GUIDELINE Elevation Nymph 10'2" #4

Elevation Nymph rods are lightweight with a well-balanced and crisp action. Elevation fly rods has a fantastic combination of price and quality and truly is a bang for the buck! If you are looking for dedicated nymphing rod, we highly recommend you to have a closer look at these. Elevation fly rods gives technology and carbon materials you normally find in more expensive rods. Having carbon fibre with high modulus is crucial for having a sensitive rod with great recovery speed. The rods casting abilities is of course also something that vastly improves with a high quality blank.

They are all 4-piece rods with down-locking reel seat for great balance and custom designed cork grip and butt. Medium fast flex with sensitive tip section that manages both long casts as well as being protective when fishing thin tippets. Snake guide next to tip guide reduces tangles and line wrapping around guides and blanks. First stripper guide is placed very close to grip to avoid line-sag and lost control during line management. We have made sure to build the tip with a balanced flex that will cushion violent shakes and bursts from aggressive, large fish even on delicate tippets. The surface of the blank has a matte coating created by using a specially treated shrink tape during production. Due to the spiral pattern, it prevents thin nymph lines to stick to the wet blank and restrict distance when fishing. Summed up these are top modern rods with light feel and an action that suits anglers at all levels.

Elevation fly rods utilizes the very latest in material and pattern technology, as well as featuring several more environmentally friendly components, these rods are revolutionary. We have a clear goal to produce more sustainable products at Guideline and this rod series continue to show the way for future rod production.

Highlights

• Matte, lightly buffed blanks with no added coloration which gives them a dark graphite grey appearance. Any possible, excessive carbon waste particles are collected in a separate tank before water is passed on to the community cleaning facility. The blanks have a soft spiral pattern and thin, matte coating.
• Slim half wells grips with a small fighting butt of 3A cork without rubber cork reinforcements. This reduces the levels of epoxy-resins needed in the grips.
• Metal parts of reel seats are “clear anodized” which is the least toxic process possible when using aluminium reel seats. We use no chrome (lead) or paint in the anodizing bath.
• For the coatings on blank, guides and the mounting glue for grips and reel seat, we use a bio-based low-toxic Epoxy, tested and approved with extremely low levels of regulated chemicals. This also adds to a better working atmosphere in the assembly phase of production, reducing health hazardous odours to a minimum.
• Rods are mounted with light wire single leg guides and KW style stripper guides. We use a gun smoke powder coat finish on a stainless frame. Best sustainable choice, still hard and with no chrome plating, which contains lead.
• Keepring.
• Rod bag and rod tube cover are made of recycled REPREVE™ polyester. This is the leading, most trusted, branded performance fibers made from recycled materials (including plastic bottles). Buy products made with REPREVE™ to make a difference.
• The rod tubes are made of recyclable Polypropylene (PP), they are lighter and have 20% lower diameters than standard PVC tubes. This will save space and money when rods are transported both from the factory and by the user. Given its durability and the possibility to melt and reform into plastic pellets, PP is both reusable and recyclable for producing new goods.
• All rods are 4-piece.

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