In its two smaller sizes, the Cascapedia is a simply lovely reel for trout on streams, rivers and stillwaters. It's great to use, great to look at and has an army of unshakeable fans. Just try the baby of them all with a two or three-weight line on a moorland stream and you'll be smitten, we absolutely guarantee.

But it's in its two larger sizes taking salmon lines from eight to twelve weight that we are getting the most immediate and enthusiastic feedback. The Cascapedia's 'S' shaped handle says salmon to everyone the world over: it's such a recognised emblem of quality.

Yes, it looks right, it feels right but, above all, it performs right. I've had some very, very big fish from four continents. That represents a lot of white-knuckle fights and the Cascapedia has always done the job. In teeming rain, in sandstorms, in baking heat it has never even hiccupped. Its disc drag can bulldoze any fish to a stop and I love the little details like the drag regulator that tells you exactly where you are in those looming crises all big fish men dread. I've never oiled it or cleaned it or even wiped it down but my Cascapedia is still as smooth and as willing as the day it came out of its box. So it suits my hard-fishing lifestyle to perfection. Simon Channing, world fishing traveller.