You may wonder what is actually the difference and why are we doing both four and six piece models? Well, first of all, and the most obvious of them is the travel friendliness of a six piece rod. The fact that you can actually pack them in a big roller bag or duffle bag is really a big advantage today when both costs and and the risk of losing your gear are much, much higher if you have to place them in a separate luggage. Very often I hear arguments against six piece rods, because I think there is an old misconception about 6 pc rods being pretty heavy because of all the extra ferrules which actually there’s only two. And because they also should have a tendency to be slow, heavy, not as crisp and fast as a four piece rods. That probably was the case if you go back 15-20 years in time. But the technology and ferrule manufacturing today and also in the new materials that we are using has really improved this six piece version of a rod very, very much.

I must say to be honest today, I think several of my absolute favorite rods are six piece rods. And it’s for no other reason than that I think that they perform just fantastic to me when I am casting and fishing. I’ve sort of been giving it a lot of thought to what it is that sometimes makes a six piece rod to me feel better in the hand than a four piece rod does, because I tried to design the same rod length and the same line weight rod equal, no matter how many parts. And yet sometimes and quite often I find that there’s something in the six piece rod that actually just gives that rod a slight edge over the four piece, and I can’t really point my finger and say – This is the reason. I can put those rods on my wall when I design them, I load them up with weights, I compare curves and they are often extremely similar or dead similar. Yet when I cast them, there is a slight feeling of difference between them, and very often to advantage of the rod with 6 pieces.

The one theory that I’ve sort of come up with goes back to the early 2000´s when we were creating our range of LeCie rods. In those days the LeCie range were state of the art rods and series that was very, very sophisticated for its time, and it was made as a three piece range, which was very common in those days for double hand rods. But those rods had something special in the top third of the blank, that means the tip section of the rod, because that part would be long and uninterrupted from any kind of ferrules. And the day we actually transform those three piece rods into four piece models, we were forced to put one ferrule in that vital part of the tip section and ´interrupt´ the action that we had in those three piece sections before.