Guideline Fario CRS 9-10ft 5 weight Fly Rod

By Christopher Rownes

The French aviator, adventurer and author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, probably best known for his classic children’s book The Little Prince, was also an aircraft designer. He gave us perhaps the best definition of engineering elegance when he said “A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” These words were my starting point! What is really important in a fly rod What is the essence of a great fly rod.

I have also worked on vintage aircrafts and so have knowledge on and so design, materials, analysis, and construction of the "bones and joints" of an aircraft this said this a very fine rod and made of some of the best Materials.