Echo Stillwater Opinions?
- Thread starter krusty
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I have both a 10 ft 6 wt Echo Stillwater and a 10 ft 6 wt Echo Lago. I got both last fall/early winter. I do a lot of casting with them, casting to the shoreline and stripping back as I work along the shoreline. I am a stillwater fanatic and have used both approximately 25 days since March, one with an intermediate line and one with a type III sink line. If I cast one, then the other, I can tell that the Lago is heavier, but I am 70 years old and casting it all day doesn't wear me out. Both cast extremely nicely and smoothly. One thing I like better about the Lago is that it has the little loop to hook your fly on by the handle, whereas my Stillwater doesn't have that hook holder, so I have to hook my fly to the biggest eyelet, which annoys me.
Interesting. Just shows that people are different. Because the distance from the rod tip top to the hook holder is typically less than the length of my leader, I nearly always loop my leader around the reel foot and then secure the fly to one or two guides up from the stripping guide. So I've always thought that the hook holder was superfluous and wished it wasn't there. I don't like for my leader butt section to be bent 180 degrees around the tip top since it's the stiffest part of the leader and is harder to stretch out relative to bending one of the lighter sections around the reel foot.