The Rio Gold has a revolutionary taper design that gives incredible loop stability at distance, a unique profile that allows a rod to load at close range and a front taper that delivers perfect presentation of flies between sizes #22 and #2. The Rio Gold is th ultimate all round, floating line for the trout fly fisher and is built with “MaxFloat Tip” technology, Rio’s propietary tip coating formula that floats more than twice as high as regular line tips, without any increase in diameter