St. Croix Avid Salmon & Steelhead Casting Rods Model: AVC86MF2 (8' 6", M)

by St. Croix of Park Falls, Ltd.

Product Features

• Premium, high-modulus SCIII graphite
• Extreme strength and durability while maintaining an incredibly light, super-sensitive feel
• Specialized, technique-specific designs
• Fuji Alconite Concept Guide System with black frames
• Fuji ECS or TCS reel seat / gun-smoke hoods

Product Description

Each of the seventeen different models of the St. Croix Avid Salmon Steelhead Casting Rod series are built with lightweight high-modulus SCIII graphite blank outfitted with a premium cork handle and Fuji reelseats. The Avid Salmon Steelhead Casting Rods have created a balance between price and outstanding quality. A long list of features makes the Avid series of rods an excellent choice.

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 3.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B000VTTD5I
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,110,149 in Sports & Outdoors (See Top 100 in Sports & Outdoors)

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5.0 out of 5 stars AVC86MF2 - One of the best in my collection, June 20, 2011

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This review is from: St. Croix Avid Salmon & Steelhead Casting Rods Model: AVC86MF2 (8' 6", M) (Misc.)

St. Croix Avid Salmon and Steelhead Casting Rods Model: AVC86MF2 (8'6 "", M) "- Casting Rods from company St. Croix, focused on catching of the salmon.

AVC86MF2 - New incarnation legendary Avid. The ascetic American ... or anything superfluous. A spinning possessing fine sensitivity perfectly copes with baits in all declared range of scales. With a power throw of problems it is not observed. Availability of a real guarantee can be carried to merits with confidence. Coming back to an estimation «the ascetic American» - it means that «a working horsy», 100 % functionality in the class. Thanks to high quality of switches, this series has been chosen by company Fuji that for the first time in the world to represent advantages of new system of arrangement of rings Fuji New Concept Guide system with insert Alconite. Forms are executed from the advanced graphite SC-III providing the maximum durability and sensitivity. The design of each model is calculated individually according to mission. Equipment - fixture of the coil and ring Fuji with inserts Alconite. A two-private design of the form.
Arrangement of rings: New Concept
Form material: SC-III
The spinning country-manufacturer: the USA
Fishing-rod type: Casting
Length (sm): 262
The bottom test on baits (gr): 7.0
The top test on baits (gr): 21.0
The bottom test on a scaffold (lb): 8
The top test on a scaffold (lb): 12
Fishing-rod class (on weight of baits): Medium (to 25)
Additional parameters
Fishing-rod weight: 164 gr
In the combined (sm): 133
Quantity of knees: 2
Type of connection of knees: "put over"
Handle type: the integral
Handle material: a stopper
Static system: fast (fast)
Dynamic system: fast (fast)

AVC86MF2 - One of the best in my collection. It is successfully used at catching of predatory fish in riverheads Volga and deep lakes Tourgay region by Kazahstan.

Yours faithfully, Evgeniy, Kostanay, Kazakhstan.
21/06/2011