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Frequent Flyer 865-7 Fly Rod

Frequent Flyer 865-7 Fly Rod

This fly rod is travel-ready. The Frequent Flyer™ packs right into your backpack, saddlebag, even your briefcase. Fly rod is great to travel with as you can carry it onto any plane without worrying about your fly rod making it to your final fishing destination. Keep the fly rod right in your vehicle, out of the way, for quick getaways at lunch, or pack it into the backcountry far easier than even a four-piece rod. Seven-piece rods for fresh and salt water, all in the most affordable, high-quality, high-performance travel rods on the market today. Built to our exact taper design, component, and production specifications, every step of the overseas production is supervised by Orvis. Take a Flyer!

Average Customer Rating: 4 out of 5 4 out of 5
3 of 3 (100%) customers would recommend this product to a friend.

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Customer Reviews for Frequent Flyer 865-7 Fly Rod

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Overall Rating: 4 out of 5 4 / 5
December 28, 2009
By: marcusw

"Got this combo as a Christmas gift from a law firm whose services I had occasion to use extensively over several professional files. Having become a bamboo devotee with silk lines a must I thought I would never use it. But of course I have - extensively - taking it places I would never otherwise have taken a rod. I have had earlier travel rods from other manufacturers which did not impress. But this combo is so well matched you can almost use it any where for anything and its a pleasure to fish - which I can't say for all plastic rods which I come back to from time to time from bamboo. Its been to Belize in case I had chance to chase bonefish (yes) while on business, and landed steelhead in BC while at a seminar, taken good sizedbrookies in Maine when I was driving through, travelled to the Coloncura in Patagonia as backup to my bamboo weapons, and in the hands of visiting friends taken little brook trout from the lake I live on. I am really glad to own this outfit which I would likely not have bought for myself."

Review 2 for Frequent Flyer 865-7 Fly Rod

Overall Rating: 4 out of 5 4 / 5
Well worth the Money, October 31, 2009
By: Kreggor

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"I travel western north america for work and there is great fishing in almost every place I visit. Taking my gear along is much less of a hassel now that I do not have to worry about where my fly rod is going to go. If you do any flying at all. I would get one of these for your suit case. I have landed whitefish on the Metolius in OR to 23 inch rainbows on the clark fork in MT. I even hooked a stealhead on the North Umpqua but my leader snapped."

Review 3 for Frequent Flyer 865-7 Fly Rod

Overall Rating: 4 out of 5 4 / 5
July 14, 2004
By: J. Sorento

"Okay, now you did it. I was so impressed with the Clearwater Series rods that I wanted to try the Frequent Flyer Rods. I purchased the 865-7, put it together, attached my reel loaded with Wonderline 5WTF and started a series of casts. The distance ranged from up close to "out-there". This rod with its MIDFLEX action absolutely does it all. Now that IS something to shout about! Not only does it cast very well it packs down to next to nothing for travel. Orvis- "Thank You""

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