Helios 966-4 Tip Flex

2 5/8 oz., 9'6", 4-piece, Tip-Flex 9.5 fly rod for 6-wt. line.

 

Great rod for great lakes steelheading, throwing big streamers or sinking line, and light salwater work.  Additional length means more line control, and it keeps those big heavy flies away from your head.

The new patent pending Helios 6 weight is so innovative and, frankly, so far ahead of all other fly rods it skips generations in how fly rods should feel, cast, and fish. Our 6 weight is so sublimely light, incredibly responsive, deadly accurate, and just plain easy and enjoyable to cast that to compare it to other graphite rods is like comparing graphite to bamboo. There is no comparison. The 6 weight Helios fly fishing rods are that good. And everyone is noticing.

Rod outfit includes:

• ZG Helios™ 966-4 Tip Flex 9.5 Fly Rod
• Mirage III Reel - Gold
• Hydros Trout Flyline WF6
  
• 125 yards of 20lb Dacron backing
• Carbon fiber rod tube and cloth rod sack

Features of the Helios Fly Rod

• greatest feel of action for more accurate and longer casts
• superior sensitivity and responsiveness
• the strongest fly rod on the market
• loads quickly, crisply, but nimbly
• supremely-balanced feel
• unmatched fish-fighting power
• better tracking for dry flies and nymphing
• smoother transition of power
• reduced casting fatigue
• exclusive first-ever thermoplastic, thermoset resins from tip to butt
• Precision Power Taper™
• corrosion-resistant woven graphite & gold-anodized aluminum reel seat
• flexible recoil guides
• titanium frame stripping guide with NanoLite® ceramic insert
• translucent-olive finish
• highest grade cork handle
• woven-graphite rod tube
• made in Manchester, Vermont