Ha ha. That's what's funny about guys who call BIIX's "fast." They've thrown the whimpiest rods their entire lives, then pick up what Winston calls "fast," and says "by golly that is a fast rod!" Even though it compares much more to Sage's SLT than the XP. It's medium, medium fast at best. Doesn't have the balls to chuck streamers, or heavy nymph rigs at any distance, nor deal with the wind with weight on the line. It's a dry fly stick through and through, sure, but who fishes dry flies more than anything else anymore?