"Gaelic Supreme"
Premium Crafted Graphite Fly Rods

Reflect Anglers Demands For Classic Fishing Performance
Made in the USA


Gaelic Supreme rods are designed to travel with you.
Wherever you go, there you are...and with your rods.


The length of the pieces are 38" for travel. Conveniently, this makes ideal length rods. It is also very convenient to be able to take 12', 15', 18', 21' and 24' rods all in one small rod case.
We offer a small range of rods for the angler who is seeking the ultimate experience in fly fishing: double handed true spey fishing rods are our speciality. To this range we have added double handed utility rods that handle shooting heads and overhead casting. This small range of rods cover the principle sizes and styles to cover the serious fly anglers requirements.


"Gaelic Supreme" Paul Brown Classic Spey Rods


Paul Brown Tribute Classic Spey rod is offered for the discriminating angler who has been searching for the ultimate spey rod. These rods are crafted for an angler with a subtle awareness of a truely delightful rod action and fine craftsmanship in manufacture and finish. These rods are so sweet they sing on the river bank.

Our tribute rods are crafted from the optimum materials for each section of each particular model rod.

Rods are a medium brown, have custom silk wraps, custom guides and reel seats and have the Serial # on each section. The rods are totally custom made for the connoisseur.

The spey cork handle is a classic double handed style with a long, slim foregrip developed by Paul and since confirmed as the best ergonomic diameter for comfort and performance. The fittings are all custom made18% german silver with a downlocking reel seat, waisted end cap with removable rubber button and a matching front cork check.

Gaelic Supreme Paul Brown Tribute Rods come complete with a rod sack and tube, and have the Serial #, Model #, Length & Line Weight on the butt and the serial # on each section. Travel cases for multiple rods are an optional extra at time of purchase. As rods are available we mark their box with an asterisk (*).



Gaelic Supreme "Paul Brown" Classic Spey Rods
Length
12'
15'
15'
18'
21'
24'
No. of Pieces
4
5
5
6
7
8
Line Weights
#5
#8
#11
#11
#11
#11
SRP
$1275.00
$1575.00
$1575.00
$1875.00
$2175.00
$2475.00




"Gaelic Supreme Classic Spey"
Double Handed Fly Rods


Spey fishing with a double taper floating line (or one of our silk lines, greased) is one of the most enjoyable and productive forms of fly fishing. Our Classic Spey Rods range from a 12', #5 for small rivers to a 24', #11 for big rivers and heavy water. The 15' range of spey rods is the modern spey length. The 18' and 21' are classic lengths from when spey fishing with greenheart rods was the norm before WW11.
Our spey rods are the first "classic spey" action rods built from modern materials and designed specially to spey fish double taper lines. They duplicate the action and "feel" of greenheart rods of a hundred years ago, but at less than 20% of the weight.
"Classic Spey" rods are designed specifically for spey fishing and spey casting double taper lines, and they do it with minimum effort and maximum joy. These are the traditional "Greased Line" spey fishing rods, designed for fishing in conditions from calm to near gale force conditions. No other rods will cast double taper lines in wind like our rods, and there is always wind on the best salmon and steelhead rivers. These rods are a very versatile fishing rod for fishing a river with varied flows of pools, riffles, pockets and holes. The timing of the rod allows an angler to manipulate a fly and line.

The 18', 21' and 24' rods are classic "Fine and Far Off" spey rods for large waters and incredible line control. The 15' range are a modern classic spey length and are the most versatile rod in an anglers bag. The 15' rods are very easy to learn spey casting and will handle medium rivers. The 12' and the 15' range is suited to small and medium size rivers. The 15' rods are also very good for children and petite women to learn spey fishing as they are so light, although the #8wt, 15' spey rod will handle 90% of the fishing conditions in North America. The 12' rods are ideal for smaller streams and especially Great Lakes tributaries where anglers can fish small and medium sized streams in the same morning.
Gaelic Supreme rods are a dark green (forest green) colour. The wraps are a forest green also.

All fittings are custom for our rods. Fittings are aluminum on standard rods and 18% german silver on "Paul Brown Special" rods. The reel seats are down locking. The waisted butt caps and cork forechecks are a very elegant and functional finishing touch to our unique rods. The rubber button is removable and can be swapped to a smaller or larger one to balance the rod.
The handle is a classic early English bamboo rod style except ours have a 15/16" diameter foregrip which has been proven to be the most comfortable ergonomic diameter. This size grip has only just been proved best in the rest of the world, but Paul Brown used this size grip on his rods thirty years ago! Custom handles are available: people with very large/large hands should have a 1" diameter grip and people with verysmall/small hands should have a 7/8" diameter grip.

Gaelic Supreme rods come complete with a green codura covered carrying case and a rod bag. Travel cases for multiple rods are an optional extra at time of purchase. As rods are available we mark their box with an asterisk (*).



Gaelic Supreme Classic Spey Rods
Length
18'
21'
24'
No. of Pieces
6
7
8
Line Weights
#11
#11
#11
SRP
$1275.00
$1475.00
$1675.00






Utility Double Handed Rods.

The #8 and #11 weight rods are a progressive action for overhead, shooting head and modified spey casting. The rest of our Double Handed rods are Classic Spey action.

15' 5 Piece Gaelic Supreme Classic Spey
and Utiliy Double Handed Rods
Style
*Spey*
Utiliy
Spey
Utility
Line Weights
#8
#8
#11
#11
SRP
$1075.00
$1075.00
$1075.00
$1075.00


12' 4 Piece Gaelic Supreme Classic Spey
and Utility Double Handed Rods
Style
Spey
Spey
Spey
Utility
Line Weights
#5
#8
#11
#11
SRP
$885.00
$885.00
$885.00
$885.00





Some Observations On Spey Fishing and Double Handed Fly Rods

There has been a great deal of change in double handed rods and fishing with them since 1900. Rod materials have moved from greenheart to bamboo to fibreglass and graphite, etc..
Spey fishing was introduced to as a really efficient and effective method to make difficult fishing conditions easy to handle. Wet and windy conditions with no room behind for extending the line; big water with high and heavy conditions are often ecountered in Winter, Spring and Autumn fishing conditions. The angler is often required to control the line and fly at long distances in these conditions. Spey casting with a long rod has been found to be the optimum solution for these conditions. Spey casting will permit the angler to exert line control at long distances.
Classic spey rods require a butt action to slow the tempo of the rod together with a strong and steady power all the way through the tip to project easy power and control over both long and short lines. Spey rods 100 years ago were traditionally over 20' for Winter and Spring fishing in heavy water and 18' and 15' for Summer fishing and low water conditions. Selecting the correct length of rod for the expected river conditions is similar to selecting the correct shotgun for shooting, you can be overgunned and make it work, but being under-gunned makes it very difficult to work efficienctly and effectively.
Versatility in fishing very different types of water and very different weather conditions is not generally acknowledged as a classic spey fishing characteristic, but that is exactly why the technique has been used with great success for a hundred years. From a calm, sunny, Summer day to a near gale with horizontal sleet in February is equally suited weather conditions for spey fishing. Exceptional control of the line, fly and drift is a feature of spey fishing that is not replicated in other forms of fly fishing. Manipulating the line and fly through a drift, whether through a classic swing or through skinny pockets and holes is the hallmark of spey fishing.
Classic spey fishing is one of the most enjoyable experiences in fly fishing which happily also happens to be one of the most efficient ways to fish.
Over the last 50 years fly lines have changed as much as fly rods, in fact the changing lines have help cause major changes in rod design, developing from double tapered silk lines to many different tapers of plastic lines and in paricular, shooting heads of both the floating and sinking types.
The classic spey fishing technique with a double taper greased silk line has been overrun by other techniques. First, forward taper lines and now shooting heads have become a very popular method of fishing with double handed rods. Casting methods for shooting heads, particularly fast sinking shooting heads vary considerably from traditional spey casts.
Shooting head rods require a different action for the different casting actions; an action that is close to a single handed progressive rod action. Shooting head rods will spey cast double taper lines with far less efficency and effectiveness than the classic spey action.
Shooting head fishing is most appropriate when saltwater fishing which is usually suited to overhead casting and sinking shooting head lines.


Gaelic Supreme Fly Rods: the best rods crafted for the angler to enjoy and use as the best fishing tool.

Gaelic Supreme Rods will be available as we develop each particular rod. As rods are available we mark their box with and asterisk (*).

Please Email or call to enquire about availability before ordering.

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