Sage R8 Core Fly RodsR8 CORE is focused on maximum versatility and applies new revolutionary R8 material technology through our forward thinking lens of what were seeing out on the water where one rod needs to show even greater range. At its core, R8 CORE traces a direct lineage to Sages multi application fast action vision, one shaped by the fishing evolutions happening all around usfrom habitats we stalk and waters we frequent, to the flies we fish and the diversity of