We are so excited about the upcoming fishing season—Come on spring!—that we’re gonna try to kick-start the warming trend by giving away a Helios 2 fly rod. We are calling this the “Where Would You Go? Contest” to give you, and ourselves, a chance to dream about an incredible fly-fishing experience. Imagine that you had unlimited time, unlimited funds, and the Helios 2 of your choice. What would you do with these gifts?
Here’s how the contest works:
In the comments below, tell us three things:
- Which Helios 2 model you would choose
- Where you would go fishing
- What species you would pursue.
The contest runs through March 30, and one winner will be chosen at random to receive the Helios 2 of his or her choice. In the meantime, we look forward to seeing how many different, varied, and wonderful dream trips you can conjure up.
So, leave your three-part comment below and then use the widget to enter the contest! (To choose which model you’d like to use, visit the Helios 2 page.)
9ft 6wt mid flex for smallies in Wisconsin!
8′-4″ 3 wt
Upper Mag, Maine
Brookies
Helios 2 8-weight 10′ Fly Rod—Tip Flex
9ft 6 wt mid flex rainbow trout at roaring river state park
Helios 2 10-weight 9′ Fly Rod—Tip Flex on Christmas Island for giant trevally.
5-weight 9′ Mid Flex
for large grayling
at river Mürz, Austria
9ft 4wt Tip Flex, I’d head for the Hight Backcountry of WY to chase down Trophy Golden Trout!!!!!
11′ 8wt Switch….Islamorada Florida….hook into some Tarpon and Bonefish
Cuba. For the grand slam with a Helios 12wt for Tarpon and a Helios 10wt for Permit
I would like an Orvis Helios 9′ 10 wt. Big Game rod so that I could go muskie fishing in Canada.
I would like an Helios 9′ 6 wt. to catch smallmouth bass on the Susquehanna River.
10ft 6wt mid flex
a hidden canyon stream in New Zealand
Big ‘ole browns!
St. Mary’s Atlantic Salmon, St. Mary, Michigan with Helios 2 5-weight 10′ Fly Rod—Tip Flex.
9ft 8wt to go fishing in the Lowlands of South Carolina for Redfish.
8′-4″ 3 wt for brook trout in vermont
9′ 6WT
San Juan River for the biggest rainbows I can imagine.
8′ 4WT
Firehole River
Wild Yellowstone cuttys
8’6 5wt Freshwater mid-flex for brown trout in Iceland or back country Montana!
9′ 5wt fishing for trout in the Big Horn Mountain’s in Wyoming, around the Ranchester area. I would love a Helios 2 fly rod.
I’d love to get my hands on a Helios 2 6-weight 9′ Fly Rod—Tip Flex and chase Payara in South America!
9′ 10wt for musky all over the Great Lakes and the Midwest.
9′ 6wt for smallies in TN
11 ft 8wt switch Tierra del Fuego for sea run browns
1. Helios 2 10-weight 9′ Fly Rod—Tip Flex
2. White River, Ontario, Canada
3. Pike
Rod of choice would have to be the 14wt 8’6″ tip flex.
I’d fish the Dampier Archipelago islands off Western Australia. For tiger shark above 200kg pushing that rod to it’s limits!
11′ 9wt Switch
the Mighty Cains River NB
Atlantic Salmon
H2 9′ 7wt- Taimen in Mongolia
9′ 6wt
New Zealand
Big Browns !
Helios 2 10-weight 9′ Fly Rod—Tip Flex
Clear Fork Reservoir
MUSKY!
1. Helios 2 12 wt 9′
2. Mongolia
3. Taimen
9ft 9 wt tip flex going after Taimen in Mongolia.
Helios 2 – 5wt 9′ Midflex
South fork of the Snake River, Irwin ID
Brown, Cutthroat, or Rainbow
Helios 2 8-weight 9′ Fly Rod—Tip Flex
Rio Dulce Argentina
Golden dorado fish
i want this model Helios 2 5-weight 10′ Fly Rod—Tip Flex to pursue trout all over America and one day the world
I’d love a Helios 2 freshwater! Would use in Wisconsin all the time. But would LOVE to take it somewhere in the Pacific Northwest on a trip for trout!
9ft 7w i would love to go up to alaska and fish for wild alaskan salmon
Helo2 freshwater or spey 9ft 8wt I’m planning to fish every weekend steal head alley Ohio and pa and some Canada northerns
5W 9′ Mid Flex, Upper West Branch Delaware River, Brown Trout
9′ 9 Weight
Vancouver Island
Salmon and Steelhead
9 ft 6 wt.mid flex for marble trout on soca river slovenia
Helios 2 7-weight 9′ Fly Rod—Tip Flex
Steelhead
Nottawasaga river in Southern Ontario
9ft 5wt mid FLex
Roscoe, ny
For brown trout
9ft 5wt mid flex
Roscoe ny
Brown trout
9ft 5wt mid flex
Roscoe, ny
Brown trout
6′-2 WT Mid flex in the North Carolina Mountains for Southern Appalachian Brookies.
Chasing reds and speckled trout on the flats in the Florida panhandle off of my paddle board. 9′ 6 weight. Nothing more exciting than getting pulled around by those bruisers.
10ft. 5wt tip flex for spring creek trout on the Fall River, CA
11′ 8 wt chasing steelhead, salmon, and dollies in southern Alaska
Saltwater 9ft 8wt for Charleston, SC redfish!
9ft 6wt tip flex
multi stop trip: South Africa, Slovenia, Ukraine
Golden Dorado , Marble Trout
Helios 2 Switch 6 Wt; British Columbia; Steelhead. Like Willy Sutton said — that’s where the fish are.
Helios 2 9-weight 9′ Fly Rod—Tip Flex – The Miramichi – Atlantic Salmon
1.)Helios 2 Freshwater 8′-6″ 5wt. Mid Flex
2.) South Holston River
3.) Salmo trutta – The Mighty Brown Trout
9ft. 8wt. Tip Flex
Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, Minnesota
The Biggest Smallmouth this world has to offer
Trip is planned already, now I just need the rod.
Hope your trip works out well. I’ve slammed some football smallies in QPP with a 9′ 8wt. Hydros! What a blast!
9ft 8-wt tip flex for Atlantic Salmon on the Gaspe Peninsula!
1. Helios 2 5WT 9′ Mid-flex rod
2. Zako River in Shiga Kogen, Japan- A river of perfection
3. Wild Char
1. Helios 2 9-weight 11′ Fly Rod—Tip Flex
2. Alaska (All of it)
3. Steelhead
8 wt tip flex for carp in urban waters.
Helios 2 Freshwater – 5wt, 8’6″
Home waters in Utah and Montana
-Dream trip to New Zealand
Brown Trout
I would choose a 7’6″. 3 Weight. Mid Flex. Helios 2.
I would fish in Rocky Mountain National park in the mountains.
The species I would chase after would be brook trout and cutthroat trout.
Freshwater 8’6″ 4wt
All over the finger lakes tribs
browns, bows and bass
9ft 10 wt for Roosterfish in Baja, Mexico.
10ft 5wt mid
New Zealand
sight fishing for HUGE browns and bows
1. Helios 2 8-weight 11′ Switch Rod—Tip Flex
2. Anywhere in Oregon!
3. Steelhead, aka The Man in The Silver Suit!!
1. Helios 2 Big Game 9′ 9wt
2. I would either go to Brazil/Columbia
3. The species would be huge peacock bass!
5wt 9ft Tip Flex; Bozeman MT, stopping through Casper, WY to fish the North Platte on the way; after trout all day.
9 ft 8wt. I live in New York and one of the best trips I’ve ever had was to the Louisiana Marsh. Fly fishing on a flats boat as we hunted for Red fish. It was my first time sight fishing on a flats boat and I’ve been dreaming of doing it again ever since!
The H2 4wt Tip flex for Browns…. Casting through tall grass and between trees, Flipping, hopping and twitching poppers along my favourite trout creeks in Ontario.
1) 2wt 6ft mid flex
2) The Great Smoky Mountains National Park
3) Southern Appalachian Brook Trout!!
9′ 6wt Upper Damn Maine, Landlocked Salmon
9′ 9wt Mongolia Taimen!!!
1) 9ft 11wt tip flex
2) South pass of Boca Grande
3) For migratory tarpon
10′ 3wt
AuSable River in Michigan.
Trout
I’d want a 6-weight 9’6″—Tip Flex to go after giant rainbows and Asiatic kundzha char on the Kamchatka Peninsula.
mid flex 7’6 3wt brookies in the back woods ponds of N.H.
Helios 2 10′ 5wt.
North Island, New Zealand
New Zealand monster brown trout!!
9′ 6wt tip flex Helios 2. Bombing streamers for smallies on the St Croix River, Maine!
1) 9wt 9ft tip flex
2) Islamorada Florida
3) mahi mahi
10ft 4wt in the letort
1) Saltwater 9′ 8wt tip flex
2) Mongolia
3) Taimen
1) 9ft saltwater 10 weight
2) Alphonse Island in the Seychelles
3) Milkfish
1.9ft 12 weight
2.Guanaja island near Honduras
3. Tarpon
Thank-Yall
9’4weight – dries on the rapid river in maine.
Helios 2 11′ – 6 weight switch, all over the pacific northwest for wild steelhead and back country bull trout
Helios 2 9′ 6wt tip flex to cut through the Wyoming winds on the Big Horn river for browns, bows, and cutties all day long and don’t forget the occasional carp too!!!!!!
10′ 8wgt for Wild Atlantic salmon anywhere I could find them…Canada,Scotland,Norway,Russia .
9 foot 12 wt
San diego
Makos
Helios 2 8’6″ 14 wt
Ocean City, MD
White Marlin
Helios 2 8 wt. 9′ Mid Flex
Andros island Bahamas
Bonefish, of course
9ft 8wt Helios 2
Ft Lauderdale
Snook, redfish, trout and permit!!!
Helios 2 9ft 9wt
Biscayne Bay and Key Largo
Snook and Redfish!!
9ft 6wt
North Ga Mountains
Rainbow and brown trout
(1) 8’6″ 5wt mid flex
(2) Deschutes River, OR
(3) Redsides
For me, an easy answer:
1. Helios 2: 12-weight, 9 foot, tip flex;
2. Definitely the Seychelles. Any one of the atolls I could get to: Alphonse, Farqhuar, Cosmoledo, Desroches, St Brandons…
3. Giant Trevally.
The dream continues.
I’d take the 10′ 8 wt on my dream trip to Patagonia and fish the Rio Pico and surrounding waters for monster Browns and Brookies!
10 ft 8 wt in Alaska for salmon
9′ 5wt tip
Anywhere!
Brownies
10 foot 5 weight.
I am heading to Yellowstone this summer and I am in the market now.. this would sure help!!!
6′ 2 wt mid flex- small brook where no one could find me chasing native brookies
9′ 5 wt. tip flex
Wild brown trout
Penns Creek
I would love to be soaking in the sunshine out in meadow fishing one of those very crooked, yet incredibly peaceful mountain streams for wild trout with a Helios 2 9′ 4wt Mid-Flex.
9ft 8wt For flats fishing the Florida Keys!
For bonefish/permit
9′ 8 weight, tip flex
Key West, FL
Tarpon
Helios 2 – 9 ft 5 weight mid flex, West Branch Delaware River, brown trout
10 ft 5wt
Montana
Brown trout
10′ 3wt tip flex penns creek
Brown trout
9ft 5wt tip flex. Northwestern Wyoming the place I learned to fly fish and catch yellowstone cutthroats
helios 2 9ft 5 wt mid flex
South fork flathead Bob marshall wilderness
Cutthroats
9′ 6wt Any where an everywhere I could get a tight line for trout..
1. 9′, 8 wt. tip flex
2. Deschutes River Oregon
3. Salmon
Helios 2 Switch 6-weight 11′ Fly Rod—Tip Flex
Deschutes
Steelhead
9 wt switch rod
Dean river British Columbia for Steelhead.
1. Helios 2 5-weight 9′ Fly Rod—Mid Flex
2. Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
3. Rainbow, brown and Brook
Oooooooo, Definitely the 11 foot 6 weight switch. That way I could go up the North Shore in Minnesota to swing for steelhead then use the same rig just up the road for pike and smallies in the boundary waters.
I lived thru a Minnesota winter. I deserve this. Pick me! Pick me! Pick me!
I think a 9′ 8wt, then travel back in time to 1850s Hoh River in Washington State to find some Chrome!
A 9′ 8 wt to sight cast tailing reds on the flats around port aransas tx would be awesome!
Take a 10 ft Helios 2 to New Zealand for big brown trout
Helios 2 10ft 5wt fly rod. Russia. Trout Rainbow
I’d take a 9′ 7wt. saltwater rod all the way to eastern Australia to drag a popper across every bit of cover in sight waiting and holding my breath for the heart-stopping slam of the estuarial Australian Bass.
Helios 2 – 9′ 6wt.
Fishing the Devil’s River in Texas for the slammin’ bass it holds.
9′ 8wt
Stripers
California delta
1.)Helios 2 Freshwater 8′-6″ 5wt. Mid Flex
2.)Rivers of New Zealand
3.)Big Brown Trout
I would take the Helios 2 10’ 3wt to the San river in south-east Poland to live out my passion for fly fishing with dry fly and nymph. Then back home to my beloved river Don for winter grayling nymphing.
Helios 2 8’6″ 14 wt
Christmas Island
Giant Travalie
Helios 2 6weight 9 to n.Ireland, six mile river, for Dollaghan trout. Using small wet flies
9′ 5wt. Yellowstone for Trout.
9ft. 6wt for Rainbows in the White River AR!
Helios 2 9′ 5 wt maybe a 8’6″ 4 wt
For the Rockies, Great Lakes, Upper New England States on any stream or river not too big……. with a fly I tied and a hand made furled leader……. a crisp morning sun warming my soul…… or the rain cleansing my skin……a quiet gentle breeze is preferred (because of my casting ability)…….. Oh yea maybe a rainbow, brown, or………
8’6″ mid flex 5 wt for rainbows in Colorado!
A bucket list trip!
1. The Helios 2 Mid Flex 4-wt 8ft 6ins would be my choice.
2. The River Eden in the beautiful Cumbrian English countryside is my dream destination.
3. The Wild Brownies, difficult to spot, hard to fool but exhilarating to catch.
Saltwater 9′ 10wt, Florida Keys for Permit.
I can’t believe how many people would stay on the continent with unlimited funds. I would have to do days of research but off the top of my head…
1. I would want a 9′ 5wt for trout, because I’d use it all the time in the northeast here, even though it might be too light for
2. Kamchatka’s
3. Steelhead and Rainbows
1. Helios 2: 5wt. 9′ Mid Flex.
2. All NC mountain trout waters for an entire season. But start on the remote Hazel Creek.
3. All 3 species in NC, Brown, ‘Bows & Brookies.
Helios 2 Freshwater 8′-6″ 5wt. tip flex
walnutport canal
chase sunfish with my son, teach him.
1. 9″ 11wt Tip Flex
2. Lake Elmo, MN
3. Tiger Musky.
9ft 5wt tip flex
Hiwassee- float trip- having two small kids I would take any time on any water
Chasing Browns
1. Helios 2: 8’6 5wt. Mid
2. Beautiful North Georgia Mountains all the way up the Appalachia
3. Brookies, ‘Bows and Big Old Browns.
Oh, man. Unlimited time and funds? Then I want a tip flex, 9 foot, 12 weight and a trip to the Seychelles for Grand Trevally. Failing that? A tip flex 7 weight and a trip to the Sutton River in northern Ontario to chase six pound brook trout.
H2 9′ 10wt
Yukon River Drainage, Alaska
Pike
Helios 2 Freshwater 8′-6″ 5wt. Mid Flex
Nunavik, QC Canada for BIG brookies.
Helios 2 8′ 6″ 5wt mid.
Head up into Arctic Russia
Targeting Arctic Char
9′ 6wt for trout in Patagonia
1.Which Helios 2 model you would choose : 8wt 10′
2.Where you would go fishing: Doesn’t matter as long as my dad is with me.
3.What species you would pursue: Salmon/Steelhead
1. Helios 2 , 8-wt 11′ Switch Rod—Tip Flex
2. Anywhere in Québec Rivers
3. Rainbow trout
Fish the Miramachi with a 9wt switch for Atlantic Salmon.
Helios 7’6″ mid flex freshwater for the great trout fishing in Pennsylvania.
I chose 9′ 8 wt ideal for Golden Dorado in Esquina-Argentina
I would use the 9ft 10 weight Helios 2 and travel to Baja California to target Rooster and take some shots at sailfish and dorado. Or same Rod to columbia for huge peacock bass (watched GEOBASS last night)
-8’6″ 5wt mid flex
– Fortress Lake BC
– Monster Brookies
9′ 5-weight tip flex, for the free rising browns in the South Holston
10′ 7wt tip flex for steelhead in Alaska
Rod – H2 11′ 9wt switch
Where – Mongolia
What – Taimen
11′ 9wt switch.
Taimen
Mongolia
7’6″ 3 wt small stream maine brookies
9ft 8wt saltwater rod
The Keys
For Bonefish
H2 9′ 11 or 12 wt.
To the Fla. keys to pursue the mighty
Silver King – all bow to The King.
A huge bucket list item for me – been in
my bucket since childhood. Before I even
knew there was such a thing.
Helios 2 9 weight 9″
Pulaski river New York
Kind salmon and steelhead
11 foot 8-weight Switch Rod
Somewhere on the Gaspe Peninsula, preferably with April Vokey
Atlantic Salmon
10′ 8 wt. for musky in Ontario
Helios 2 5-weight 9′ Fly Rod—Mid Flex, Slovenia, Soca river, marble trout
9ft 5wt flex tip, and a dream trip would be to Scotland for trout and grayling
I would get a Helios 2 saltwater 12 weight, take it out to Florida in a kayak, and catch some tarpon!
6-7wt browns on the north platte river , wy
10′ 4 wt. Montana
9′ 8wt midflex
Beaver Island
CARP!!
Mid Flex 9 foot 4 wt. I’d take it to the mountain creeks of Croatia/Slovenia–from where my great grandparents came to pack meat in the Midwest where I grew up fishing for bass and crappies in farm ponds. But when I went on a vacation to Colorado as a teen, I knew I was mountain people.
Marbles
Helios 2 6-weight 11′ Switch Fly Rod—Tip Flex (Because my casting shoulder gave out this winter)
Would go to British Columbia
To pursue Steelhead
9′ 10wt
Yukon
Northern Pike
1. 9′ 7wt Big Game Tip Flex
2. Smallmouth Bass
3. Trip planned second week of June to the UP of WI.
Helios 2 9′ 7 wt.
Northern Quebec
Big Brook Trout and Arctic Char!
1. Helios 2 9′ 5wt
2. Labrador
3. Big ass brookies.
Helios 2 12-weight 9′ Fly Rod—Tip Flex for tarpon – Florida Keys
8wt switch for dolly varden in BC
As Ive come to experience…the grass isnt always greener on the other side and there is something very special in returning to your childhood dream waters. For me this would be the inland Troms highlands in northern Norway.
Dreamlike scenarios with as string of small lakes, streams and rivers teaming with artic char and fat browns. Often windy conditions in the mountains calls for a rod that can handle some weight as well as the “full meal flies” up here such as the native chopper sized blood sucking mosquitos 🙂 Weapon of choice would be the Helios 2 6-weight 9′ Fly Rod—Mid Flex.
Tight lines!
A Helios2 9 foot 8 weight, hunting Atlantic Salmon on the Gander River, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
9′ 8wt
Kashmir/Northern India
Golden Mahseer
Helios 2, 5-weight 9′ Fly Rod—Tip Flex
Copper River Alaska
Rainbow Trout, but I wouldn’t kick a trophy salmon off the line either!
9 ft 6 weight for a float trip down the Snake River for Cutts.
3wt 10 foot tip flex
pyrenees, Spain
zebra trout
Helios 2 8-weight 11′ Fly Rod—Tip Flex
I would be using this to chase steelhead in Ontario
9′″ 6 wt, tip
Hotagsströmmarna, Northern Sweden
Chasing big brown trouts.
1) 10ft 4 weight
2) Labrador
3) Monster Brook Trout
Helios 2 Switch Rod, 5 wt tip flex. I would definitely be hunting some big browns in New Zealand.
Helios 2 5-weight 9′ Fly Rod—Tip Flex
Alaska
Salmon, char, trout
Plus, my father turned 65 this year and my brother and I started a saving account for the 3 of us to squirrel away some money each month to make it to Alaska together in the next 2 years. My father loves the national parks system and we intend to take him to atleast one he has not been before. His parents made it to 49 states in the lifetime, hopefully my father can set foot in all 50.
I would take a Helios 2, 8-weight 11′ Switch Rod on a trip to the salmon reserve in russia for atlantic salmon.
I would choose a 10′ 4WT for my local streams of SE MN. Dream trip would include the Pacific Northwest, my wife and 3 month old, a cabin in the woods somewhere with easy access to both steelhead and salmon streams, as well as access to Puget Sound for Sea Run Cutt’s.
9 ft 12 wt
Florida Keys
TRAPON!
Either a 12wt for some Poon, in the Keys, Or a 8wt for some Bone in Andros!
8’6″ 5wt
Montana
Monster Browns
I would go for a 9fot #6 of this gorgeous piece of tech. my wife will be glad to, that I won’t spend an fortune on another rod. With the 6 shooter I am going to a small lake not long from my home in northern Sweden. There in the deep black water lures the biggest trout, also the smartest. but with this gear I am up for it…
6′ 2 wt for wild brooke trout in West Virginia!!!
Helios 2 12-weight 9′ Fly Rod—Tip Flex
St Brandon’s Atoll Mauritius
Chasing Giant Travelly
I would want to take a 6 wt setup down to the amazon to catch some big peacock bass
6 weight switch for Wenatchee River Steelhead.
9′ 5wt mid flex. Montana for brown trout.
Or an 8′ 6″ 5 wt for browns in New Zealand!!!
7′ 4 wt. Mid Flex
Central PA
Native Brookies
8’6″ 4wt Mid Flex
I’d head straight to Montana with my dad, both forks and the main channel of the Bitteroot River.
We’d chase West Slope Cutties during the Salmonfly hatch. Catch and release, of course.
I would go to the Indian River, FL and use a Helios 2 8wt to catch what ever is available but try for redfish because I have never fished or caught one and it is warm after this long cold winter in northern New York.
9ft 10w
Seychelles
GT’s and Bumpies.
I would take the 9 foot 5 weight helios 2 on a trip to Kamchatka to target some massive Russian rainbows using huge mouse patterns. Think the helios could handle that?
Which Helios 2 model you would choose: 9′ 8wt
Where you would go fishing: Bow River in Canada
What species you would pursue: Monster Brown Trout
I would take a Saltwater Helios 2 9 ft 8 wt on a dream trip for bonefish in Anegada, BVI!
I would choose the Helios2 9ft ~ 4wt ~ Mid-Flex.
I would fish in the Paradise Valley of Montana.
No trout would be safe.
9′ 8 wt saltwater
flats fishing in the Fl Keys!
9ft 5wt in Turangi New Zealand
11′ 7wt switch rod tip flex please!!
Large trout and steelhead, sacred headwaters B.C.!
I would choose the Helios 2 5-weight 9′ Fly Rod—Mid Flex! I would go fishing in the mountains of southwest Colorado and I would pursue some native cutthroats!
9′ 5wt Tip flex.
Dream trip to New Zealand!
9′ 5wt Tip flex.
Dream trip to New Zealand for Brown Trout!
8” 6′ five weight take it kamcatcha go after ol hob johnson
I’ve declared 2014 “The Summer of Small Water” so I’d take one of those Helios 7’6″ 3wt’s with me as I trudge through Colorado’s wilderness areas, like Sarvis Creek and the Flat Tops and Lost Creek, chasing hungry brookies and cutthroats.
I’d like a 10′ 4wt for home waters, but my dream trip would be chasing salmon, grayling,and dollies in Alaska.
H2 8wt Switch
My backyard, Kenai Peninsula Alaska
steelhead, king, silver, & red salmon, rainbows, and Dolly Varden char
Why go to someplace exotic when you are already there?
3wt 10 foot tip flex
Dublin city Ireland. Tolka river
Brown trout
1. Helios 2 saltwater. Honestly I don’t know which one would be best.
2. Louisiana
3. BIG BULL reds!
1. 9′ 8wt.
2. Alaska (dream trip)
3. I don’t care. Steelhead would be awesome!
9ft 8wt, fishing for red in the South Carolina Lowcountry
I had this dream of teaching my son to fish last night, he was proud and determined and focused. It was a moment where fishing transcends sport, whether the fish are hitting or not, its when nothing else matters but the rod in your hand and river at your feet. I believe this is what we strive for as fisherman, while a Big fish is great motivation, giving others the Passion to get out on the water is the Best reward. And what better way to represent that then with a Rod that has been Handcrafted and Meticulously watched over. I would love to see this rod in the hands of my son, giving him the love of fishing that my Grandfather and Father handed down to me. The 9ft 6wt freshwater would handle the wind and give him the comfort he needs to be a confident fisherman. Where would we go?? where wouldn’t we go!
1.) H2, 4 wt, 8’6″ mid-flex
2.) The Rapid
3.) Big fat brookies
1. 4 wt. 8’4″ mid flex
2. Smoky Mountains NP
3. Specs
Hellos 2. 5 weight. 8’6″. Mid-flex. Montana. Browns & Brookies.
9′ 4wt tip flex
Cutthroat and Brookies in RMNP
Dream trip is Alaska
8 weight 11′ Helios 2 Switch Rod
Pere Marquette River, Baldwin, MI
Steelhead
I like a challenge and it has always been my dream to battle some wild trout in South Africa. I’d grab an 8ft 4wt Helios 2 with some small flies and head straight there .
9ft 9 wt helios 2 tip flex
Mexico
Rooster fish off beach
I would take a Helios 2 11′ 7wt. switch rod to Prince of Wales Island, AK and travel around for two weeks swinging for steelhead.
9 ft. 5 wt. Tip Flex. Madison River, WY. Beautiful and wild trout!
11ft 9WT for stripers on Long Island and Steelhead on the Great Lakes tribs!
Hello!
I would choose the
Helios 2 6-weight 9′ Fly Rod—Mid Flex. I would wield that sword between July 19-July 26, chasing Northerns and Smallies on Leech Lake in MN. (My father-in-law agreed to shave his head if I caught a pike outside of the slot on a fly! The Helios I win may or may not be responded to with a before/after picture!)
But, my first adventure with the rod would be weed and brush, slick and slime, worm ridden filth and moss covered rock chasing good ol’ Golden Bonefish himself: Cyprinus carpio. Nebraska carp, like many others, are huge and picky. Need something to present some fake-tastiness with accuracy and delicacy.
1.) Helios 2 10-weight 9′ fly rod
2.) Philippines (to finally meet my wife’s extended family and enjoy some awesome fishing with them!)
3.) Dorado
1. Helios 2 9ft 5wt mid flex
2. New Zealand
3. Brown trout
9ft. 5wt. Tip flex for browns in Montana.
1. 9ft 9wt Helios 2 Tip Flex
2. Barotse Tiger Island, Zambia
3. Tigerfish, during the Catfish run in August/September
This has been my dream trip since I can remember, amazing fishing with amazing scenery and the strongest fish in Africa. This will be a bucket list trip and the highlight of my flyfishing career.
12 wt’
Mongolia
Taimen
I would enjoy a 9ft 8wt chasing salmon and steelhead with the boys from Hooke all over Canada!
Helios 2 Freshwater Mid Flex 9′ 6wt .
Black Canyon of the Gunnison River, CO
Trout
1) 8 or 9 wt 11′ tip flex switch
2) Skeena River B.C.
3) steelhead
I’d take the 13’6″ 8wt to Kamchatka for steelhead and salmon.
1) Helios 2 10-weight 9′ Fly Rod—Tip Flex
2) Nicaragua – Laguna de Perlas
3) Giant Tarpon
9ft 10wt tip flex. cuba for permit.
9′ 9WT
Nubian Flats in the Red Sea
Triggerfish
Unlimited time, funds and the Helios 2 of my choice? That’s easy.
St. Brandon’s Atoll, Mauritius.
Helios 2 8-weight 9′ Fly Rod—Tip Flex
Bonefish and Indo-Pacific Permit
1) Helios 2 5-weight 8’6″ Fly Rod—Tip Flex
2)South Platte or Arkansas River in Colorado
3) Rainbow and Brown Trout
Helios 2 9′ 5wt Mid Flex for Marble Trout in Slovenia
1)Helios 2 big game 9′ 9wt
2)Brazil
3)Peacocks!!!
1. Helios 2 9-weight 11′ – Tip Flex – Switch Rod
2. I would go to the Spey River in Scotland, what better place to learn to spey cast like my ancestors.
3. I would definitly go for the Salmon
1) Helios 2 8-weight 11′ Switch Fly Rod
2) My dream trip is to King Salmon, AK
3) Salmon, Trout and Grayling
1 Helios 2 3-weight 7’6″ Fly Rod—Mid Flex
2 I would head into the beautiful Cherokee National Forest (south of the Great smokey mtns) to chase brookies in the back county alone. Simple peaceful and reinvigorating
3 wild brook trout
Marthas vineyard would be my first choice to go target stripers with my hand tied rabbit zonker sandeel patterns in the salt ponds and around the island for striped bass. 10 wt is my rod of choice for hefting big stripers around structure and casting bug wet bunny flies about 7 inches long. went to marthas vineyard with my father once in my life and i never could forget catching them in our freshwater kayaks on light tackel and how i watched a suspended bass dissapear in the blink of an eye as i tapped the paddle on the kayak. one of the greatest memories i have catching with my father and one of my dreams to go camping and fishing there once again to chase stripers in the early light in the backs of those ponds and inlets to the ocean. i am fortunate enough to own one orvis clearwater 2 7 wt ive had for 4 years so far catching monster bass in my secret lake. boy does it turnover a large bass bug right where i want it.
Helios 2 9ft 8-weight
Boundary Waters, Minnesota
Smallmouth Bass
Helios 2 5WT 9′ Mid-flex rod to chase brown trout in Patagonia!
Helios 2 5-weight 9′ Fly Rod—Mid Flex
I would love to go to a remote campsite and fish some classic streams with football brookies! Rushing stream, brilliantly colored brook trout and a week to loose myself fishing.
Brookies, brookies… Brookies!
1. I would want the Helios 2, 9 foot, 5 weight, mid flex rod to slay rivers.
2. I would love to go to Patagonia and explore the beautiful mountain rivers.
3. I’m a born and bred trout guy. I would pursue the browns and rainbows down there.
1. Which Helios 2 model you would choose: 12 weight
2. Where you would go fishing: Seychelles
3. What species you would pursue: Giant Trevally
I’ve been seeing some videos of people catching these beasts and it just looks insanely exciting. They seem so aggressive on the take!
1. Helios 2 8.5′ 4WT Mid
2. Return to my parent’s homeland – Polska
3. Trout and Grayling
1.) Helios 2 5 weight 7’9 fly rod mid flex
2.) Idaho/Montana September
3.) Brown Trout
9ft 6weight tip flex-colorado,montana,and wyoming- trout and graylng
9′ 9wt for Nothern Pike in Saskatchewan. That would be a dream!
I would fish an H2 910 in northern Argentina for Golden Dorado!
1.- Saltwater, 9ft. 6wt, Tip Flex.
2.- Tajo River, Spain
3.- Comizo Barbel
5wt 9ft mid flex
Yellowstone
bows, browns, cutthroat
Helios 2 10-weight 9′ Fly Rod—Tip Flex
Kasilof River
Rainbows to Kings till my arm gives out!!!
I would LOVE LOVE LOVE the 8wt switch Helios 2 (SI7A9C-51-57)
I would immediately book a trip to fish the Skeena tribs this fall, and then fish my local waters of the Salmon River all fall/winter. It is a good excuse to visit the in-laws as well in Salmon. Spring runs in Stanley would be magnificent with this rod. If you get it to me soon enough, I can use it this spring! I would take so many promo pics for Orvis!
Salmon River Steelhead, BC Steelhead, Snake River Brown Trout!
10′ 4WT Tip flex. Dry fly presentations to rainbows on the Metolius River.
1.) Helios 2 6-weight 9′ Fly Rod—Mid Flex
2.) I would head to my home turf of Pyramid Lake, Nevada
3.) I would chase the Lahontan Cutthroat Trout (Over 20lbs now) and if conditions weren’t good then I would head to my favorite Carp spot and chase 10+lb Carp!
9 foot 7wt tip flex. I would use the funds to pay for my son’s tuition. That being said I would stay around home and finish the AuSable big water and the Pere Marquette for big browns on big streamers.
4wt. Driftless area,trout
1. Helios 2 – 6 Wt 9′ Tip Flex
2. South Island, New Zealand
3. Brown Trout
I have always dreamed of seeing the clear water of New Zealand and casting to large browns. And the size of the fish taking dries down there is incredible!
5wt 9ft mid flex
Any Montana/Colorado spring creek
Brookies
1. Helios 2 4-weight 8’6″ Fly Rod—Mid Flex
2. Fishing the remote headwaters of North Island, New Zealand.
3. Rainbow trout.
9ft 6wt road trip with helios, colorado-montana-wyoming. Trout and grayling. I would always be fishing if i could afford a helios.
9′ 5wt tip flex. I would go to Yellowstone National Park to pursue Cuttys!
Helios 2 4-weight 7′ Fly Rod—Mid Flex
Kashmir, India for rainbows BUT because its a hard place to get to…
Oregon, brown trout
I would choose the H2 (ft 6 wt (tip flex) to chase huge labrador brookies
9′ 4wt Mid Flex to catch cutthroat, rainbow and brown trout on the Yellowstone River.
8 wt., 10′
British Columbia
Steelhead
9ft midflex 5wt, Green River for big browns on a dry fly
Teri
Helios 7 wt Spey 13ft
Sandy River, Oregon
Steelhead Junkie
What a tease when I’m stuck in the office staring out the window…
1. Helios 2 – 8wt 9′
2. My first choice would be a remote lake in northern Canada where you are the only one on the water.
3. Pike and muskee
9′-6wt for Creek Smallies in in Indiana and mousing in Michigan.
Teri
Helios 13ft 7wt Spey
Sandy River, Oregon
Steelhead Girl
Helios2
11′ weight 8
For salmon and sea trout
Sweden and Norway
1. Helios 2 6-weight 9′ Fly Rod—Tip Flex
2. Kamchatka
3. Rainbow Trout, Char,
9ft 11wt
El Pescador Lodge Belize
Migratory Tarpon
1. Helios 2 5-weight 9′ Fly Rod—Tip Flex
2. New Zealand
3. Brown and rainbow trout
Dream Trip: I would pack my 9′ 8wt Helios 2, go to British Columbia and target large fresh and strong steelhead!
9 ft 5 wt mid flex
Labrador
Brook Trout
7wt tip flex, slovenia, marble trout
I would choose the 5wt mid flex. Then drive to Jim Hubbards ranch in MT with my dad and fish the many spring creeks in Paradise Valley he missed out on. I’d also go to the Soda Butte after those beautiful Cutt’s in Yellowstone National Park.
1. 8’4″ 3wt
2. Fishing the beautiful, remote streams in NC Mountains
3. Brook Trout
Helios 2 5-weight 9′, Tip-Flex
Montana
Cutthroat and brown
1. Helios 2 9-weight 11′ Fly Rod–Tip Flex
2. Mongolia
3. Taimen
9′ 5wt tip flex
Grey’s River, Wyoming
Cutthroat
Helios 2 7′ 6″ Mid Flex
NE Iowa
Native Brook
9′ 6wt. It would be fished down in Chile for trout.
1) 9wt switch rod
2) Hoh River on Olympic Peninsula
3) Winter run steelhead
Not one mention of your (and my) home waters of VT! I’ll even pick it up from you. Save the shipping $$. 9′ – 6 wt fished all over for trout. Battenkill, Otter, New Haven, Winooski and on, Handcrafted in VT, Fished in VT.
I would pick a 9′ 6wt. Being a guide in Wyoming and have never fished Alaska that is the place I would pick. If money and time were not a concern I would start in Bend Oregon. On the deschutes river system (my fishing buddy lives there). I know a 6 wt is light for steelhead but I would love to give it a try. Then I would move up to Hood River and fish that area then hit some of the famous waters in Washinton. Keying in on trout the majority of the time. Then hit the islands area north of Seattle and British Columbia. Need to bring a kayak along for that section! Hit some more costal rivers all the way and end up in keni Alaska ( have a buddy that lives there also). Try to hit the steelhead run there also, would have to bring a 7wt and a 8wt also! Hey Phil did you get the fly box I sent you?
Tight lines to all and to all a good fight!
Ty Hallock
Helios 10′ 5wt. My destination of choice would have to be Kamchatka before it turns into an area that “used to be pristine, wild and untouched”!
Northwestern New Zealand
106-4
Brown trout
1. 9′ 7 wt
2. Blue Ribbon fisheries in the great state or Idaho.
3. Massive Brown Trout on big streamers.
1) 9ft 7 weight tip flex
2) bow river Alberta Canada
3) bull trout all day
11′ 7wt, a week of steelhead fishing in British Columbia with April Vokey
9wt
Salmon
Pacific north west
Secluded river, true man vs. Nature experience
Helios 2 freshwater 3 weight 8’4″ mid flex
Looking for Brown Trout in Malleo river, Patagonia argentina
1) Helios 2 8’6 4wt
2) Armstrong’s Spring Creek, Montana
3) Oncorhynchus mykiss – Rainbow trout!!
Helios 2 (14wt)
I would travel the oceans finding all the best sweet spots to fish
any and all big game fish…..And never come back to work. lol
Thanks!
My wife and I just drool every time we see photos of New Zealand. I’m certain I would enjoy taking her and my new Helios 2, 9′ 5 wt over to New Zealand to break the rod in on some of those huge Brown Trout.
Helios 2 4-weight 9′ Fly Rod—Tip Flex
I would go to the Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness in Idaho to catch Golden Trout!
9ft 5wt mid flex
Patagonia
Brown trout
Helios 2 9′ 5wt
Madison River
Browns
Helios 2 8 weight 11′ foot in Kamchatka! That’s my dream trip!
Anywhere in Alaska. Salmon and monster trout. Not sure exactly what I would need for that. Maybe a tip flex 9′ 5wt and something bigger for salmon. 10′ 8wt?
6wt, 9′ Helios 2, for carpin on the Maumee
I moved from Northern Virginia to Western Montana 6 months ago today. My dream trip is literally in my back yard. Having the opportunity to fish the Bitteroot, Blackfoot, Clark Fork, and Rock Creek in the same day is truly the definition of trip of a lifetime in my book.
A 9’6″ Tip Flex 6 weight would be ideal to toss anything from a PMD, to a big foam Chubby, to a meaty streamer to native cutts, big browns, and acrobatic rainbows all day long.
9′, 5 wt, tip flex. I would like to go to Kamchatka and fish for Trout.
11′ 8 wt for NH Stripers and Great Lakes Steel & browns.
9ft 8wt tip flex
Maine
Stripers
908 tip flex
Idrijca river in Slovenia
the marble trout
9 ft 6 wt freshwater midflex to use at roaring river state park rainbow trout
I would like a 9′ 9 weight 4pc. Helios 2 rod.
I would fish Alaska for salmon. After breaking my T3 on a musky last summer, it would come in handy for all the species I would normally target this summer.
I would choose the 8wt 11′ switch rod and head to Saskatchewan for northern pike!
Which Helios 2 model: 3wt, 7’6″ mid flex
Where you would go fishing: the native trout streams of northern Maine
What species: brook trout
7-weight 10′ tip flex
Texas coast and the Chandeleur islands
Speckled trout and reds!
1. 9-foot 10-weight tip flex
2. Cave Run Lake, Kentucky
3. Muskie
1.) 9 ft. – 6 wt.; Tip Flex
2.) With unlimited time and funds, of course I could choose to go anywhere in the world, and I would if that were the case, but if I could go to one place, it would be right here in good ol’ Montana. I would hire a chopper to fly myself and two of my buddies to the headwaters of the South Fork of the Flathead River, raft, gear, and all, including my new Helios 2. From there we would float all day, everyday, camp, and then get up and do it again and again…. and what would we target?
3.) Big hungry cutties and big mean bull trout.
See you ladies and gents in Missoula next month!!!
Make that a Mid Flex. Nobody wants a streamer in the back of their neck!
9’6″ 8 weight to Greenland for some remote and under explored Char fishing!
5-weight 9′ rod, tip flex
brown trout
New Zealand!
1) Helios Salt 9 wt tip flex
2) Remote fly in to the Chuitna River AK mid June
3) King Salmon.
1) 9′, 5wt, MID, 4pc.
2) A stream or river in Labrador
3) Native Brook Trout
8 WT salt tip flex, I’d spend the rest of my days setting the record for most species brought to hand on a fly rod, from chucking mice to Alaskan Rainbows and dodging grizzly bears, to braving the wilds of India in search of the legendary Mahseer.
9’10wt
Tarpon
Cuba
I’d love to take the H2 10′ 3wt to California’s Sierra Nevada to work on the California Heritage Trout Challenge!
1) 9ft 6wt mid
2) Colorado
3) browns and rainbows
Helios 2 Switch 11′ 5wt
Salmon, trout , stripers, blues
Naugatuck river ,CT
Atlantic
My girlfriend has claimed my very first rod (my workhorse 6 wt) for herself. The H2 10′ 6wt would be my stick of choice for acquainting myself with Mexican bass and baby tarpon and small bones. Then I’d roadtrip my way home, stopping only to chase some Texas and Louisiana reds, topping it all off with swinging streamers in tailwaters throughout Tennessee.
I would love to fish Alaska.
For salmon or trout
And an 8# weight.
Thank you for your consideration.
I could not click on the link on the page, so I am hoping, that by leaving my comments here, I will still be entered!
I would select the Helios 2- 3 wt, 7′ 6″ rod.
I would fish for brookies and rainbows.
I would spend the day with my Dad, who at 82 still manages to outfish me, on some small streams in central Pennsylvania on Father’s Day weekend!!
I would like a 9 ft 6 weight to fish for brown trout in New Zealand
I’d want to use it every opportunity that I could so…
1) 5-weight 9′ Mid Flex
2) Rahway River, NJ
3) Stockie Rainbows!
9ft 9wt
Flathead River, Montana
Northern Pike
My brother just bought a new motor for his boat and is raving about the Flathead. Typical Montana awesomeness without the crowds. I would love to feel the pull of a toothy 30 inch beast on the Helios 2!
Helios 2 3-weight 7’6″ Fly Rod—Mid Flex …….rainbows, browns and brookies….Western NC, Upcountry SC and North GA Helios 2 3-wt 7’6″ Mid Flex
1. Helios 2 3-weight 7’6″ Fly Rod—Mid Flex
2. Slovenia
3. Marble trout
1. Helios 2 8-weight 10′ Fly Rod—Tip Flex
2. Beleze
3. Permit, bonefish, tarpon
I would choose the Helios 2 4-weight 9′ Fly Rod—Mid Flex and go to the Kola Peninsula for large browns!
I would use the 9′ 9 weight Helios 2 for Atlantic salmon on the cascapedia river.To catch that huge salmon that’s been haunting my dreams, and nothing could get it done better then the Helios 2
Definitely the Helios 2 Big Game 8 wt. 9 ft. Tip Flex – Going to need the power to reel in those 35 pound Atlantic Salmon on the Matapedia River in Quebec!
8’6″ 5wt mid-flex.
Patagonia fishing for trout!
Orvis Helios 2 9′ 5wt Mid Flex, in the remote hill lochs on the Isle of Skye – Scotland, catching the hard fighting wild Brown Trout
1. 9′ 8wt Tip-Flex
2. Murrell’s Inlet, SC
3. Redfish
Helios 2 6-weight 9′ Fly Rod
St Martin de los Andes in Argentina (visited couple of years ago when I knew nothing about fly fishing. After talking to fishermen in the lodge and local guides, it was then I wanted to give it a go)
Brown Trout
My wife and I have called Vermont home for the past five years but we are looking to move out west at the end of this summer. There are all these places I’ve been wanting to fish but have put off getting there for one reason or another. I would take a brand new Helios 2 rod on whirlwind tour of northern New England. Stops would include the Clyde for LL Salmon, Battenkill for its browns, the Upper Connecticut and Rangely drainage for brookies and of course countless thin blue lines in White Mountain and Green Mountain National Forest for native brookies. The 9’ 6 wt mid flex model would be perfect.
10 ft 8wt
Alaska the last frontier to fish for salmon
9′ 9 weight
the great state of LA
for some monster red drum
Two places:
Mongolia with an 8wt 9ft Helios2 tip flex to tangle with Tiamen.
Kamchatka with a 7wt 9ft Helios2 tip flex.
9ft 9wt, Beaufort South Carolina for Redfish
7′ 4#
Small overgrown chalkstream in southern UK, probably the Cerne or the Ebble.
Trout, Trout and more Trout.
8’4″ 3wt.
Chalkstreams of Normandy, France
Wild trout and grayling
orvis helios 2 10 foot eight weight
RIO GRANDE Tierra del fuego Argentina
species sea trout
H2 8W 9Ft Flex Tip
Steelhead in Western NY (Unless you’re springing for air fare too. (Then New Zealand)
H2 4w 10′ in Northern Quebec for jumbo brookies from a tube/kayak/canoe!
Orvis Helios 2 9′ 5wt Mid Flex, Northern California for some golden trout!
9ft 6 weight tip flex
Greenland (or above the arctic circle)
Sea run arctic Char
Place to go — Kamchatka, species — rainbow, rod — 8 wt.
Helios 2 5-weight 8′ 6″ Fly Rod—Mid Flex
Heading to New Zealand, the land of the Kiwis, for Brown and Rainbow trout!!
Tight Lines y’all
Helios 2 5-wt 9′ mid flex
I’d head to my favorite spot – SE Tennessee and the Hiwassee River
Fishing for rainbows!
I’d have my brother from Louisiana and brother
From South Carolina come up to ontario Canada where iam and we’d fish the streams when the
salmon and the steelhead run (honestly I’d use it for pike as well, maybe stripers in the Connecticut river and more)
Helios 2 8 weight 10′ fly rod flex tip
9′ 5wt. Frank Church Wilderness … wild native Idaho cutthroat on a float tube at Bernard Lake
11′ 6wt switch.
I would choose New Zealand, the entirety of New Zealand. North island, South Island all of it. I would love to spend some time in some of the flat water areas that I have seen in many videos (namely in some scenes from “once in a blue moon”. Then head to all of the various rivers that vein the landscape. I would choose the 6 wt switch because I would have the ability to Spey cast big streamers long distances in flat waters and still use it for some over head dry fly casting and it’s long reach for ESN action.
9ft 5wt….
Pittsburg NH
Salmon Salmon and Salmon
Helios 2 3-weight 7’6″ Fly Rod—Mid Flex, Blue Line for Brook Trout in North Georgia
HELIOS 2 904-4 TIP FLEX
Driftless Area Wisconsin
Wild Browns and Brookies
1. Helios 2 10′ 4 weight Tip Flex
2. Rivers Trysil, Glomma, Rena in Norway
3. Brown trout and Grayling
8ft 6wt
Deschutes River
Trout
11ft 8wt Switch
The Lake Erie tribs of northeast Ohio
Big chromers and occasional salmon
Helios 2 6wt
Bolivia
Golden Dorado!
9.5′ 6 Wt. would be a great rod for chasing Smallies in Quetico Provincial Park!
9 ft 5 weight mid flex cross country road trip for trout and smallmouth. Pa to Ca and back . northern states going west and central coming back east
(1) Helios 2 4-weight 10′ Fly Rod—Tip Flex
(2) first : “Les Nives” in South France and rivers of Pyrenees (South France) : to prepare and testing the helios2,
second : The New-zealand = for big trout, only and only.
(3) panters of the Pyrenees and Big Brown of NZ
1) Helios 2 8-weight 9′ Fly Rod—Tip Flex
2) TROUT FISHING: Argentina – Bariloche – 7 Days in Patagonia – Fish for Rainbow’s, Browns, and Brookies
3) Trophy Rainbow Trout
Backup Trip (Trip on the way back from Argentina) – 7 more days
1) Helios 2 10-weight 9′ Fly Rod—Tip Flex
2) Cuba
3) Fish the Triple Play – Bone Fish, Tarpon, Permit
An 8′ 6″ weight rod, mid flex, for chasing trout in New Zealand.
1) H 2 9ft 9wt
2) Tiger Muskie
3) Bluewater Lake New Mexico
9′ 8wt restigouche river in Nb, fishing the king of sport fish atlantic salmon
I would get a Helios 2 5-weight 9′ Fly Rod—Mid Flex. I would fish for monster Browns on the Gunnison in Colorado.
Helios 2 8-weight 11′ Fly Rod—Tip Flex
BC steelhead
I would choose a 9′ ft 5 wt
I would chase trout all over southwest Colorado. I would like to say I would travel to some fancy destination with my new rod but I would just fish where I usually fish, just in primo style.
Also, I would treat it right too. It could sleep in my bed with me in a solid case of course. My wife can sleep on the floor…just kidding…she can have the couch.
That is the best one Ive seen
9′ 5wt
Washington State
Carp!
I would go to the south Platte river in Colorado and fish the kokanee salmon run with a 5 wt 9 ft tip flex.
For me, I got to go with the 11′ 9 wt. match that with a 550 grain Skagit line, a fast sinking tip, a heavy leader, and a really big fly and were in business for big Susquehanna river flat heads.
5 wt tip flex. South fork of Flathead in the Bob Marshal Wilderness, Montana. Going after bull trout and cutthroat. Packing in in two months
10 ft 4 wt for a 20″ Brown on a #14 CDC Sulphur Comparadun on the South Holston
That 9 foot 12 wt would be a nice addition to are spread at the White Marlin open this year.
I would use the 10′ 5 wt to do some cicada fishing and tour the South Island of New Zealand picking off Large Browns and Rainbows with the Mid Flex. That is number one on the bucket list so an easy choice.
9’/4 Wt/mid-flex … for dry flies and big browns on the West Branch of the Delaware.
I would love a #7 11′ switch. And to use it on BC chrome.
1.) 9 Foot 6 WT Mid Flex
2.) Labrador (Minipi Watershed)
3.) Brooke Trout
A nine ft 4wt on the little red river after monster browns
I’d take the Helios 2 6-weight 9′ Fly Rod—Mid Flex and fish Char Lake, Labrador for days on end catching Arctic Char hand over fist!
1) 9ft 5 weight
2) New Zealand
3) Brown Trout
9ft 5wt tip flex
For all of the river valleys and mountain streams across Western Montana. Chasing rainbows, browns, and elusive cutthroat.
Helios 2 9′ 6wt
Test
Brown trout
Helios 2 4-weight 9′ Fly Rod—Mid Flex
Malleo River, Patagonia, Argentina
Brown trout on a size 20 dry fly
Helios 2: 12-weight 9-foot
Where? Islamorada
What? Bonefish, Tarpon, Permit. Boom!
1) Helios 2 5-weight 7’9″ Mid-Flex
2) Montana
3) Brown Trout
7’9″ 5wt mid flex
Alaska
Rainbow trout
Helios 2 8-weight 9′ Fly Rod—Tip Flex
Campeche, Mexico
Juvenile Tarpon
1.) 9′ 6 weight mid flex
2.) Local Western New York streams and lake Erie tribs
3.) Brown and Rainbow trout, steelhead, large and small mouth bass, and any other species I can get to take a fly!
I want to llok a GT in the face on Christmas Island
I’m thinking at least the Helios 2 11-weight 9′ Fly Rod—Tip Flex
I would take a 7’6 3wt across Wyoming to complete the Cutthroat Slam
9ft 5 weight Helios 2. I would love a Super Kundzha from the Kamchatka peninsula in Russia.
1. 9′ 4wt
2. Yellowstone River
3. Brown Trout
Helios 2 9 foot 8 weight
Christmas Island
Bonefish
Thanks for putting this together!
H2 4-weight 9′ Tip Flex for back country fishing to Golden Trout in Wyoming’s Wind River Mtn Range.
9ft 6wt for steelhead in Oregon
Helios 2 #8 9′ to fish the dorados here in the pantanal wetlands in brazil
Bye
Helios 2 9ft 10wt for peacock bass in Rio Negro, Brazil!
Helios 2 #8 9′ to fish the huge peacock bass in the amazon rainforest mainly in the rio negro river
Thanks and good look to everybody
Bye
9 ft 8 wt, The Lower Laguna Madre in South Texas, redfish
5wt 8’6 tip flex
McCloud rainbows
9ft 4wt, Exploring the Adirondack mountains, Trout
1) 9ft 10 or 11 wt
2) Belize or the Bahamas with my son
3) Bonefish or Tarpon
8’6″ 5-wt Mid Flex for beautiful Browns on the Owyhee river! I can already smell the sagebrush…
I would choose the 10 foot 8 weight.
Fish the shores of the US Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point, NY.
Stripers and blues.
Helios 2 2-weight 6′ Fly Rod—Mid Flex. I would love to go to the driftless area so I could do some fishing with my dad, but would mainly use it in the Sierra Nevadas (where I live). Would be going after small creek trout, rainbows, brookies, and browns.
Helios 2 5-weight 9′ Fly Rod—Mid Flex
New Zealand
Brown Trout
Helios 2 3-weight 8’4″ Fly Rod—Mid Flex
Verdigre Creek, Nebraska
Brown and Rainbow Trout
1, The rod that I would choose is the Helios 2 saltwater 10 weight.
2, The place that I would go fishing at is Mongolia.
3, The name of the targeted fish would be the worlds largest trout that is called the “Taimen” and this is a fish that I would really love to fish for.
I would take a 6 wt 9ft tip flex for bass fishing around Austin, TX
9′ #4wt – tip flex
Henry’s Fork
Rising Rainbows
9′ 5 Weight Tip Flex fishing giant browns and rainbows. Spring Creeks in Montana
If I had a Helios 2 Rod I would take advantage of the vacations up in Connecticut in the Farmington river for rainbows, browns, and brook trout. A 9ft 5wt tip flex rod would be the one I would like to have for this.
7wt spey ohio PA and NY steelhead mosly.
7’3wt
Sierras
Rainbows, Browns, and Brooks!
1. Helios 2 6-weight 9′ Fly Rod—Tip Flex
2. Wind River Range, WY
3. Golden Trout
I would use a 9′ 5wt Helios rod in the Sierras in California for rainbow trout.
I have this dream of going to fish northern pike in a boreal lake in Alberta or Saskatchewan. For that I would need a nice 9-weight rod. But I already bought that. My other dream is to hike to one of the two alpine lakes in Alberta that hold golden trout. I think I’d like to use a 4-piece 8’6″ 4-weight. Possible a tad light for the possible winds up there, but it would double nicely as the go-to rod for fishing smaller alpines lakes and creeks for cutthroat trout.
Helios 2 5-weight 7’9″ Fly Rod—Mid Flex, Solo Canoe adventure on the Dusey River,Ontario for 20 inch brookies.
Helios 2: 7’6″ 3wt rod
Where: Bear Creek, Colorado
What: Pure greenback cutthroat trout
1) Helios 2 5-weight 9′ Fly Rod—Mid Flex
2) Wyoming’s Wind River Mountains.
3) Golden Trout
Helios 2 4-weight 9′ Fly Rod—Tip Flex
Poudre Canyon and Big Thompson Canyon in Ft Collins and Loveland Colorado respectively.
Brookies, Browns, and Rainbows
I would use a Helios II, 3wt, 7′ to fish the small streams of western Pennsylvania (the Neshannock, the Slippery Rock, etc) hunting for native Brookies! That is about as close to heaven as you can get on earth, so you might as well have the best equipment to fully enjoy it all.
Helios 9′ 10 wt. for bull reds and jacks in southern Louisiana!
Helios 2 9ft / 8wt > Belize > the slam – bones permit and poons…. oh my
I would take the 9′ 10wt with me to Beaver Island, MI for monster carp!
9 ft. 8 wt. Mid flex , Kamchatka, Rainbow
1. Helios
2. boise i.d.
3. phish
8’4″ 3wt helios2 wisconsin brookies
1) H2 13′ 6″ 8wt Spey (Nothing in the rules about my future dream rod)
2) BC
3) That sweet chrome!!!!
1. Helios 2 5 wt, 10 ft
2. Nymphing or swinging wets with Dan Harrison on a secret river in Massachusetts
3. Monster Browns
11′ 9wt Switch, Nova Scotia, Atlantic Salmon
8wt 9′ for muskie on MN and WI.
9 foot 8wt tip flex. Steelhead in the PNW.
Helios 2 saltwater 9′ 8wt tip flex for big bull drum in Pamlico Sound
1. 8’6″ 4wt tip flex
2. Back country. Yellowstone.
3. Cutthroat
I would choose the 11′ 8wt switch and go to Iceland to fish Atlantic’s and sea runs. Is definitely on the bucket list.
1. 11′ 8wt Switch
2.Restigouche River ,New Brunswick
3.Atlantic salmon
10′ 5w
All over Colorado
Browns
I would use a Helios 4-weight 9′ Fly Rod—Tip Flex on the Big Thompson River for Brown trout in Colorado with my 4 year old daughter. We love to fish there and have pretty good success.
I am dreaming of winning the Helios 2-5weight 8′ 6″ fly rod. I see myself on the Battenkill in Vermont going for the best brown trout in New England…not only did i win the rod, I got the “Larch” site at Emerald Lake State Park in East Dorset Vt. for a whole week!
I’d take one of the 4 weight 7′ outfits up into the highest, furthest back parts of the Rocky Mountain backcountry my feet would take me to. I want the miles-from-everyone-else glacial lake or creek. I want Cutthroats, Brookies, and the illusive Greenback.
Back country Montana. 9′ 5wt mid-flex
2 5-weight 9′ Fly Rod—Mid Flex
Idaho
Trout
1) Helios 2 50-weight 9′ Fly Rod-Mid Flex
2) Alaska
3) Brookies and Cutties in the Rocky Mountains
Thanks for the contest!
Helios 2 8’6″ 4wt mid flex
Back country in the Great Smoky Mountains with my beautiful son, and my beautiful wife I would give away those endless funds and keep the endless amount of time with them, the mountains, and the back country brook trout. They bought me a Helios a couples years ago I would love to win one for them. My to loves are very deserving.
Little back country brook trout. The most pretty fish on earth !!!!!!!!!
Helios 2 9-weight 11′ Fly Rod—Tip Flex
Gods River, Manitoba, Canada
Brook Trout
H2 Switch 5wt 11′ – trout or salmon, Ireland(the safe parts).
1.) Helios 2 Freshwater 9′ 5wt. Mid Flex
2.) Bozeman MT
3.) Trout
I’d down in Patagonia on the beautiful Azul River, with my Helios 2 10′ 5wt stalking huge rainbows and browns!
9′ 5wt Silver creek for trout. This was the trip I was scheduled to take when my father-in-law passed. He kept insisting we not change our vacation plans for him. He was that way, unselfish. We used to fish out his old john boat. Me in the bow on the homemade casting deck he made. While I flipped bugs for bass he would use his old Zebco. He never caught much but he like watch me cast. I never could get him to try my a fly rod. If I get the rod I’ll take that trip.
Helios 2 Freshwater 5 weight 8’6″
Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia
TROUT
10′ 8wt tip-flex helios 2
Tierra del Fuego, Patagonia, Argentina
Sea Run Brown Trout
10′ – 7wt H 2
Kamchatka …
Slab rainbows
10 ft 4 weight Helios2
I would fish a cast of three wet flies on all the favorite waters made famous by the wet fly experts, including waters fished by Sylvester Nemes, Dave Whitlock, Allen McGee, Davy Wotton, Dave Hughes, John Shaner etc. including North America, the United Kingdom, Spain, France and Korea… Call it a “Soft Hackle Odyssey! ” No indicator allowed. Include a winning lottery ticket in the rod tube, please…
9′ 4 weight
Streams of Appalachia, great smoky mountains
Any trout I could find
9ft 7weight helios 2 to use tossing mice patterns in Kamchatka for huge wild bows!
Helios 2 saltwater #8, to take to Belize, to chase Bonefish
1. 9 ft 8wt helios 2
2. Florida Keys with my Dad
3. Bonefish
Helios 2, Saltwater, in Big Pine Key, Florida, 10 ft 9 wt’, grand slam, bonefish, tarpon, and permit
A 9 foot 5 wt. flex tip on the Little Red River in Arkansas going after browns or rainbows.
5 wt 8’6″ mid flex Upstate New York brown and brook trout!
4 wt 8’6″ browns, bows and brookies in rapid river, mi
Helios 2, 9′ 4WT
Lamar Valley, Yellowstone National Park. Slough Creek, Pebble Creek, Soda Butte, Lamar River, Yellowstone River.
West Slope Cutthroat, Rainbow Trout, Brown Trout, Brook Trout, and whatever else will put a bend in the rod!
How long are we gone for?
1. Helios 2 9′ 8wt
2. Everglades
3. Jacks, Snook, Redfish, Snapper, Grouper, Tarpon – in that order
10ft 4-wt
High sticking for brown/rainbow pigs in N. Ga.
Helios 2 9′ 4wt, browns and bows in north west Michigan
9′ 5wt mid flex
Amazon in brazil
peacock bass
1) Saltwater 9′ 8wt tip flex
2) in deep Siberian rivers
3) Taimen
9ft 5wt freshwater
Spring River, At
Brown trout
9 weight switch, I’d be catching some Atlantic salmon on the dry fly in Iceland
Helios 2 6-weight 9′ – Mid Flex
Alaska!
Big Trout!
Helios 2 saltwater 9′ 11 weight
Costa Rica
Tarpon
9 ft. 8 wt. jurassic lake for rainbows!
1. H2 908 Mid
2. Martha’s Vineyard for the Derby this fall
3. Bass, Blues, Bonito and False Albacore
1: Helios 2 11′ 7wt switch
2: An unfished river in Kamchatka
3: Rainbows/Steelhead
9ft. 5wt. freshwater kern river for golden trout
9′ 8wt, steelhead, Sandy River (or maybe I’d try it in an 8wt switch rod)
9′ 5wt
Honestly, I of all the places in the world I could go, I think I would take a week in Idaho fishing for trout on all of my favorite rivers with my Pops!! Henry’s Fork, South Fork, Teton, Bitch Creek!!!! Nothing better!!!
1.) Helios 2 5-weight 9′ Fly Rod—Tip Flex
2.) A tour of Patagonia with Jeremy Wade to show him how to really catch a river monster! ; )
3.) Some of the largest trophy trout in the world… FISH ON!!!
9′ 6wt
Bahamas
Bonefish
2wt, 8″4 Helios 2 – the mountains of the Aberdare National Park game reserve in Kenya chasing small wild browns and rainbows
Great:)!
9′ 8wt rainbow trout in northern NM
1. Helios 2 11′ 7wt switch
2. in Slovenia
3. Trout and grayling
If I win, I would choose the Helios 2 10-weight 9′ Switch Rod
I would head to the Smith River in Northern California to fish for chromed out Steelhead all day, everyday!
9 ft 9 wt tip flex for pike in Denmark
Africa has big, strong and fussy fish
I would use the 9′ 5w to delicately present a fly to the Yellowfish (Largemouth and Smallmouth) of Sterkfontien
I would use the helios 2 freshwater 6 weight tip flex for catching monster browns in patigonia
It would be:
9’#7 and Carp Fishing in shalow ponds 😀
Cheers!
Maciej
Helios 2 5-weight 9′ Fly Rod—Mid Flex
A trip to Katuim river.
Helios 2 5-weight 9′ Fly Rod—Mid Flex
A trip to Katuim river to catch some graylings.
9′ 9 weight for muskies in MN
9′ 6 weight for streamer fishing on the Yellowstone River for big trout.
8wt switch rod, and a trip to Patagonia trout or Alaska for steelhead/pike, or Mongolia for taimen
i would use a
Helios 2 6-weight 9′ Fly Rod—Tip Flex
in the delta of the river kalamas at igumenitsa (greece) for european seabass (Dicentrarchus labrax) .
Helios 2 switch 8-weight 11′ Fly Rod—Tip Flex for fishing streamers on Inarijoki river Lapland (Finland) for salmon
9′ 12 wt Helios 2
Key West
Tarpon
I would go to New Zealand and catch browns and bows with the Helios 2 4-weight 9′ Fly Rod—Mid Flex!
I would fish the coasts of Denmark for searun brown trout with the Helios 2 6-weight 9’6″ Fly Rod—Tip Flex
I would use an 10 Ft. 8 Wt. Tip Flex and go up to Alaska and BC and try to get into some huge Steelhead.
Helios 2 8wt. tip flex and hit the keys for tarpon and bonefish.
I would choose a 9-wt & escape to Ascension Bay in Mexico to chase permit…bye, bye…
Helios 2 6-weight 9′ fly rod-mid flex, tarn and sienne in france, pike and pikeperch
Helios 2 8-weight 9′ fly rod-mid flex, Devil’s Gold, Bolívia
Helios 2 4-weight 7′ Fly Rod—Mid Flex
Backpacking in the high Uintas of Utah
for all species of trout
9′ 10wt. for stipers all around Cape Cod.
Helios 2, 8 wt, full flex; Ungava Peninsula of Nunavik, Quebec, Canada, Arctic Char
Meant to say, Helios 2, 8 wt, tip flex; Ungava Peninsula of Nunavik, Quebec, Canada, Arctic Char
8wt Switch
Finland for salmon and trout
9′ 5 weight tip flex Helios 2. I would take it across Montana in search of a 26″ brown on a dry fly. Preferably with a baetis, PMD, or Trico.
9 foot 6wt, tip flex
Mongolia! I would love the chance to watch the worlds largest trout inhale a big streamer. Taimen all the way baby.
I would LOVE the Helios 2 8wt, 10 ft tip flex to chase the salmon in Alaska someday! Thats my dream!
I would go with a Helios 2 6-weight 9′ Fly Rod.
If I had unlimited budget, I’d go to Patagonia in Chile for big brown and rainbow while drinking good wine !
Rod: 8’4″ 3 weight
Place: A big beautiful Montana tailwater or two
Species: Rainbow trout
1.I would want to model 9 `4 #
2 I want to go fishing in the Poland at San
3 Fish for trout and grayling
9′ 8 wt, mid flex
Nushagak, Alaska
Rainbow trout!
Helios 2 9-weight 9′ Fly Rod—Tip Flex
Ascension Bay, Mexico
Permit
9ft 7wt
Pere Marquette, Baldwin, MI
Steelhead
Maybe not my dream trip, but the one that I have coming up next. Been psyched for spring for a while over here. A new fly rod would make it that much better!
After hearing so much about it from Tom on the podcast, I’d have to canoe the Batten Kill in Vermont for browns with a Helios 2 6-weight 9′ fly rod tip flex. The occasional brookie would be nice as well.
10′ 8 wt. for giant rainbows at “Jurassic Lake” in Argentina.
9′ 6wt for me!
I’d take a 7 wt 11 ft switch rod, for chasing spawning browns on the Missouri river in the Fall! (picturing a couple of spots I’d finally be able to reach, as I write this… 🙂
I’d love to take the Saltwater 9wt to the Seychelles for giant trevally….would be my absolute dream trip!
Helios 2, 7-Weight, 10-foot
Gaspe Peninsula
Salmo salar
1. 9′ 9wt
2. Gunnison River, CO
3. Brookies, Brownies, Rainbows
7’6″ 3 wt.
Rocky Mountain National Park
Brookies and cutthroats.
1.I chciałby modelować Helios2 klasa 4 długość 9’/274cm akcja Tip flex
2 chcę łowić w Polsce w San i Dunajec
3 Ryby dla pstrąga i lipienia
11″ 5wt Switch
West Branch Delaware
Brown Trout from the reservoir!
9′ 5wt. mid flex for trout on Flat Creek in Jackson, Wy.
10ft 8wt Salt Water
Christmas Island
Bonefish
Helios 2 4-weight 10′ Fly Rod—Tip Flex
For cutthroat and brookies in SW British Columbia
Helios 2 8-weight 9′ Fly Rod—Tip Flex
Rio Grande river on Tierra del Fuego
Sea run brown trout
4wt 8 1/2, all trout species, Montana
– 7wt switch
– Steelhead
– Rivers of British Columbia
– 7wt switch
– South West Florida, on the beaches of the Gulf of Mexico,
– Snook, Jack Crevalle
6ft.
Missouri
Chasing bows
I would the Helios 2 12 weight.
I would then hop on a plane to Costa Rica, and make my way east to Barra del Colorado or Tortuguero and jump Tarpon all day long. This might be cheating, but I’d then grab a bus to the west coast and go offshore and try for a billfish slam.
1.Helios 2 4-weight 9′ Fly Rod—Tip Flex
2.River San
3.beautiful trouts and graylings
Helios 2 6-weight 9′ mid flex. I’d hit up my local river, the Blackfoot, chasing down some big ol browns.
9′ 6wt mid-flex for tossing streamers to the stripers in Bull Sluice Lake on the Chattahoochee River.
9′ 6″ Tip Flex Saltwater
Vancouver Island
Sea Run Cutthroat, Coho and Pink Salmon off the beaches
9′ 4wt mid-flex for year-round browns on the Little Red
9′ 9wt tip-flex, I would go to Rio Colorado, Costa Rica to fish Tarpon
I would use the 3 weight 7’6″ rod
in the river of Nuthe and surroundings in Brandenburg, Germany
for the hunt of brown trouts and rainbows.
This way I would escape the monotony of a typical working day, which gives me power to survive more working days.
I would like to taken helios 2 freshwater tip flex in 5 ft. and 9′ length for a monster trouts in New Zealand. It’s my big dream and I hope that in the future I will be able to do it. I think about it every day…
Helios 2 4-weight 7′ Fly Rod—Mid Flex
Trout
Excellent, but close quarters streams in SW Wisconsin
9ft 8wt for Big Streamers
11 day remote Float in Alaska-
King Salmon, Coho Salmon, Sockeye Salmon, Chum salmon, Pink Salmon, Dolly Varden, Arctic Char, Rainbow Trout, Grayling, Pike! Might even be handy for Bear protection 🙂
Easy! A monster 8.5/9 foot 12, or 14 wt and go for Arapaima in Brazil!
However, I doubt I’d ever use such a giant rod after that, so I’d probably be just as happy with a 8’4″ 3 wt and go for some little brookies in NW Maryland!
Helios 2 2-weight 6′ Fly Rod—Mid Flex
Cherokee National Forest–Tennessee
Native Brook Trout
8-weight 11′ Fly Rod—Tip Flex, fishing for atlantic salmon. I am going to Norway this summer and would love to try this rod there!
I believe this one would be suitable for pike here in northern Finland as well.
I would want a 9 ft. 5wt. to fish for big browns in the Marquette river and also in Montana.
Helios 2 7 wt 10ft tip flex
lake michigan for carp
it will be so cool.!
9′ 9 wt.
Alaska.
Everything.
#6, seatrout, Oslofjord
2 wt, 8´4″
Horska kamenice, Czech rep.
Brown trout and grayling
9 ft. 6 wt mid flex
Norway for Brown Trout
First place is Madeira – portugal island – place is soooo magical with crystal clear streams from magma rocks 🙂
Second place is iceland of course 🙂 becouse it’s fly fishing heaven.
But with this rod (helios 2 3# + dry fly) every stream is fly fishing heaven 😉
Best regards
Chris
Helios 2 5-weight 8’6″ Fly Rod—Mid Flex for brownies on Fier, France
Helios 2 6-weight 9′ Fly Rod—Tip Flex
New zeland
Trout!
1. Helios 2 8-weight 10′ Fly Rod—Tip Flex
2. Poland
3. Big pikes!
9′ 10wt- Musky on the Allegheny River downstream of Kinzua Dam.
My 6 year old son is obsessed with Musky, every trout I show him he says ” Dad, when are you gonna catch a Musky!”
Needless to say, I have my hands full trying to impress him!
9′ 9-weight.
I’d go back to the Naknek river for king salmon. And when I got back home, Ceasars creek for Muskie.
Helios 2 4-weight 8’6″ Mid Flex, Alberta Oldman, Cuts
Helios 2 8-weight 9′ Fly Rod—Tip Flex
Green Turtle Cay, Abaco, Bahamas
Bonefish!!!!!
Helios 2 5-weight 10′ Fly Rod—Tip Flex
Black Canyon of the Gunnison River, CO
Brown Trout
9′ 6wt for some wisconsin steelhead. Some great fishing up there.
9′ 9wt for some Canadian salmon.
8’4″ 2 weight Adirondack brook trout (Twitchell Creek)
5wt. 8’6″ 4piece. Rainbow trout North Georgia
I would go with a 9′ 5wt for some colorado trout
I would have a Helios 2 5 Wt Mid flex freshwater fly rod. I would spend a summer fly fishing in Yellowstone National Park Fishing for Yellowstone Cutthrought. That would give me plenty of time to fish the Firehole River and the Yellowstone River. Plus the Madison and Gallatin. I would just like to fish the Park every day.
I would go with a 9′ 9wt for some Canadian salmon.
9 weight
Anywhere. Heck, I’d go to the grocery with that rod
I would Use a 7wt switch for some steelhead in british columbia
I would use a 12wt for tarpon in Panama/Costa Rica border…. Bocas del Toro
I would use the 8 weight with tip flex in Northern Europe for Pike!!!!
9ft 8 weight tip flex. I would love to use it to chase pike in the lakes of northern Arizona. Looking for the over 40″ fish in a Arizona.
Where would I fish: At Green Lake in the middle of Seattle, during the first session of my “Beginner Fly Fishing”
class.
Which species: Which species live in a lake in Seattle? Politically liberal carp, I think.
Which Helios 2 model: Whichever one looks better than I will once I cast it. Oh. That’s all of them.
I’d like a 9′ 5 weight to use with Dave and Amelia Jensen over in New Zealand when it’s way too cold in Alberta, Canada!
9′ 8wt tip flex
Bonefish, baby
Florida Keys
Helios 2 11-weight 9′ Fly Rod—Tip Flex would be great to tackle the monster salmon up here in Alaska. The feeling of a huge king salmon pounding away on my rod on the Kenai would be absolutely amazing.
Helios 2 8’6″ 14 weight. I would take this fly rod to Papua New Guinea to fish for Niugini Bass. Although I know it would be tiresome, and maybe not even possible I would love to try.
6-weight 9′ Tip Flex
for large grayling, brown trout
at river San, Poland
12 wt H2
I would take it to the Seychelles
To chase big angry GT’s in salt water paradise
1. Helios 2 freshwater tip flex in 5 wt. and 9′ length
2.Slovenia
3.For big Marble Trouts and Rainbow Trouts.
Helios2 freshwater 9″ 7-9aftm rzeka Ina, troć wedrowna.
I would pack a 9 8wt Helios 2 in an old Winnebago for a two month extravaganza, cruising the coasts of the US, Carolina to Aaska, chasing anything that swims
9″ 9wt for Golden Dorado and Pacú in Bolivia
8wt Helios 2 11′ switch rod
Margaree River, Nova Scotia
Fall Atlantic Salmon!
Helios 2 Switch 7-weight 11′ Fly Rod—Tip Flex
Taimen (Hucho Taimen)
Eg River, Mongolia
Helios 2 Switch 7-weight 11′ Fly Rod—Tip Flex
Bluefish
Long Island Sound, CT
I’d take a 8’4″ 2 wt. into eastern Oregon and northern Nevada…and stay until the snow started to pile up.
I would choose the Helios 2 freshwater mid flex in 5 wt. and 9′ length. I would love to get up into Yellowstone and fish for some cutthroats!
Helios 2 9foot 9 wt
Tidal Potomac River
Snakeheads
7′ 4wt
i’d go back in time to when my dad was still alive and fish for trout with him on the natchaug river
I’d have to go with the 9′ 5wt mid flex, Patagonia Argentina, for huge browns and ‘bows.
9′ 6wt
New Zealand, South Island
Trout
I would have to go with a 5-weight 9ft mid flex to take up into the Sierras and try to find some golden trout.
9′ 6wt tip flex. Travelling around the western US with a motorhome towing my drift boat. Rainbows, browns, cutthroat.
I would want the Helios 2 5-weight 8’6″ Fly Rod—Mid Flex, I would go to the Pyrenees in Spain and fish for trout, especially the Zebra trout!
9′ 6wt tip flex for chasing big Browns on the dry at Mammoth Creek
I’d go with Helios 9ft./9wt. tip flex to fish The New River in NC/VA for Musky (then I’d take it to SC for rojos in the salt marsh).
Helios 2
7wt 10′
If I had unlimited funds and time I would love to take a trip to British Columbia. I would travel around fishing a variety of rivers and streams for huge steelhead, there would be nothing like it!!!
I could definitely use a new Helios2 9ft 6wt mid flex for these smallies and largemouth bass here in Ohio! I chase em from the Maumee river up to Lake Erie.
1.) 9′ 10 wt
2.) Upper Allegheny Watershed in Pennsylvania
3.) Muskies and Pike
Probably a 5wt and head out to Yellowstone
H2 4wt- I’d travel to Vermont. Slowly move through the mother ship and put myself in position to stalk the legendary giant rainbows of upper Perk pond… Landing them is the real challenge! Many have tried, few have succeeded!
103-4 to fish for trout at the White River in Arkansas
Helios 2 8-weight 9′ Fly Rod—Tip Flex – Off to Newfoundland and Labrador to chase Atlantic Salmon the last week of May, oh the fights!
1. 8’6 5 weight midflex
2. andorra spain
3. wild browns in the pyrenees
9′ 6wt tip flex
Backcountry trip to Wind River range, WY for cutties and goldens
8’4″ 3wt
Shenandoah wild specks
I would love to go to the Belize bone fishing, But since that is not to likely I would Love to win a 4Wt Helios 2 to fish my local waters in CT.
9′ 8 weight, Taimen fishing on the Eg-Uur in Mongolia
1.) Helios 2 9′ 5wt Mid Flex
2.) Upper Clarion River, PA
3.) Rainbow and Brown trout
9′ 7 wt saltwater tip flex to fish in Belize for Bonefish
How about a Helios 2 in a 8 weight Switch Rod to chase Atlantic Salmon in Ireland and Scotland? I’m up for that.
I’d like 7 wt 9ft rod for Golden Dorado in Patagonia
Helios2 9ft 8wt so I could cast Crazy Charlies for bonefish at the Bang Bang Club, Andros Island, Bahamas. The chance to meet the fly’s namesake would be amazing as well.
I’m thinking an 8’4″ 3wt to chase native cutties all over western montana. I can’t think of a better way to spend the summer.
I would choose the Helios 2 4-weight 9″ Fly Rod-Mid Flex for chasing big Maine brookies.
Helios 2 5-weight 9′ Fly Rod—Tip Flex
Adams River B.C.
Rainbow trout
I would choose a 9′ 8wt. Helios 2 to complete the final piece of my elaborate scheme – to fake my own death, disappear to the tropics, and become a saltwater fly-fishing bum! I’d set up shop somewhere in the Seychelles, and use the Helios 2 to pursue bonefish and other flats species. Think of it…no more ex-wife, no more IRS, no more student loans! Just me, a fly rod, and the company of a gorgeous island native. All I need is a Helios 2 to make my dreams come true!!
7-weight 11′ Switch Rod—Tip Flex – Wisconsin, Great Lakes Steelhead with my father.
9′ 7wt to chase Michigan Carp
10 ft 4 wt. The dream is the south island of New Zealand, but with a 16 month old baby I am happy for any time that I can get on the water these days.
10ft 4wt for trout on the South Island of New Zealand. I left out the species on my previous post.
I would have to go with the 9′ 12 wt for Christmas Island GT! Need the best to handle those beasts!
1: Helios 2 10-weight 9′ Fly Rod—Tip Flex
2: Mongolia
3: Big Taimen
Also use the 10wt for Musky up in Boudler Junction, WI
Ya gotta Go Big or Go Home!
Coastal Georgia, 9 ft, 8 wt, and some big redfish with my dad. We’d finally have a chance to get a double on the fly
1) Helios 2 6wt 9′ Mid-flex
2) As a homesick ex-pat, I would fish the rivers of Perthshire, Scotland – where I was first taught to fly-fish 15 years ago!
3) The fishing would be for some feisty Brown Trout.
Which Helios do I need? The one I plan to get next – the Helios 2 Switch, 7 weight-11′ Tip-Flex.
I’d be fishing it mainly on the Chagrin River in NE Ohio, and a few other favorite rivers where bright chrome Steelhead will test it.
I love the Helios line up!
Helios 2 12-weight 9′ Tip Flex
Belize
Permit & Tarpon
I’d choose a Helos 2 6ft. 2wt. for tiny dries and nymphs for Rainbow Trout in the tiny streams of Patagonia!