Lagoon Fighter is a member of our Boat Casting Game rod series targeting GT - Giant Trevally, ロウニンアシ (浪人鯵) in Japanese. At present, big size GT is said to be one of the most challenging fishes in Boat Casting Game, a part of the Sport Fishing Casting Game that is sweeping the world.
GT is short for Giant Trevally, scientific name: Caranx ignobilis, a species of large marine fish classified in the jack family of Carangidae. It is called 浪人鰺 (Roninaji) in Japanese and has many other names around the world. GT is distributed throughout Indian Ocean, Red Sea, Kagoshima's Amami Ōshima, Okinawa, Australia, South China Sea, Taiwan Strait, many other places of tropical waters and areas of low salinity. They live in the depth between 10 to 100 meters and hunt their prey near drop offs and coral reefs. GT is the dream opponent of Boat Game Casting anglers, primary target for Casting Game beginners and every Big Game angler wants to create a record! Although endurance of GT is lower than Tuna but its explosive power and speed should not be underestimated. The name "Lagoon Fighter" is made to describe these calm, decisive and powerful warriors of coral reef lagoons.！
There are 2 main stages of fights when GT is hooked. First, when it dives suddenly towards deeper parts of drop offs or coral reefs at high speed; Second, the fight with its weight and water resistance caused by the profile of the fish against pulling. The difficulties of these 2 stages of fights are often multiplied by size of the fish. For example when the drag resistance of a spinning reel is set to 10~15Kg, a 20kg GT fight might take 8 minutes, a 40kg might take 15 minutes, an over 50kg size might take over 25 minutes to bring it to the surface. With considerations of depth or obstacles, fighting time might take even longer. To handle these situations, the development of a rod blank which is light weight, tough and effectively unleashes explosive power instantly is very important.
GT rod series often use Popper and fish shape Swim Bait lures, sensitivity of the tip of rod blank is essential. When using Popper, the tip needs power and toughness to create bubbles easily and get louder water hitting sound. When performing SwimBait actions, flexibility and narrowness of the middle section helps action dexterity and subtle creation of dash bubbles. Paying attention to the toughness and the explosive power of the middle section which serves double duties is important as well. During the fight, mid-section strength helps to provide returning force to slow down fish escape and helps to control its direction. When operating the rod at 45 degrees, steady and smooth rebound helps to turn the paused fish quickly towards the angler and let him retrieve immediately, this can decrease the physical power consumption effectively. Such rod blanks can only be made by materials combining new types of carbon fibre structures. With the improved qualities of toughness and durability, the latest rod blank inner wall is thicker and almost 30% lighter than those in the past. These new rod blanks are state of the art products from famous Japan factories and 100% made in Japan.
Besides the rod blanks produced by famous Japan factories, we are honoured to cooperate with a renowned professional workshop in the industry to assemble our rods entirely in Japan. Owner of this workshop is a veteran custom rods maker with experience in managing production for big brand names, every tiny detail is carefully handled to produce these rods like art pieces. Specially formulated thick lacquer is evenly coated to improve toughness and durability which ensures our hand-made lure rod series to satisfy the high specifications and become powerful weapons for expert anglers to pursue their dreams.
SPECIFCATIONS
Category
SPINNING CASTING CLASS
Blanks
High sensitivity and toughness - new carbon fibre structure type
