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Oh, **** you.

You wish. But if you have to swing that way, there's this train station in
the fatherland.......

but Sage's marketing,
like many other companies, FFing and otherwise, borders on deceptive IMO

I generally don't buy new rods anymore, much less Sage rods but Sage does
push the envelope with various plastics and tapers. As I understand it, once
a rod's sales drop below a certain percentage, they essentially figure most
folks who want one already have one and come up with something else. Their
business model seems to work for them and alas, the Sage XP is not the Xi2
is not an LL much less an RPL. Their models do change but new and improved
is in the feel of the person doing the casting and fishing. That's why I
like the LL series, damn thing is so senstitive you can feel the fish fart.

And it's nice to know the Dean family doesn't do New and Improved just to
increase market share.