 is ultra smooth with a 5wt or 6wt line. Been using it with a Barrio Small Stream 5wt and loving it, especially the ability to fire spey casts on demand. Great setup.


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Post 11 Aug 2020, 10:53 • #186 
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I guess I'd have to add my ********* 764 to the 865...same genetics.


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Post 11 Aug 2020, 20:02 • #187 
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Location: US-CA
I have to go back to the early posts in this thread: McFarland yellow glass 8’ 5wt. (Shane build”).


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Post 11 Aug 2020, 21:58 • #188 
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Location: Albany, NY
So hard to pick one. So many glass rods fit the criteria, but these 3 rods for me just scream
“Smooth” :
8’2” 3 pc. yellow McFarland 4 wt.
8’3” 3 pc. brown McFarland Spruce Creek 5 wt.
7’6” 3 pc. Honey Lamiglas 4 wt.


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Post 16 Sep 2020, 22:32 • #189 
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Location: US-NC
I have an Orvis Fullflex A 7’ 5w that is about as smooth as it gets. It’s not genuinely slow like a slower glass rod feels, but it has an effortless casting stroke in my hands.


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