Simply two weeks after their debut at ICAST 2024, three all-new PHYSYX fashions are already accessible to St. Croix sellers and anglers
Whether or not anglers have $30,000 price of electronics on their boat or they’re fishing from the financial institution, St. Croix Rod exists to provide all of them the higher hand.
Damiki rigs and different minnow-shaking methods are an effective way to catch bass, which is why St. Croix developed three all-new PHYSYX spinning fashions optimized for the method. The PHXS63MLXF, PHXS63MXF, and PHXS66MLF have been revealed to the trade at ICAST simply final week and are already accessible to sellers and anglers, increasing the tech-forward PHYSYX lineup to twenty-eight rods for 2025.
“What issues right here in Park Falls is ensuring we’re providing the most effective instruments for any job on the water,” says St. Croix Model Supervisor, Ryan Educate. “And relating to shaking a jig and minnow, there’s no finer device accessible than these three new PHYSYX spinning rods.”
The Ninja within the group is PHXS63MLXF, a 6’3” medium-light energy, further quick spinning rod rated for six to 20-pound line and 1/16 to three/8-ounce lures. “That is the close-to-medium vary rod within the sequence optimized for extremely correct pitches with lighter, smaller-profile jig-and-plastic mixtures,” says Educate. “It’s barely heavier twin – the PHXS63MXF – is a the sniper. It retains the agile 6’3” size and extremely correct extra-fast tip however steps up the facility to medium with a view to deal with lures as much as half an oz. The ultimate specialist within the group is the brand new PHYS66MLF, an murderer that handles a variety of ultra-popular jig-and-minnow weights between 1/8 and three/8 ounce. The PHYS66MLF is the selection for anybody who prefers to shake on a bit longer rod.”
Except for their technique-optimized lengths, powers, and actions, Educate says two standout options make these rods excel of their supposed function.
“The primary is the brand new TRIGON Carbon handles,” Educate says. “There’s a phrase to your physique’s potential to sense motion, motion, and site; it’s known as proprioception, and the TRIGON deal with form with molded-in TPU grip strains give casters extra bodily reference factors that their brains and muscle tissue can use to execute pitches with elevated and repeatable accuracy.
Educate says the second standout function that helps these PHYSYX jig-and-minnow rods carry out higher of their supposed function – similar to each different rod within the PHYSYX Sequence – is their SCIV+ hybrid carbon fiber blanks.
“We actually don’t discuss it sufficient,” he says. “The SCIV+ layups for every of those fashions are fully distinct. Our designers take away heavier SCIV materials and change it with lighter and stiffer SCVI materials at key places alongside the size of each clean to optimize each flex traits and steadiness to completely help supposed methods. Plus, our IPC tooling and TET clean layups permit us to create these quick and extra-fast tubular carbon actions with none glass inserts within the suggestions, which is the frequent follow within the trade. Our design and manufacturing capability to perform this can be a actually large deal as a result of the transition to glass that may give a rod a very quick tip additionally comes at a price… as a result of it creates each a weak spot and a useless spot within the clean.”
Mix these unique, one-off hybrid-carbon tubular clean designs with titanium information trains and the brand new molded carbon fiber TRIGON handles and new carbon fiber reel seats which transmit vitality like no different St. Croix deal with design earlier than, and you find yourself with rods that actually do really feel like an extension of your personal physique.
St. Croix PHYSYX Sequence Options
17 casting fashions and 11 spinning fashions optimized for high-performance freshwater displays
Subsequent-generation technique-specific hybrid carbon fiber SCIV+ blanks
Approach-specific iAct (SCIV+ and linear S-Glass) hybrid blanks on choose reaction-bait fashions
Fortified Resin System (FRS) know-how
Superior Reinforcing TechnologyTM (ARTTM)
Built-in Poly Curve® (IPC®) mandrel know-how
Taper Enhancement Expertise (TET) clean design
Extremely-durable, inflexible titanium guides with silicon carbide rings
Anthropometrics-driven split-grip St. Croix TRIGON molded carbon fiber handles with high-tactile TPU accents and molded carbon fiber DYNAMIX reel seats for dramatically elevated consolation, management, and vitality transmission
Precision-machined aluminum reel seat nut
Mannequin-specific hook keepers
15-year transferable guarantee backed by St. Croix Famous person Service
Designed and handcrafted in Park Falls, Wisconsin, U.S.A. for anglers worldwide
Retail value $345 to $415
NEW St. Croix PHYSYX MINNOW SHAKER Spinning Fashions
PHXS63MLXF – 6’3”, medium-light energy, extra-fast motion, spinning / Retail $345
PHXS63MXF – 6’3”, medium energy, extra-fast motion, spinning / Retail $350
PHXS66MLF – 6’6”, medium-light energy, quick motion, spinning / Retail $355
PHYSYX isn’t for everybody. It’s for anglers who demand each benefit a fishing rod can ship in in the present day’s best freshwater methods and displays. New PHXS63MLXF, PHXS63MXF, and PHXS66MLF Minnow Shaker fashions can be found at St. Croix sellers worldwide and on-line at stcroixrods.com. Like each different PHYSYX mannequin, they’re handcrafted within the USA and are backed by a 15-year guarantee and uncompromising St. Croix service.
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About St. Croix RodHeadquartered in Park Falls, Wisconsin, St. Croix has been proudly crafting the “Greatest Rods on Earth” for 75 years. Combining state-of-the-art manufacturing processes with expert craftsmanship, St. Croix is the one main producer to nonetheless construct rods completely from design via manufacturing. The corporate stays family-owned and operates duplicate manufacturing amenities in Park Falls and Fresnillo, Mexico. With common trademarked sequence akin to Legend®, Legend Xtreme®, Avid®, Premier®, Imperial®, Triumph® and Mojo, St. Croix is revered by all sorts of anglers from around the globe.