MOW Tips, Hardy Reels Spey Classes, Teeny Leeches

Spey-Jedi, Ed Ward was one of the first of a small group of hardcore anglers that began utilizing such tips in the late 1990’s/ early 2000 period. Mike McCune and Scott O’Donnell had been using custom-made Cheaters as length compensators for short T-14 tips on both the Oregon Coast as well as their Grande Ronde fall guide season. Over the course of the last 10 years, other folks have gotten onto this concept via the 3 Amigos allowing the Secret Society to build their own “chop-shop” product. This concept was needed to overcome the boomerang effect of fishing 2.5’ to 7.5’ sinktips that were attached directly to a Skagit or even a Windcutter type head. The integrated floating portion provides a buffer of smoothness making casting such short tips feasible, smooth and effective.
Usage. 
To quote Mike McCune: "One of the primary reasons for our adherence to Skagit principles is its unmatched versatility under a broad range of fishing applications. Not all good steelhead water is of a classic format. Indeed, some of my best water is anything but classic. Basalt ledges punctuated by large boulders defines many of my “go-to” spots. This is where the short tip excels. Having the capability to swing the fly through the zone with proper speed is very difficult if not impossible when using standard length sinking tips. Often, I can consider that I am steering the fly through this type of water as much as swimming it. One of the most difficult aspects confronting the sunken fly angler is developing the ability to see the imaginable third dimension that exists below the water surface. I think that these tips help greatly in regard to learning this. Other examples of the use of short tips would be clear water extreme angle presentations, shallow tail-outs and enhanced depth penetration under summer/fall conditions."
Other uses for the M.O.W. system would be small-stream pocket water, along with boulder patches (Oregon Coast/Olympic Peninsula/SE Alaska), deep frog-water steelhead runs that have always proved problematic to the standard sink-tip approach, Alaskan slough-edge king and silver water along with general high-water soft edges.
It should be pointed out that these tips excel on both shorter Spey rods (12’3” to 13’9”) along with Switch rods in the 10’6” to 11’6” range. The M.O.W. concept in its initial offering features T-14 and T-11 systems (T-8 available September, 2010). T-11 M.O.W.’s will for the most part match up with 425 to 625 grain heads while T-14 will match up with 475 to 750 grain heads. However, as with all things Spey, there is always a given level of overlap which is to say the T-11 can and will perform on a 650 to 750 grain setup and that a T-14 in a 2.5’ or 5.5’ M.O.W. will see time on 350 to 450 grain heads. McCune, in his initial write-up, felt that tip selection (T-14 vs. T-11) was greatly influenced in terms of overall fly size and weight coupled with such factors as water speed/depth/temperature along with rod setup/size with consideration to wind direction and severity. 
M.O.W. System Kits and Individual Pieces.  Available May 10^th will be both the M.O.W. Kits and individual tips as follows…

Kits
Both T-11 & T-14 Kits, $149.95/kit retail complete with wallet consisting of:
2.5’ x 7.5’ M.O.W.
5’ x 5’ M.O.W.
7.5’ x 2.5’ M.O.W.
Both 10’ & 12’ Double-Looped Sinking tips
10’ Floating Tip