Interesting question.... I own a 9'6" XP 6wt. I love it for tossing streamers, and places where I need to dead-drift nymphs because of the extra 6".

I do not like it for fishing drys, which I have done with it several times, because it is so fast. I feel like I take a lot of flies away from fish. When I drop back to a slower rod, I don't have the problem.

I think "Best Ever Made" is a bit of a stretch. To much opinion can get in the way of a statement like that. If it was the "Best Ever Made", why would Sage, or anyone else, make another 5wt?

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Ken

"The memory of a fisherman is more like fiction than journalism, that is, it doesn't ignore the facts, but it is not entirely bound by them, either."

John Gierach