The Clarus family has been newly designed and had tons of emphasis on the salmon, trout, or steelhead fishing. The new rods got a jump in construction and is now built out of IM-8 Carbon. These two new center pin rods are awesome for your traditional centre pin style fishing and will double as great float rods when you get into that situation. Also with these new rods you will see grade A cork handles, Fuji aluminum oxide guides, Pac Bay rings on the handle.