why a rod balancer?

Rod balance is important for all day comfort and keeping the rod tip where you want it.  Rod balance is also important when walking with your rod to keep the tip from constantly rising or diving.

Perhaps the biggest advantage of having a weight adjustable reel is to adapt across different rod lengths  and materials.  Long or short, carbon or bamboo all have quite different balance requirements. What do you do?  Typically you need a different reel for each to get a reasonable balance point.  A single URSUS reel can be adapted quickly to many rod lengths and materials.

Hiking long distances with your fly rod assembled and then fishing tight streams for small native trout is demanding.  The URSUS reel is small and nimble yet balances with long carbon rods, our favorite for high-sticking small high elevation streams.  If you choose to take your bamboo rod to the back country, the URSUS rod balancer is even more important to get small reel size and proper rod balance.