Description
Big River Barbel 12ft 2.25lb Rod
Second Hand
Condition: 9/10, comes with rod bag
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‘S’ Range model
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36t low resin Japanese carbon
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Full cork handle
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Stainless steel fittings,
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Clone Carbon reel seat with isotope slot
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‘S’-Lite guides
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Perdurable’ mat finish blanks
- Weight :292g
- Guides: 'S'-Lite 25-8mm Tip
The Big River Barbel was again developed with the help and advice from Steve Pope. Following the success of the Barbel Seekers he felt we needed an additional rod with more power in the butt to middle to cope with the flows when rivers like the Trent, Wye and Severn are in spate conditions.
Steve brought me two rods that purported to be big river Barbel rods but were in fact 2¼lb carp rod blanks made up as so called Barbel rods. One in fact had the carp logo under a whipping! These actions are not right for the job since a light action carp rod is very progressive and has a shallow taper with not very responsive tip and soft butt to mid- section. They fold up when faced with powerful Barbel in big flows.
We set about designing from scratch the blank and have produced a rod with bags of power in the butt and lower middle sections for stopping express Barbel in full flight and with a sensitive tip to allow registration of the faintest of bites.
