About 20 years ago there was a plethora of rods on the market called "Loch Style". As single handed fly rods they were long, heavy, floppy and lumbering. Some of them were as long as 13 feet, with the average about 11 1/2 feet I guess.

But just as quickly as they appeared, they went out of favour, and people today tend to use a much more managable weapon of 10 feet for their boat "over the front" style of fishing.

But why on earth did they become so popular?

good question,i still have and use amoungst other rods, my 10ft 6 ,7 weight diawa altmore,i got it from kevin mcguire in the earlie 90,s in dundee for fishing leven. super rod, far from lumbering or floppy, little more relaxed casting style possibly but thats as long a rod as ive fished with.

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Somewhere in my loft there's a 10 foot 6 inch, #7/9 berkely fly rod, I haven't seen it for about 30years, I seem to remember it cast a decent line, I'll have to have a root around and see just what else is up there, who knows......

Noticed a Loch Style outfit the opther day on game fishing shop website, cannot rember the site or the price but it was rod, floss line loaded on a reel and selection dry flies such as daddies. I think the rod was 13ft in length and was not a traditional fly rod. Might have been a Shakespear.

Have a wild guess Ron.

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I bought a Hardy Drifter in 1977 from Hardys, in London when I worked there. It was 11feet 3inches and it was lovely. It cost about £60. It is now being sold I believe for £600. Bear mentioned this in a post. I gave it to a friend who looked after our house in Leitrim. He never used it and I don't know where he lives now. Worse, it had a Hardy Marquis reel on it. I still use a Marquis dating to that period and find them excellent for Lough fishing
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Hi' Ron. I have 6 Daiwas, two of them are 11ft 6Wt and 11ft3in 7Wt carbons, respectively. Old fogies like me, who have strong wrists -- that's where they went!! My longest Daiwa is a 12ft, double-handed salmon fly rod, and I could cast a fair length of line with that, single-handed, while extending the cast before doing the serious stuff. They weren't really heavy, only relatively so. TC
PS My old Rudge Duchess, 11ft 7Wt single-handed, split-cane, grilse rod -- now that was heavy!!

Do not know who conjured up this name " Loch Style" but I suspect English & The Angling Press. For us that know & fish the wild waters we are content within ourselves on how we fish & what with. All those years ago we used what was there & what was there was perfectly fine at the time. Things have moved on since my youthful days but the stupid name " Loch Style" remains. I still use a Daiwa Amorphous Whisker 11.3 & I do not find it heavy or cumbersome in the least despite it's vintage........ maybe I am just made of sterner stuff than you soft southerners. I tel you one thing though they never broke, not like some the of the junk in todays market place oh but we have "unlimited warranty" so that makes it all right.

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They have disappeared because they are not very good for chucking a Hi-D with a couple of large lures attached.

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So blobs on DI 7s took over eh?

I owned one of these loch style rods ca 1987. Used it a couple of times before it nearly broke my wrist. It was a Daiwa 11 footer if I remember right, sloppy as hell.