Willie was kind enough to bring me over (after the SF Spey Daze) two Ian Gordan's. Both 75' heads, one's the intermed, the other a full sinker head. Took great patience on Malcom's part to get me into some sort of grove in launching these lines.
Had one on a 15' Sage, the other on a 15' Scott. Cub Bear playing with himself for quite a bit of a day. Swapped lines on the rods and BINGO. Amazing how a given rod/line combo can be a

, swap around and off you go.
(BYW, Malcolm can reallllllyyyy launch those 85' full sinker heads! Even to the point of "hooking" a drift boat anchor line and 'reeling' same in to get his fly back.

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