A stiif fast rod may be appropriate for tight line nymphing with a short line, but if you want to reach out with an indicator system, you best be a phenominal caster to turn over a lot of weight and/or thingmabobbers with a stiff rod. That fact and the one about stiff rods not favoring light tippets makes fishing this way a chore for most average flyfisherman. You don't need a fast rod to develop line speed anyway...old wives tale and a lot of HYPE from the manufacturers trying to sell more aerospace gobbly-gook rods. To each their own I suppose. As often as I fish, and if I fished the kinds rods you like to fish Silver, I would be laid up right now from multiple surgeries! There is no cheat in a rod. The rod must be albe to load, and deliver the fly line. The fly line needs to have enough mass to turn over the stuff on the business end of the leader. Simple physics!