TFO Rods - Bluewater

These Temple Fork Fly Rods will survive the battle.

Fulls Wells + Foregrip standard on all Bluewater

Lifting power is the name of the game on the offshore grounds and TFO’s hybrid S-glass sticks in combination with IM6 graphite are built to do battle. If you’re chasing brutes like billfish, tuna, trevally, and sharks these are the sticks you want to have in your arsenal. Of course, getting the fly to the fish is a vital part of the game and you’ll find that this series can deliver the goods from pint size poppers to feather duster–like streamers.

To provide increased power and durability we put our blue water blanks through the TiCr coating process twice. The top quality components include up locking reel seats, flor grade cork, a full wells grip with a fore grip and a unique blue granite finish. In big game fishing where second-rate gear is quickly relegated to the junk pile it’s all important to equip yourself with the right stuff. Get into the contest with rods that truly live up to their name: TFO’s Bluewater series.

Features:
Fast action

Proprietary Hybrid S-Glass/Graphite technology for improved strength and durability

Cryogenically treated TiCr2 Coating

Precision Blank Over Ferrule Technology

Blue granite finish with silver trim

Machined and anodized channel-locking aluminum reel seat
'AA' grade Portugese cork

Colour-coded alignment dots for easy assembly

Baby Bluewater and Light Duty rods have oversized titanium oxide stripping guides and hard chrome stainless steel snake guides with oversized tip top

Medium Duty and Heavy Duty rods have oversized aluminum oxide inserts on all guides

TFO Lefty Kreh Bluewater rods use a hybrid of S-Glass for strength and IM6 graphite for performance. Here's how the idea came about:

The Problem
Modern graphite fly rods have come a long way in their ability to be used for fishing for saltwater species. With super fast actions, saltwater rods can develop blazing line speeds and cast big flies long distances with good accuracy. The problem, however, is not casting to fish and hooking them... it's landing them. Graphite fly rods run into trouble when the fish gets to the boat; graphite as a material simply isn't that efficient at vertically lifting heavy weight, something that's necessary when trying to land a 150lb tarpon.

The Solution
We approached our rod designer with this problem and he came back to us with the revolutionary Bluewater design. Bluewater rods use an S-Glass butt section to provide the strength needed to vertically lift the largest saltwater species. S-Glass is a highly specialized variant of fibreglass with a tensile strength of over 1.5 times that of carbon fiber (graphite). Unfortunately, what you gain in strength from S-Glass you lose in castability. Therefore, the remaining sections of the Bluewater rods use IM6 graphite to create a fast action, smooth casting rod. Essentially, this combination of materials delivers all of the benefits of S-Glass without sacrificing the true feel of a fly rod.

TiCr2 technology was developed for saltwater enthusiasts who need the strongest rod possible when fighting big saltwater fish. All rods using this technology are bathed in our proprietary coating not once but twice. The first coating is cured before applying a second coating which is cryogenically treated, a process which reduces residual stresses that are inherent in the manufacturing process of any product. The cryogenic treatment tightens the molecular structure of the rod, making it stronger when playing fish and even more resistant to breakage from errant flies and other potential hazards.