A medium action sits somewhere in the middle and are most versatile. Fast action rods will give you that long casting distance and the power needed to cope with heavy winds, whereas slow action is best suited to those smaller streams and rivers. Do you fish on wide open lakes and huge, fast-flowing rivers, or are small mountain streams more your thing? This will affect whether you should go for a fast, medium or slow action. First, think about where and what you tend to fish most often. So, despite several attempt to tell him that the Smuggler he was checking was dodgy, he would have none of it.Buying a premium product isn’t something you should rush into, if you want to find the right one that will continue to serve you well for years to come. He can't remember how many times he's had to do this, but not very many in all his 45 years of service. If George finds anything wrong with the rod at this point ("which is very unusual as it would have been spotted along the line at each checking stage") he rejects it. For quality control purposes, his word overrides even that of the MD's.
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In her "office" also works George, the "final check man".
#Hardy fly rod serial numbers crack
"The numbers don't follow on numerically," she told me, "it's a unique system and you'd never crack it." She can immediately tell if a rod is not a genuine Hardy one, simply by being told the number. Cath's been doing it for 42 years and is now training an understudy, Sarah, for the day when she retires.Ĭath has a method of numbering the rods, a very secret method. If you possess a Hardy rod that was made from the mid-1950s onwards, take a look for it is her hand-writing you'll see on it. But finally we came to the room where the woman - Cath - who was the purpose for my visit worked. In the 1970's when there was a craze for cork soled platforms, the cork trees were stripped more often and they have never recovered from this pillaging, apparently. The cork for all the handles comes from Portugal where it is stripped from the trees every seven years. They are also the only company in the world that makes telescopic canes for the blind, a Millenium-award winning product. Andy told me that Hardy's build different rods for the Italians (who cast faster, a fact that suprises me greatly - the French or Norwegians cast the slowest). The CF rod can then be polished, coloured or left rough depending what the finish specification is. It then cools down veeeeeery slowly, the mandrel is pulled out (think of making brandy snaps) and the shrink tape is unwrapped, leaving those marks. Shrink tape is then wrapped around the whole thing and it is cooked for an hour at 120 degrees celcius. Carbon fibre cloth is rolled under pressure around this mandrel so that it will take the width of the mandrel (hence there are different length and thickness).
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They are made by taking a stainless steel 'mandrel' (a long rod shape). A carbon fibre rod takes only six days which seems positively production line in comparison.Īnd if you've ever wondered what those funny ridges you see in your carbon fibre rod are (look carefully) I can tell you. (After referring to a "split cane" rod for about half an hour, Andy gently told me that there is no such thing readers, remember that in snooty tackle shops and get one over on them.) Now I began to understand why they can cost thousands (italics) of pounds. This makes it more expensive and difficult to make but also enables it to be made lighter without loss of strength.Īs the tour continued, I learnt that it takes six whole weeks to make a split bamboo rod. Now the Bouglé is barstock made (originally it was cast, as all reels were in those days) which means it is made out of a single chunk of metal.
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All fishermen have their favourite reels, made by all types of manufacturers but Hardy's are regarded by many as some of the finest (in Sportfish's shop in Hereford, before they started locking them away, Hardy reels were the most stolen). Andy showed me the Bouglé reel, which was reintroduced last year to mark Hardy's 125 year anniversary, but was first manufactured in 1903 and named after the man commissioned it, a Monsieur Bouglé.