70 KG GT SMITH HIIB ROCKET ROD

[AustralianAngling]

WRC-H?B Rocket Rod

Okubo-san's fighting time for the 70kg GT was 13 minutes.
Rod not designed for GT under 10kg.
It is more than 2 years since we started development. 
We will finish testing within July for product release in December.

[Brock Arifovic]

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm not a bad fish, very fat

[Luke Wyrsta]

Beautiful fish.

What are the specs of this rod Steve?

[AustralianAngling]

SMITH have not advised me of how rating yet.
A large amount of high modulus material was used in order to increase the repulsive power.  To make it more powerful, a new material has been used in lower section.

[Nathan Cefai]

Mmm big fish..

[Enoch Li]

What a great achievement!
I'm anticipating this HIIB Rocket release.  So curious to what Smith is doing nowadays for GT/Tuna fans !

thanks heaps for the foto

[Serge de Bruijn]

I received an email for a pre-order for this rod but are any specs available yet ?

[Travis Heaps]

Beautiful fish.

What are you talking about Luke - as far as GT's that big sucker is ugly as sin!   

[Luke Wyrsta]

Beautiful fish.

What are you talking about Luke - as far as GT's that big sucker is ugly as sin!   

I'm pretty deranged Travis 

[Jim Isherwood]

Hi Guys

Got these specs yesterday from Randy at JDM

Length 7'7"

Wt - 415g

Pack Length - 162cm

Lure wt  ~300g

Line  ~PE12

Power - EX Heavy

Action - M.Fast

Blank Material 24t + 30t + Kevlar Graphite

Max Drag - 11kg/45*   6kg/90*

Target - ~60kg over class GT

 

[Mark Harris]

Thanks Jim. It is a while since Smith had a real hit with a heavy casting rod, perhaps this will be it.

[Jim Isherwood]

Hope if i do get one it doesn,t end up looking like my Tokara !!

[AustralianAngling]

Jim

I would love to see video footage of how you managed that.
Care to elaborate on how you broke it ?

[Mark Harris]

Oh me oh my.  Never thought much of the Tokara and got rid of mine not long after buying it.

[Jim Isherwood]

Yeah i certainly didn,t replace it with another one, and actually ended up getting a new Carpenter and a Ripplefisher instead.