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GTPOPPING.COM Sponsors (Historical) => Australian Angling => Topic started by: AustralianAngling on June 17, 2010, 04:04:54 PM
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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.
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Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm not a bad fish, very fat
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Beautiful fish.
What are the specs of this rod Steve?
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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.
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Mmm big fish.. :D
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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
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I received an email for a pre-order for this rod but are any specs available yet ?
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Beautiful fish.
What are you talking about Luke - as far as GT's that big sucker is ugly as sin! :o ;D ;) ;)
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Beautiful fish.
What are you talking about Luke - as far as GT's that big sucker is ugly as sin! :o ;D ;) ;)
I'm pretty deranged Travis ;) 8)
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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
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Thanks Jim. It is a while since Smith had a real hit with a heavy casting rod, perhaps this will be it.
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(http://s4.postimage.org/2n1yc0hyc/IMG_3671.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/2n1yc0hyc/)
Hope if i do get one it doesn,t end up looking like my Tokara !!
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Jim
I would love to see video footage of how you managed that.
Care to elaborate on how you broke it ?
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Oh me oh my. Never thought much of the Tokara and got rid of mine not long after buying it.
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Yeah i certainly didn,t replace it with another one, and actually ended up getting a new Carpenter and a Ripplefisher instead.