Core30 12’ #6/7 Spey / Switch blank (400-550gn) (4-piece)

Buy one rod blank, get a second half price: Add any two fly rod blanks to your shopping cart from our Core30, Core40 and TIM (Taniwha intermediate modulus) ranges.  The combined price for the two blanks, or any multiple of two blanks (4,6, 8 etc) will be discounted by 25%, equivalent to buying the second blank of each pair half price. Discount applied at check out. 

Medium-fast, powerful progressive action 30T carbon blank in mid olive green gloss sanded finish, with a black rod sock.   

Suitable for surface and subsurface applications including summer grilse and salmon, sea trout, shorter T8 sinking tips 

Matching components kits available to complete your rod using the linked listings below

Line recommendations

Below grain weight and head length guidelines for water-anchored spey style roll casting based on our product testing.  Line preference is personal to your casting style and end use, be prepared to experiment. 

We preferred: A shorter (15’-22’) head skagit 400-450 grains with a  8-10’ polyleader.  Full grain window 400 - 450gn head plus tip up to about 25-30’ combined.   

For Scandi applications try a compact head light spey style line of a similar or slightly lighter grain rating and a total head length including tip of 25-35'. 

For rod testing we used flat mono shooting line and a poly tip or poly leader of 5-8’.   If using a poly tip (with a PVC loop both ends) finish off with a short (4-7’) tapered nylon leader for best fly turnover.  With a poly leader (PVC loop one end, nylon line the other) simply add an optional tippet ring and a few feet of your final tippet

Guide spacing and blank measurements