Trout Spey / switch rod blank 10’6” #3/4 spey (275-350gn) (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. 

A medium line trout spey or light switch rod in 4-piece configuration.   Medium-fast progressive action, a superior performing blank with real zip made by the maker of our TIM, TNH and TNHX ranges in a blend of intermediate and higher modulus 30 +36 ton carbon fibre.  

Blank matt grey-brown carbon, semi-sanded finish, includes a black rod sock. 

For use where you might use a 5/6wt single handed rod including streamer fishing, also longer overhead casts with ease

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 short (14’-18’) head skagit 250-300 grains with a 5-8’ polyleader.  Full grain window 275-350gn head plus tip up to about 25’ combined.   

For Scandi applications try a single handed or compact head light spey style line of a similar or slightly lighter grain rating and a total head length including tip of 25-30' (if the line design requires one, a SH line may not). 

Overhead single-handed casting: This is the same blank we sell as the TIM 10667.   Not only a cracking light spey rod, it also performs very well standard overhead casting as a medium-fast action boat/loch style fly rod (AFFTA #6-7 line, 160-200gn).  

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.

Measurements

Tip: 1.45mm #4.0

Butt OD: 9.9mm

Cork check ID size at 12” for single-handed use: 9.0mm

Cork check ID size at 18” for double-handed use: 8.5mm

Guide spacing and blank details