PHYSYX Sequence expands with three ALL-NEW quick and extra-fast 100% hybrid carbon fiber MINNOW SHAKER spinning rods optimized for jighead-minnow shows
Launched simply 16 weeks in the past on the 2024 Bassmaster Traditional, St. Croix’s all-new PHYSYX Sequence of multispecies freshwater rods are conceived and designed to assist anglers bodily execute their psychological gameplan. Put merely, PHYSYX exists to raise the angling expertise by rising angler management in each bodily motion.
PHYSYX is a grasp of matter, movement, vitality, and pressure on the water as a result of its distinctive supplies and designs converge to manifest a greater machine. SCIV+ hybrid carbon fiber blanks, titanium guides, and anthropometric design mix to provide an developed lever and conductor of vitality. A molded carbon fiber TRIGON deal with, DYNAMIX reel seat, and rear set off afford bionic-level management, stability, tactile suggestions, and most consolation.
Delivered to anglers’ fingers August 1 and being proven for the primary time subsequent week at ICAST, three all-new 6’3″ and 6’6″ spinning fashions with 100%-tubular, hybrid carbon fiber, extra-fast and quick motion blanks– purpose-engineered and handcrafted to execute in style minnow-shaking strategies – broaden the PHYSYX Sequence to twenty-eight rods for 2025.
Tech-Ahead & Method-Particular
What’s 2.5 to five inches lengthy and weighs 1/16 to 1/2 ounce? One of many hottest lure sorts on tour – whether or not it’s a Rapala CrushCity Freeloader Pintail or Mooch Minnow, Large Chew Baits Scentsation Slim Minnow, Z-Man Scented Jerk ShadZ, Deps Sakamata Shad, Yamamoto Scope Shad, Strike King Z-Too, or one thing related that none of us have even seen but; these jig-and-plastic minnow mixtures are dominating aggressive bass fishing in any respect ranges.
“St. Croix exists to design and handcraft rods that give all anglers the higher hand,” says St. Croix Model supervisor, Ryan Educate. “Whether or not you might have $30,000 of electronics in your boat or no boat in any respect doesn’t matter to us. What issues right here in Park Falls is ensuring we’re providing the very best instruments for any job on the water. And in the case of shaking a jig and minnow, there’s no finer software 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 casts with lighter, smaller-profile jig-and-plastic mixtures,” says Educate. “It’s barely heavier twin – the PHXS63MXF – is the sniper. It retains the agile 6’3” size and extremely correct extra-fast tip however steps up the ability to medium as a way to deal with jighead-minnow rigs as much as half an oz.. The ultimate specialist within the group is the brand new PHYS66MLF, a longer-range 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 elevated casting distance, or for anybody who prefers to shake on a barely longer rod.”
Other than their technique-optimized lengths, powers, and actions, Educate says two standout options make these rods excel of their meant objective.
“The primary is the rear-trigger design on the brand new TRIGON Carbon handles,” Educate says. “I’m undecided what we’re going to do about it but, however after fishing PHYSYX rods, nearly all of our anglers have instructed us they don’t need to return to a rod with out a rear set off. There’s a phrase on your physique’s capacity to sense motion, motion, and site; it’s referred to as proprioception, and the rear-trigger design on PHYSYX rods merely provides casters a further bodily reference level that their brains and muscle groups can use to execute casts with elevated and repeatable accuracy.”
Educate says the second standout characteristic that helps these PHYSYX jig-and-minnow rods carry out higher of their meant objective – 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 exchange it with lighter and stiffer SCVI materials at key places alongside the size of each clean to optimize each flex traits and stability to completely help meant strategies. Plus, our IPC tooling and TET clean layups enable us to create these quick and extra-fast tubular carbon actions with none glass inserts within the ideas, which is the widespread apply within the business. Our design and manufacturing capability to perform it is a actually large deal as a result of that transition to glass that can provide a rod a extremely 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 basically do really feel like an extension of your personal physique.
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
St. Croix PHYSYX Sequence Options
- 17 casting fashions and 11 spinning fashions optimized for high-performance freshwater shows
- Subsequent-generation technique-specific hybrid carbon fiber SCIV+ blanks
- Method-specific iAct (SCIV+ and linear S-Glass) hybrid blanks on choose reaction-bait casting fashions
- Fortified Resin System (FRS) know-how
- Superior Reinforcing ExpertiseTM (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 Celebrity Service
- Designed and handcrafted in Park Falls, Wisconsin, U.S.A. for anglers worldwide
- Retail value $345 to $415
PHYSYX isn’t for everybody. It’s for anglers who demand each benefit a fishing rod can ship in as we speak’s handiest freshwater strategies and shows. Expertise the all-new PHYSYX Minnow Shaker rods within the Freshwater Rod class of the 2024 ICAST New Product Showcase, at ICAST On the Water, and within the St. Croix Sales space (#2223) at ICAST 2024. New PHXS63MLXF, PHXS63MXF, and PHXS66MLF fashions can be accessible for buy at St. Croix sellers worldwide and on-line at stcroixrods.com on August 1, 2024.
About St. Croix Rod
Headquartered 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 solely from design by means of manufacturing. The corporate stays family-owned and operates duplicate manufacturing amenities in Park Falls and Fresnillo, Mexico. With in style trademarked sequence comparable to Legend®, Legend Xtreme®, Avid®, Premier®, Imperial®, Triumph® and Mojo, St. Croix is revered by all varieties of anglers from around the globe.
