Lough Style Special “Lough Sheelin” 10’0” line 7 Fly Rod Brittany Fly Fishing Custom Fly Rods™

Description
This is the “heaviest” of the “Lough Style Special” series, although its physical weight is lower than the one of the 6 in an equal build.
It does have a more powerful and faster action, however ; for distance work in lakes and reservoirs, it will handle all sorts of lines including sinkers in the Di8-class to transport big streamers and boobies.
Nevertheless does this rod have a very pleasing flex to it which allows for finer work using tippet sizes in sizes 0,18 mm à 0,22 mm.
Using those strategies a fast intermediate, a hover or an S3 line work great on this rod.

My advice
This is your “bad weather” rod when fishing “Lough Style” and sinking lines are the order when the fish sit under the thermocline and need to be reached with a streamer.
It also doubles as a great salmon and sea trout single hander in Brittany, Normandy, Ireland, Wales... (did I mention steelhead ?). It is also a great rod to fish for asp, big perch, European walleye, black bass as well as carp of all persuasions and mullet during their annual upriver migration. (Loire, Garonne, Odet, etc.)

Rod building
Blank: “High Performance” graphite.
Sections: 4
Finish: black gloss.
Handle: Flor-grade cork (the ultimate) reversed half wells with short fighting butt
Reel seat: up-locking black anodized aluminum with graphite spacer (Black Skeleton/Woven Blue. See picture)
Guides: super hard chrome : 2 gold-lined blued stripping guide + 9 snake guides + 1 tip top.
Thread wraps: Cobalt blue with metallic blue accents.
Weight: 118 gr.
Weight tip section: 6 gr.
Accessories: graphite rod tube (85 cm) + segmented Burlington marine blue polyester rod bag with lacing (custom made in Brittany in Morlaix)

The rod builder’s note
“So the “7” is a bit less in physical weight in an identical build than the “6”, but generates more speed with heavier lines, both overhead and with waterborne casts. Ten-foot-7-weight, the ultimate bigger sea trout and summer steelhead rod and definitely THE reservoir all-rounder, even with dense sinkers.”