Discussing Axiom II-X Fly Rods with Flip Pallot

[Music] sweet cast flip i'm absolutely in love with the new axiom 2x i've i've told you this a few times but to be able to stand here with you and throw it and have you tweak my cast as we always do and it's always appreciated but tell me and our viewers kind of how did this rod come about well it came about really i think because the mangrove is going away some of the materials that we used in the mangrove are no longer available oh okay so not not that anything was wrong with the mangrove we just can't build it anymore so we were looking for something that would replace it in ways but this is much more technical oh yeah than the mangrove was um got the fuji stripper and the smaller stripper which is something that i really really like there's been some question about that yeah i know i know i know it's uh it's the subject of much debate um lefty was a huge proponent of 22 millimeter 20 millimeter stripping guides um and for a long time that was conventional wisdom uh i think we've rethought that and uh taking our cues from the uh from the bass fishermen you know have gone to much smaller guides and the theory is that the sooner you align the line with the direction of the rod the better it performs makes sense so a smaller stripper closer to the rod makes sense that's a recoil stripper which has a lower coefficient of friction than the ceramic guides and they're indestructible i hate getting to a foreign destination and breaking the ring out of a stripping guy it just it's happened to me i did it in brazil a hundred times it's happened to me i just i'm tired of that yeah so this rod um has a very very very advanced action super crisp delivery it's not a super fast tip it has a little more in the center of the rod than the bvk family had it was more the bbk a tip action rod uh and the legacy series will be more a tip action rod than this this will give um casters who need a little bit larger moment in their cast they'll find it with this rod well everybody that i've uh that i've put this rod in their hands everybody has fallen in love with it everybody in the shop uh agreed and that's unheard of for everybody in the shop to agree on a fly rod uh pat kelly for example just went gaga over it i understand i i immediately took them to new orleans and uh man i just i was on the back of the boat by the motor just cast and then putting it an inch from the bank just perfectly straight cast it's like push button casting if you know where to stop which we've just been talking about and refining my stop a little bit um you don't know where to stop it just goes right where your thumb points it we're using the five weights uh here in the mosquito lagoon in the indian river lagoon the five weights for these giant super spooky trout and that five-weight line lands so softly they're not aware of it and we're using reason out to 15 foot leaders tied with that new leader system and we're crushing these big fish we can fish them so aggressively using that long leader in light line that it's almost not fair nice loop nice loop came forward a little too soon very nicely there it was just how that lays out i mean it's just pushed but it's like opening a screen door you push the button and it just goes the tip just responds it's it's really to me it's very intuitive um for somebody that knows how to cast in the style that you've taught me and that you've now helped our folks with i'm not sure that that's not the the best family of rods that tfo has ever contemplated right here i would say that there's no question as soon as i put my hands on it i think i said this in my original review this is the best rod tf has ever made i i'd go with that there's no question so congratulations man it's a real winner and uh check it out at madrid outfitters dot com or your local fly shop the tfo axiom 2x this guy's responsible right there along with the good folks at tfo so thanks as always for being here if you like this video hit subscribe it helps out a lot and check out these videos we think you might like them too

Channel: Mad River Outfitters

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Length: 6min 10sec (370 seconds)

Published: Tue Oct 13 2020