I went to the Orvis Warehouse sale in Charlotte recently, and came away very impressed. At the sale, Orvis had several of the new Helios rods being displayed for sale purposes.
The Helios line, is the lightest, strongest and most flexible fly-fishing rod Orvis has ever produced. These rods offer the latest technology in resins, to reduce the weight. That technology coupled with a new lighter reel seat, makes them the world's lightest fishing rods . The Orvis team spent over two years to develop and perfect the new line. Here Tom Rosenbauer sheds a little more insight as to who was responsible for that remarkable design.
Hi Jerry,
I was mainly responsible for the marketing of these rods. As in all products, everyone in Rod & Tackle including myself our CEO Perk Perkins and vice chairman Dave Perkins and even chairman of the board Leigh Perkins gets heavily involved with product development. But the people directly responsible for Helios development are:
Steve Hemkens, senior product developer
Andy Stone, rod designer
Frank Hoard, rod designer
Jim Logan, VP manufacturing and head of the rod shop.
Plus a top secret defense contractor but if I told you his name Keifer Sutherland would have a