Leland on the Rio Grand Fly Fishing Line
Rio's state of the art trout line! This
weight forward taper is
ideal
for fast action fly rods. Feel confident whether you are
nymphing big
Montana waters or making delicate
presentations, with a size 24 trico,
on an Eastern stream. This line also comes with a convenient loop
welded to the tip.
Specifications:
- Type of Taper: Weight forward
- Total Length: 3-5 weight = 90 ft, 6-9 weight = 100 ft
- Core: Braided Multifilament Nylon
- Coating: AgentX with Super Floatation Tip
- Color: Camo Green
Leland on Freshwater Floating Lines
Contemporary
floating lines employ microballons, tiny buoyant additives that
decrease the density of the line, to ensure floatation. Air entrapment
in the braided core further increases buoyancy and hydrophobic agents
in the coating also repel water. RIO has developed a new formula, while
proprietary and may not include microballons, still utilizes the same
theory by controlling density and diameter manufacturers keep your line
where it needs to be to get the strike - on the surface.
Leland on Freshwater Lines
The varied habitats of freshwater fish (and
especially the trout's) require a wide range of line designs for
effective fishing. Luckily for the modern angler, engineers at Rio,
Sage, and Scientific Anglers have thought up a line for every possible
freshwater situation. Whether the line is tapered for distance (Expert
Distance, RIO Gold), general purpose (GPX, Trout, Rio Gold, Sage
Performance II), delicate presentation (XPS, Sage Quiet Double Taper
II), technique specific (Nymph, Stillwater, Rio DC Sinking lines), or
otherwise, these lines deliver high performance for every outing. These
new lines employ a soft braided multifilament core for low memory, easy
mends and line handling as well as PVC coatings, enhanced super slick
processing which allows the line to slip effortlessly through the
guides, maximizing control and accuracy. With developments like these,
putting the fly in front of the fish has never been easier.
Barry Beck on the RIO Grand Fly Line
“I’ve spent most of my life hunting big trout for my clients,
trout that are described in pounds as well as inches. Trout in these
sizes are smart and wary and they generally don’t make mistakes.
The
first cast may be the only cast so it better be right. My key to
success is most often a combination of
long leaders, the right fly and
a fly line that can give me the right presentation. The line color is
as important as the profile and I always rely on earthy colors like
RIO’s Camo green to blend into the background.
Of all the great profiles that RIO offers my first choice is the RIO Grand. This line meets
all of my needs in a
floating taper including the ability to properly load my fly rod. It
shoots
like no other line that I have ever used and it really floats thanks to
RIO’s
Agent X coating. It gives me the edge I need to fool the most
discriminating monster.”
Rio on Rio Grand Fly Fishing Line
RIO Grand® Fly Line - Fast Action Fly Rods
- The RIO Grand, made with state of the art fly line technology, is an
all-around line with distinctive benefits for the trout fly fisher. The
weight forward taper is one half size heavier to load fast action fly
rods. The unique taper design features a long rear taper that roll
casts easily and a front taper that will delicately present even the
smallest dry fly. AgentX™ Technology gives the RIO Grand maximum
floatation. The line remains supple in coldwater conditions and is
ultra smooth for maximum casting distance. On the Super Floatation Tip™
is a welded loop for changing leaders. Tests prove that when you land a
fish, the loop slides through the rod guides more easily than the
customary nail knot.
Rio on AGENT X and SUPER FLOATATION TIP:
"AgentX is a manufacturing process in which two coatings
are applied to the fly line at the same time. As a result of these
coatings being produced simultaneously, they fuse together in what RIO
calls "Fusion Technology," forming a seamless single coating that will
never separate or break down. The advantages of Fusion Technology are
vast. The "under coating" not only seals the core and covers any
blemishes in the braid; it also adds a super low-density proprietary
coating. This under coating fuses to the outer coating, resulting in
the smoothest, slickest, highest floating fly lines ever made. The
combination of these processes ensures that the outer coating is
perfectly centered around the core and allows for greater durability,
less dirt pick up and longer casts.
To accomplish this,
RIO developed a radically new chemical that gives a floating fly line a
specific gravity as low as 0.65 - something unattainable with normal
microspheres. This new chemical is five times lighter than the standard
microspheres used in fly line manufacturing, but with much increased
durability. By making the under coating with this new super floating
material and the outer coating with lesser amounts of abrasive
microspheres, the result is a fly line that has both a much higher
buoyancy (around 0.70 specific gravity) than competitors' fly lines
(normally 0.85 to 0.90 specific gravity) and the extreme durability for
which RIO fly lines are known.
Using the super
floatation chemical in the front four feet of a fly line, coupled with
RIO's unique welded loop (that stops water wicking up the core), RIO
can now produce fly lines where the tip will never sink - an end to
that age-old problem. Super Floatation Technology™ has been
incorporated in many of RIO's premier trout lines, thus enhancing
better strike detection when nymphing, easier pick up of the fly line
when making a cast, and avoidance of sub-surface micro drag as the tip
pulls the leader tight when one is dry fly fishing. RIO is currently
prosecuting patent protection for its new technology.
AgentX
is the future of fly line manufacturing. The buoyancy as well as
unbelievable smoothness and slickness that result from this fusion of
coatings make the use of standard microspheres and 'one coat' fly lines
prehistoric. Have a great year of fishing - All of us at RIO will keep
on working to make your favorite sport even more fun!"
Jim Vincent on RIO
Kitty and I started RIO in 1990 after ten years of
living and traveling in an Airstream trailer, fishing from Key West to
Northern British Columbia each year. This great lifestyle-which we
still enjoy today as often as possible-taught us plenty. In working as
freelance writers and photographers from coast to coast, we were able
to meet, write about, and photograph some of the best anglers in the
country. As we worked with them, they taught us their techniques. And
this in turn became part of an ever-growing knowledge base.
Long before RIO started manufacturing fly lines, I was a fishing bum
for many years. In the search for the right line, I'd make new tapers
all the time as I cut up and epoxy-spliced together pieces of fly line.
I come at fly line design from an intuitive rather than an engineering
point of view; experience drives innovation at RIO. We don't hire guys
in white lab coats to design a better way to connect a fish to a fly
line. The product development process has to incorporate the input of
fly fishers, guides and captains; and the hours, days, and years of
standing in rivers, wading on flats, surfcasting or standing on the
deck of a flats boat. We know that to create great products, you have
to spend hours on the water, in the water, casting, reading water,
combating and resolving myriad factors in order to catch fish
consistently. On the water is the primary laboratory, because only
there can one understand the truth about fly fishing.
RIO is recognized as the premier company in fly fishing products;
leaders and tippet materials for every fly fishing discipline as well
as for manufacturing the world's best fly lines at its Idaho factory.
To keep our customers happy, our product design and development
process is complex-because every fly fisher's experience on the water
presents numerous challenges. It takes creativity to synthesize in a
design all the many factors that affect the functionality of a fly
line, leader or tippet material. Luckily, the RIO Team is dedicated to
understanding the reality of the fly fishing process, because many
people who work at RIO are fly fishers; and it is our collective
experience and the expertise of our customers that drives RIO's
creative products.
So,
what kind of factors are we talking about? To name a
few . . . depth, distance, wind, delicate presentation, meteoric powerhouse
delivery, visibility, extreme heat, extreme cold, manageability, color
perception, and many others. Awareness of all these factors is how the
designs for RIO Products are born, as on-the-water experience and
understanding of nature meet man-made materials and techniques of the
laboratory and the fly line factory. Each product we bring you started
out in the minds of avid fly fishers, then evolved from "what if" to
"how?" This process is what our company is all about: the continual
search on many levels for the most functionally creative designs to
solve the problems presented not only by fish, but the elements and
environs in which they hunt and live. This process is what has brought
about our latest technological revolution."
