Neritica Fishing Rod Blanks are constructed in a ‘state of the art’ facility with over 30 years of investment in computer aided engineering and quality controlled processes. At the centre of technology and quality is the unwavering commitment to innovation. It is this innovation that has resulted in a rod blank that has to be felt to be understood, something very special.
Our design principle is that every blank that leaves our facility meets these criteria:
- Designed for the specific application – casting effortlessly & impacting action to lures that tournament anglers need
- Fast recovery – one thing you will notice as soon as you hold on of our blanks is how crisp the blank is, how it loads up powerfully and recovers promptly
- Sensitivity – Being able to feel every little bump and twitch of the lure, the bait and the sinker as they meet different substructures, sand, rock, gravel keeping you in touch the whole time
- Power distribution – put simply the modulus, wall thickness, taper and cloth join design have been chosen specifically to produce a blank distributes power to minimise the load placed o the angler.
Fishing Rod Blank Construction:
Multi Directional Carbon Core
The objective is to create the perfect rod, powerful, light, sensitive and functional.
In an effort to reduce weight and increase sensitivity of rods most manufacturers use pre impregnated carbon cloth with high modulus carbon and low resin content. Unfortunately a higher modulus carbon also results in a loss in strength and a blank that is more brittle and prone to breakages.
Our unidirectional carbon prepreg is rolled around the mandrel in layers. Each layer has the direction of the caron fibres at different angles (MDCC). This technique has been refined to find the optimum balance between Strength, weight and sensitivity. The MDCC results in a significantly stronger “hoops” that are much more resistant to the distortion of the hoops while under load.
By changing the direction of each layer of carbon prepreg the strength of the carbon is positioned to handle forces from different directions, without the need to add weight.
The MDCC virtually eliminates the blank twist during loading. This improves power and control, when casting or fighting a fish.
The other benefit is that sensitivity is maintained yet the recovery time is drastically improved, meaning the blank very quickly transmits any vibrations but then recovers back into place promptly resulting in a crisp blank that telegraphs everything that is happening at the other end.