I used to have a video on YouTube of me with a 22# Redfish on one of my 9wt Fly rods. It showed me twisting my body wrapping the rod around myself trying to break it. My Buddy who was filming shouted "You're going to break the rod! I said I'm trying to!". The look on his face after that was priceless. He's used to fishing with $1000 Orvis fly rods and his mind could not go to a place where my rods were any less quality because we flat out Kicked some Bull Red Booty that day and the rods were flawless through it all. They fish like a big money rod. Everything Rojo Grande is environmentally engineered for a Saltwater Angler.