The Drift - Fly Fishing, Fly Casting and Fly Rod Building

Epic Carbon Fibre Fly Rod Blanks - Review by Snowman Custom Rod Works

Andrea and I have been beating around on the 590C (Andrea) and 690C (myself) for slightly over a year now. First impressions; mmmm black, I love the image of the raw carbon in lightly sanded state....

Epic Fly Rod Ready to Wrap Kit Review

Well, I've been fishing this rods for 2.5 weeks since completing the build of my 686 (Green). Not only is the rod F&CKING EPIC, but it casts tight loops, very accurate caster, has a great fee...

Bandit for the Fiberglass Manifesto pt1

Big Trev's busy down in the workshop cooking up a sweet Epic Bandit for Cameron Mortenson over at the Fiberglass ManifestoThere are 15 unique and separate processes involved in building an Epic f...

Fiberglass fly rods, E-Glass, S-Glass and why not all fiberglass fly rods are created equal.

Epic fiberglass fly rods are unique in that they are they are the only production rod in the world to be constructed using a fully unidirectional S-2 Glass fibre material.  Even today, most fiberg...

Macauley Lord

Here at Swift we get to build fly rods for some pretty interesting customers and from all walks of life. There are more than a couple of rock stars and at least one mega movie star (that we know of...