RIO's Advanced
Flight Spey (AFS) Shooting Heads - NEW
Advanced Flight Spey
Shooting heads have a very unique taper design that easily loads
up a spey rod either for overhead casting, or for spey, or the
underhand casting style. The short body section and long, fine
front taper efficiently transfers energy down the length of the
head and results in great turnover and a precise presentation of
the fly. Incredibly tight loops and effortless casts of easy
distance are a result of this unique taper design.
Each AFS floating shooting
head is two-colored with the majority of the line being a subtle
green color to avoid spooking fish in low and clear water. The
rear 15 ft is a visible yellow, allowing the angler to track the
line and control how it fishes as it swings through the current.
Both ends of the AFS
head feature a small, neat welded loop. Attach a suitable
shooting line to the rear loop – either SlickShooter or
one of RIO’s Powerflex core shooting lines for the best in
performance – and one of RIO’s Powerflex core leaders to the
front end for complete depth control. The rear loop is bar-coded
for easy recognition.
The heads range in size
from a 4/5 with a head of 31 ft, 300 grains (9.5m, 19 grams) to
a 10/11 with a head of 42 ft, 640 grains (12.8m, 42 grams).
RIO’s AFS heads are
available from all authorized RIO dealers and have a recommended
retail price of $44.95.
Click
here for specifications
RIO's Technology is new, that's
what...
What do nonlinear dynamic deformations,
numerical algorithms, non-uniform elastica, and the legendary
Serret-Frenet reference frame have to do with fooling fish?
Lots, we’ve discovered. All the
concepts, all the revolutionary tapers, all the passion in the
world won’t magically turn out the world's best fly lines – you
need the technology to make it happen. (Of course, real life
fishing experience is required – you ever try to cast with a
slide rule?) Luckily for anyone who knows everything about a
caddis fly and nothing about a copolymer, RIO has done the
research.
Look no further than our more recent industry-changing
technologies—AgentX™ and Super Floatation Technologies™. We've
all wanted a higher floating line for a long time but, even as
remarkable as our fly lines are, they can’t float without a
little technological intervention. Traditionally, getting a line
to float has required mixing a bunch of tiny glass balls
(cleverly called microspheres) into the soupy coating compound
prior to the curing phase. The higher you want your line to
float, the more glass balls you must add. But this creates a
problem in that the microspheres can create a rougher,
microscopically abrasive coating that has less plastisol which
results in a structurally weaker fly line that cracks.
So, after years of experimenting with exotic compounds and
plenty of waist-deep R&D, our super-smart lab people in the
dust-free rooms discovered an element six times more buoyant
than those made by our competitors. Six times. But the right
element was just the start. It took an “exponential leap”
(that’s how the labcoats talk) in rethinking the manufacturing
process to put it all together. That is how RIO developed
"Fusion Technology" (used in all AgentX and SFT lines). By
simultaneously processing this super-buoyant undercoating with a
super-smooth outer coating (remember far fewer micropheres) the
results are the smoothest, most durable, and highest floating
fly lines imaginable.
And we didn’t stop there. If one coating of AgentX is so
buoyant, then two coats must be, well, really buoyant.
Introducing Super Floatation Technology, a manufacturing
technique that allows us to fuse two coatings of AgentX
seamlessly. No regular microspheres are used at all in SFT. This
specialized process is applied to the front four feet of the fly
line, producing a tip with a specific gravity of around 0.65.
Compare that to the standard s.g. of 0.88 or so and you get an
idea of just how significant this is. You can go look up
specific gravity now, but, trust us – 0.65 is incredibly good.
Better yet, go try it for yourself and see how productive
fishing with a tip that stays afloat can be.
That's revolutionary.
That’s what technology and passion can do.
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