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Custom built ultralight quivertip rod, any ideas?

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Rob Francis

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Hi all,
I would love to have an ultralight quivertip rod built for fishing on small rivers and drains local to me.
Ideally something that could take glass plug in quivertips for small Roach, perch and Gudgeon etc.
I've been searching but cannot find anything so was wondering if anyone here may have, or know of such a thing?
Or anything I could buy and have rebuilt/refinished maybe?
Thanks in advance,
Rob
 
My gudgeon feeder rod is a 10ft free spirit ctx feederlite sl, comes with 0.25oz glass tip. Very nice rod, but I hate the handle, maybe at some point I will have it rebuilt to my spec.
 
Huanzhou Zhu said:
My gudgeon feeder rod is a 10ft free spirit ctx feederlite sl, comes with 0.25oz glass tip. Very nice rod, but I hate the handle, maybe at some point I will have it rebuilt to my spec.
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Thanks, I did look at the Hi-S version but that only comes with carbon quivers.
 
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Rob Francis said:
Thanks, I did look at the Hi-S version but that only comes with carbon quivers.
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No the cork and eva one.
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They are pretty rare, but love your thinking. I bought last Spring when they were virtually giving away Shakespeare gear, great if you were lucky to have them survive the couriers. I had two rods that did a Superteam 11 ft feeder, and a beautiful little 10ft light quiver with 3 tips 3/4 1.0 and 1.5 its called the Concept. Retailed at about 80 quid but you still can find one half that.
These rods are fine for low flows on river or ponds, all cork and a nice grey blank. Had chub to 5lb roach gudgeon the lot, very good little rod.
Of course you can spend 200 on a bespoke rod but what the heck..
 
Neil Smart said:
They are pretty rare, but love your thinking. I bought last Spring when they were virtually giving away Shakespeare gear, great if you were lucky to have them survive the couriers. I had two rods that did a Superteam 11 ft feeder, and a beautiful little 10ft light quiver with 3 tips 3/4 1.0 and 1.5 its called the Concept. Retailed at about 80 quid but you still can find one half that.
These rods are fine for low flows on river or ponds, all cork and a nice grey blank. Had chub to 5lb roach gudgeon the lot, very good little rod.
Of course you can spend 200 on a bespoke rod but what the heck..
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I got the amp solitude light quiver last year as well, comes with 0.5oz tip, nice rod, great for chub, but not as light as the fs one.
 
An old Drennan ultralight bomb rod might be worth looking at, it was well respected by match guys for snatching little silvers on the tip
 
If you can find a hardy supero bomb or even the original bomb rod , it's perfect for light work, but will also handle larger fish if required.
Quite a remarkable rod really.
 
Alan Palmer said:
An old Drennan ultralight bomb rod might be worth looking at, it was well respected by match guys for snatching little silvers on the tip
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I’d second that, I have a mint one in 10’ to 11’ version. It comes with two top sections having 0.75oz and 1oz spliced in tips. They are carbon tips but very sensitive and importantly slow taper.

I occasionally use on the local canal or for Perch on the Severn.
 
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I have a brand new 10ft browning sphere 10% plus rod which is the more powerful of the two, hence the 10%..
It's very light with an assortment of light tips, perfect for a small river....i've never used it though.
I have a shimano technium 11ft 3 inch specialist quiver, it has a selection of lovely long white tips, i've used it several times and had tiny dace, rud and a few nice tench with it, it looks as new even though its been used.
I have a unused 11ft marksman supero quiver, the rod is suitable for tiny fish to whatever sized barbel you are likely to come across.

None of them are advertised anywhere, but, everything is for sale for the right price.
 
Thanks all for the reply’s and suggestions so far.
I’ve actually got a 9ft Acolyte Ultra with a 0.5oz tip which would probably be perfect but really fancy getting something custom made.
Stupid I know but it’s one of those itches…
 
Rob Francis said:
Thanks all for the reply’s and suggestions so far.
I’ve actually got a 9ft Acolyte Ultra with a 0.5oz tip which would probably be perfect but really fancy getting something custom made.
Stupid I know but it’s one of those itches…
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Speak to Mark Tunley - definitely not ultralight but he made me a Torrix with a 2oz spliced tip that I didn’t know existed until I gave him the brief - lovely bloke
 
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