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SHOP SALT R8 FAMILY
COASTAL CUTTHROAT RODS
Stepping into the grip of the cold Pacific, the water clings to your waders. Cast, cast,cast. There is something tugging at your absent-minded line, swinging with the current. You lift the rod and find something you never thought you would - a cutthroat mawing at your wooly bugger. You happen to glance up the beach to find the angler in your usual spot is watching you wrangle in the fish that must have swam right past them. The fish kicks its tail back into the water and your cold, wet, gloved hand is back on the rod, ready to swing again.
ALL AROUND COASTAL CUTTHROAT
Rod: 690-4
Fisheries: Beaches and Sounds of the Pacific Northwest Lines: Shooting
Lines: RIO Outbound Short WF6 Intermediate or Sink 3
Flies: Small Bait Fish Patterns, Clouser Minnows, Bead Head Wooly Buggers
ROOSTERFISH & GT RODS
Your rod is stuck between your armpit, and a two handed strip suits the fly as it zips through the clear water. The shadow behind it looks interested, now fully committed, and finally, flat out pissed. Suddenly, you hit a brick wall, and the rod becomes parabolic in its bend. The fly line escapes your grasp faster than you ever could have expected, the sand burning your palms. You could careless how your hands feel, because you know you’re in for a good one. It's time to fight the impenetrable, the fish of your dreams tossing in the surf.
All Around Roosterfish
Rod: 1090-4
Fisheries: Baja Mexico
Lines: RIO Elite Tropical OutBoundShort WF10I
Flies: Gym Sock, RIO's King Kinky Muddler, RIO's Big Baitfish
Giant Trevally
Rod: 1290-4FG
Fisheries: Christmas Island and across the Pacific and Indian Oceans
Lines: RIO Elite GT WF12F
Flies: Tan or Black Brush flies, Semper, RIO’s Playbate, RIO’s Baby Bonefish, RIO’s Big Baitfish
BLUEWATER RODS
The line between success and failure is as tippy as the horizon line your eyes are locked onto. In this moment of deep despair when time is seemingly stuck, you see spraying bait in all directions. As you toss the fly from the ready position, the rod you are holding feels nothing like the one you cast in the yard. Time is not your friend, and the boat rocks in the midday buzz of adrenaline. You’d like to consider this your Michael Jordan flu game, and as the buzzer sounds, the fly hits the water and disappears, almost instantly.
Light Bluewater
Rod: 1090-4
Fisheries: Small Tuna and Dorado
Lines: RIO Elite Leviathan, RIO Tropical Outbound Short
Flies: RIO's Big Baifish, RIO's Needlyhoo, RIO's Booze Cruise
Midweight Bluewater
Rod: 1290-4FG
Fisheries: Mid-sized Billfish and Tuna
Lines: RIO Elite Leviathan, RIO Billfish Shooting Head
Flies: Large Sardine, Ballyhoo, Mackerel, Large Billfish Poppers
Heavyweight Bluewater
Rod: 1586-4
Fisheries: Large Billfish and Tuna
Lines: RIO Elite Leviathan
Flies: Large Sardine, Ballyhoo, Mackerel, Large Billfish Poppers
BLITZ RODS
Time is completely still as the cold air creeps through your fingertips and makes your casting hand go numb. The cork on the rod feels unfamiliar, and although you are out of your comfort zone, your movements are somehow excitedly succinct. The casting motion is quick, powerful, and snappy. Laying the fly in the middle of the mosh pit, you strip it erratically, watching it slide through the storm of fish. The moment you start to pick your line up off the water, you come tight to a fish hell bent on reaching the bottom of the ocean. Hold on tight.
All-Around Blitz
Rod: 1090-4
Fisheries: Northeast Albies to Gulf Coast Jacks, Quick shots into chaotic bait balls
Lines: RIO Outbound Short WF10I
Flies: Peanut Bunker to Anchovies, RIO's Nice Glass, RIO's Booze Cruise