IN DEVELOPMENT
Three Buoys gear on the bench
Our own rod and reel, being designed and tested for the water we fish. These are development programs — follow along and tell us what you’d want from them.
ROD PROGRAM
MIDCHANNEL Rod
A rod designed around the way the Upper Bay actually fishes — the blank, the taper, and the trade-offs, documented as they’re decided.
See the program → REEL PROGRAMFAIRLEAD 3000 Reel
A 3000-size spinning reel worked out in the open — gearing, drag and sealing choices, and why each one was made.
See the program →
THE RECORD
Engineering & field journal
Development logs & field trials
The running record of prototype iterations, material choices and on-the-water testing behind the gear above — the honest version, including what didn’t work.
Read the journal →
TEST BENCH
Interactive tools
Working models we built to reason about tackle — play with them, they’re part of how we test ideas.