Rio MOW Tips Review with Simon Gawesworth

Rio MOW tips are built on RIO’s ConnectCore for ultra-low stretch performance. These are a great addition to your current tip line-up. These tips allow anglers using different lines to cover every likely fishing situation or condition encountered.

Hello, Simon Gawesworth here, Rio Products, talking today about MOW Tips. Now MOW Tips are not new for us this year, MOW Tips have been out for a number of years, but it's time to talk about these things again because every steelhead angler, every salmon angler should fish a MOW Tip, and the reason is, first of all, they are very simple to use.

A MOW Tip looks like this. This is a MOW, and it's pronounced 'moh,' just in case you say 'mao,' this is not Chinese, it's a MOW Tip. And there's many reasons, but very simply it's the abbreviations of the guys who came up with it: Mike McCune, Scott O’Donnell and Ed Ward were the guys who came up this, that's what the abbreviation comes from.

What a MOW tip is, it's basically a tip that has multiple sections. This a floating five and five. It's got five foot of floating, and it's got five feet of sinking. So almost all the MOW Tips are 10 foot long, and all that happens is you adjust the different amount of sinking section to get different depths. They're very easy, you just always have a 10 foot tip, and that's why these tips are so great. If you want to put a 2.5 foot sinking tip, you don't put on 2.5 foot, you're putting a 10 foot tip on. If you want 10 foot sinking tip, you're still putting a 10 foot tip on. So you're always keeping the same length tip, and that's one of the cool things about these MOW Tips is you keep the same length tip.

If it says IMOW, like this little one here, IMOW, I is for intermediate, that means a section of the back end is intermediate. If it doesn't say IMOW that means the back end's gonna be floating, if there's not pure sinking. So there's a whole range of sizes, from the light, what we call a light, which involves T-8, that's good for your three, four, five, six weights; right up to the heavy, extra heavy MOWs of T-17, and that's good for your 10 and 11 weights for getting down.

So lots of options, lots of varieties, look for your MOW Tips and IMOW Tips. If you're gonna throw big flies, those are the tips for you when you're fishing.