Freshwater Casting Rods

Synonymous with performance, the redesigned line of Shimano Zodias Spinning Rods incorporate Carbon Monocoque technology passed down from Shimano’s elite series of rods that set the industry standard for sensitivity. For 2020, Zodias rods couple the hollow Carbon Monocoque Grip into a CI4+ reel seat to achieve up to 30% more sensitivity than conventionally constructed models, ultimately transmitting vibration from underwater structure, lure action or bites into the palm of angler’s hand. Shimano’s Hi-Power X technology lies at the heart of Zodias rods and benefits anglers by increasing the transfer of energy through the rod for enhanced accuracy and casting distance as well as reduced blank twist for better control when fighting fish.

Features:

• Carbon Monocoque Grip
• Hi-Power X
• CI4+ Reel Seat
• Fuji K Alconite Guides
• Fuji K SiC Tip
• EVA Mid Grip

Oversize shipping fee may apply!  Especially with 8' and longer single piece rods.

All Rods are packaged with extreme care!

Being fisherman ourselves we take pride in not having rods break during shipping, to ensure they'll be enjoyed and fished. We make sure every rod is wrapped tightly with bubble wrap in the crucial areas and are suspended in a thick rod tube, to keep from being crushed or banged around.

The Daiwa Ardito TR has quality and sensitivity that you can take along while on the road.  The semi hard travel case is sturdy yet pliable and protects the rod during travel.  The V-Flex ferrule joint system is strategically placed for a smooth powerful action.  The X-45 bias construction prevents twisting of the blank for greather strenght and sensitivity.  Put the Daiwa Ardito TR travel rod in your car, truck, boat, or vacation home so you'll always be ready to catch 'em.

The Phenix Feather series is the newest in the Phenix bass series of rods. The new Feather series promises to be one of the lightest, most sensitive rods the fishing industry has ever seen. Thea unique taper of the Feather series blank is designed using a cross weave of 36and 40 ton carbon fiber with Phenix Rods proprietary Nanolite resins. this visual taper puts the balance of the new Feather rod in the palm of your hand. This series features new Essex T-ring Premium Carbide guides with FrameLoc technology. Phenix's own custom desinged carbon fiber reel seats with EVA handles and carbon fiber ring accents. The blank is design and minimalist build on new Feather rods will amaze every bass angler with the sensitivity, durability, and quality of this new technology never before seen in the fishing industry.

Features:

• New Tapered blank technology
• Nanolite Resin
• Carbon fiber reel seat

Phenix's Composite X has a long history of being an industry leading crankbait rod. Our new Composite X features the traditional execution of S-Glass to insure the optimum presentation of the crankbait while delivering a solid feedback of a graphite backbone.

• S-Glass / Graphite Composite
• Fuji Trigger / Cork Split Grip
• Fuji Alconite

The United Composites Swimbait Finatic Rod lineup is built upon a select number of UC DHX Blanks. The blanks incorporate the Dual Carbon Helix core as well as a layup of multi-modulus layers construction. All Swimbait Finatic rods are equipped with Fuji guides and reel seats along with lightweight EVA grips arranged as a split-grip design. They are attractively single wrapped in black with green and brown metallic detail. Built for the rigors of the ocean but designed for the finesse of the freshwater.

Finished Rods:

Swimbait Finatic Blanks:

All Swimbait Finatic blanks are part of the DHX Series. Like their series counterparts, each of these blanks utilize a Dual Carbon Helix core and multi-modulus layered construction. These blanks were born from the same technology materials, and soul of the Graphite USA blanks from the original company. You will be hard pressed to find a better fit for throwing big baits.

Command tournament-winning performance with the next generation of Shimano Expride B Casting Rods. Built upon a strong legacy with a backbone fortified by Shimano Hi-Power X technology, Shimano engineers expanded the Expride lineup with additional models and enhanced performance by adding a Carbon Monocoque handle.

This innovative and lightweight hollow carbon handle increases vibration transfer through the rod and into an angler's hand for up to 30% more sensitivity for superior bite transmission. Extremely lightweight with excellent balance, the new Expride rods feature CI4+ reel seats and don Fuji SiC guides for premium angling performance.

Shimano's Hi-Power X blank technology enables rod engineers to fine-tune rod actions with models specifically designed for versatility, power fishing, or throwing large swimbaits while also providing anglers with enhanced casting distance and accuracy. The next chapter of Expride's legendary and tournament-winning lineage is here.

The Phenix Feather series is the newest in the Phenix bass series of rods. The new Feather series promises to be one of the lightest, most sensitive rods the fishing industry has ever seen.

The unique taper of the Feather series blank is designed using a cross weave of 36 and 40 ton carbon fiber with Phenix Rods proprietary Nanolite resins. this visual taper puts the balance of the new Feather rod in the palm of your hand.

The Feather series features new Essex T-ring Premium Carbide guides with FrameLoc technology. Phenix's own custom desinged carbon fiber reel seats with EVA handles and carbon fiber ring accents. The blank is design and minimalist build on new Feather rods will amaze every bass angler with the sensitivity, durability, and quality of this new technology never before seen in the fishing industry.

Features:

• New Tapered blank technology
• Nanolite Resin
• Carbon fiber reel seat

The Dobyns Champion XP rods are the standard for sensitivity, strength, weight and balance! Champion Series rods feature proprietary high modulus graphite blanks, Fuji Tangle free K guides with SIC inserts, Kevlar wrapping, Fuji graphite reel seats and AA grade cork grips. Champion Series rods are light, strong, sensitive and perfectly balanced. 

We find these rods to be superior at casting both large and small swimbaits.  The handle, rear grip and fore grip are very comfortable.  One of the most noticeable aspects about the rod is the balance.  When paired up with most swimbait style reels, the rod isn't tip heavy, which is very common in longer rods.

The non-MT has a shorter rear handle section.

Knowing versatility is key for securing success in demanding inshore environments, we tuned the G. Loomis GCX Inshore Casting Rods to provide anglers with essential tools to tackle any salty situation. GCX Inshore touts battle-tested features required for running the coast, including a premium Fuji reel seat and an optimized SeaGuide guide train for performance-elevating balance on the water.

Proprietary Multi-Taper Design technology removes material where a blank is unlikely to fail and adds material where it might. This, combined with a beefed-up resin system for superior impact resistance, provides an overall package primed to withstand serious day-in and day-out abuse.

Yielding 11 spinning and 3 casting models, GCX Inshore makes it easy to find the right tool to tackle any inshore job. While no two tides or bites are alike, anglers equipped with GCX Inshore can fish confidently and know they are prepared for every ebb and flow.

Features:

Multi-Taper Design
SeaGuide Guide Train
Premium Cork Handles
Fuji Reel Seats
Handcrafted in Woodland, WA
Limited Lifetime Warranty

Oversize shipping fee may apply!  All Rods are packaged with extreme care!

Rebuilt as a one-piece model to tackle the depths with greater precision and control, the OROCHI XX LAUNCHER F6-711XXG steps up a weight class from F5 to F6, displaying surprising sensitivity along with its newfound power. Retooled taper is designed with a tip section that “gives” like traditional glass, loads effortlessly into the formidable mid-section to power sweeping-hooksets, then anchors the fight in the kabt reinforced butt section to overcome hard-fighting keepers.

kabt metal microfiber material, graphite, glass, and Micro Pitch Taping technologies combine to produce not only increased power, but also substantial increases to sensitivity. This allows heightened detection of bottom-composition changes, grass contact, bites and clearer feedback throughout the retrieve.

By modifying taper and material composition, LAUNCHER blends the properties of glass more smoothly with its graphite construction, allowing for a forgiving tip section that does not get in the way of load transition when casting heavier plugs. This allows LAUNCHER to more fully leverage the potential of its construction, casting a wider range of plugs with tremendous power and accuracy. 

Specifications:

The astonishing tensile strength and tenacious resilience of the kabt‘s shape-memory metal microfibers are woven into a layered, multi-axis arrangement that reinforces the butt-section of each blank, delivering a superior power-to-weight ratio and more decisive lifting-power and control.

Multi-tonnage construction: Each blank utilizes low-resin carbon of varying tonnage. By matching the desired bend-characteristics of each point to the ideal tonnage, each blank is able to realize ever-greater potential—which translates into silky-smooth load transfer across all taper-types for intuitive cast and feel.

Spiral Architect Reel Seat: A Megabass-original designed for low-profile ergonomics, maximum blank exposure, structural integrity, and efficient grip-shifts when moving from casting to palming.

Micro-Pitch Taping: Un-sanded finishing tape features higher wrapping-density for increased durability and blank crispness.

Fuji® Stainless SiC Guides

Oversize shipping fee may apply!  Especially with 8' and longer single piece rods.

All Rods are packaged with extreme care! 

Being fisherman ourselves we take pride in not having rods break during shipping, to ensure they'll be enjoyed and fished. We make sure every rod is wrapped tightly with bubble wrap in the crucial areas and are suspended in a thick rod tube, to keep from being crushed or banged around. 

The Megabass Destroyer P5 (JDM) F6-69X Super Destroyer is perhaps the epitome of the series, harnessing the successive technologies of each generation to challenge preconceptions of heavy-action angling. Built on a compact 6’9” frame, the 5-D GRAPHITE SYSTEM harnesses greater power per inch to deliver quick, destructive hooksets and submission-inducing lifting power.

The SUPER DESTROYER’s outstanding balance is geared towards a tip-up ready posture, the perfect battle stance for lure manipulation and lightning-fast hooksets. Not only does the shorter overall length contribute to faster hooksets, it also increases maneuverability, close-quarters control, and opens up new angling avenues to challenge traditional heavy-cover games.

Revolution brings destructive change. This DESTROYER is king of them all.

In 1995, Yuki Ito prototyped the Destroyer® of traditional bass rods, drawing upon his hand-carved ARMS to unleash an unrivaled fusion of craft and technological innovation upon the Japanese bass market. Each subsequent generation of Destroyer® reached beyond the standards and conventions of their time to establish a new benchmark. A quarter-century later, “Project Living Legend” was established to ensure that each cycle of destruction and creation through innovation preserved Megabass’ rich DNA, bringing anglers ever-closer to the ideal.

Guided by this spirit, the LAIHA program gave birth to a limited concept rod series in 2019, developed to test and refine standard-destroying technologies to push innovation past present limits. From this tireless effort, the 5-D Graphite System was born. Representing a paradigm shift in the blank construction process, 5-D enables a more perfect realization of the Destroyer® through a new method of patterning and layering, unlocking untold potential.

Thus, with each generation, all change—especially destructive—is embraced in the technological pursuit of the angling ideal. Out of this cycle, Destroyer® rises anew to challenge anglers to new heights.

ZALDAIN 3D DYNAMICS PERFORMANCE GRIP

Inspired by Chris Zaldain’s fight in the top echelons of the world’s oldest and toughest bass fishing circuit, the B.A.S.S. Elite Series, ZALDAIN 3D DYNAMICS strives towards a more perfect union of angler and equipment. Each hand-formed carbon fiber handle takes shape as if custom made for each angler’s hands, providing comfortable contours for enhanced grip and the superior vibration transmission properties of carbon material.

 IBCS:

Guided by angler bionomics, the Megabass original IBCS reel seat is an achievement in angler/equipment integration, ushering in a new era of comfort, utility, and performance. Minimalistic grip contours and stable short-trigger design allow for intuitive grip transitions as the angler moves through the cycle of casting, rod work, hookset and landing. Blank contact areas are maximized to deliver precise feedback without sacrificing control. Carefully formed squat-trigger design is wide and short to provide the grip you need to cast heavy lures and manage hard-pulling crankbaits.

Regardless of your preferred style, the new IBCS seat inspires confident grip for every situation.

DESTROYER ORIGINAL TIGHT THREADING FUJI TITANIUM FRAME SIC-S GUIDE

THREAD COLOR

BASE : AIRFORCE-SCURO

PINLINE : KISHUBUSSIN-PURPLE

OUTER TRIM : STREAM GALAXY

To further reduce unnecessary weight and improve performance, the Destroyer® utilizes a smaller-diameter thread made of special fiber, which allows for tighter, more effective guide wraps. This not only minimizes the wrap area and associated epoxy to reduce weight—it minimizes any negative impact that hard epoxy guide wraps can have on the natural bend-curve of the blank. The result is a smoother, more intuitive blank with minimalistic threading for maximum strength and performance.

END BALANCER (COLOR: BRONZE METEO)

Weight-saving improvements in blank construction, thread wrapping method, reel seat and head locker design result in a lighter rod, which allows for lighter counterweights to achieve the ideal “Takumi” balance for each application. Even the F6-69X, which is balanced for a tip-up posture for heavy-cover applications utilizes a mere 8g counterweight contained in the END BALANCER’s machined metal form. To reflect this achievement, the shining gold end cap emblem of previous generations has been updated to an understated “Bronze Meteo” finish.

5-D GRAPHITE SYSTEM

Megabass Destroyer P5 F6-69X Super Destroyer. The blank technology newly developed through the experimental LAIHA project is the 5-D GRAPHITE SYSTEM. As the name implies, this blank construction methodology leverages five prepreg patterns to best address five elements—vertical axis, horizontal axis, oblique axis, elongation and elasticity—and combine each in a painstaking puzzle matrix to maximize the application-specific performance of every blank. The cohesiveness of each completed puzzle enables a fusion of disparate parts, reducing the unnecessary prepreg overlap of traditional patterning and layering. This not only reduces material waste; it allows for a more precisely smooth taper and seamless load transition for truly intuitive performance.

DESTROYER HEAD LOCKING SYSTEM 3

Based on the machined-aluminum head-locking structure developed in the LAIHA concept project, the new Destroyer® HEAD LOCKING SYSTEM 3 is optimized for production status. The structure is the lightest of all Destroyer® series to-date, minimizing any potential interference in blank resonance and vibration transmission through the reel, in addition to highlighting the purpose-built elegance of each rod model.

The Megabass Destroyer P5 F4-65X OneTen Stick is designed to revolutionize jerkbaiting, featuring 5-D graphite construction for maximum efficiency. A length of 6'5" provides better control while requiring less angler input to activate a jerkbait's motion. Its 5-D construction ensures a responsive blank, making it easier to hit slack line and dial-in jerkbait cadence.

The Megabass Destroyer P5 F4-65X OneTen Stick is designed to provide anglers with more accuracy while jerkbait fishing. Its larger-diameter guides add weight to the tip for better control and reduce ice buildup in colder months. Look for the line to reverberate and shake to indicate a successful downward jerk.

The G. Loomis IMX-Pro Blue Casting Rods are high-performance, saltwater-specific rods designed for inshore and light-duty offshore fishing, particularly tailored for Northeast and Southeast coastal environments.

Engineered with G. Loomis’ proprietary Multi-Taper Technology, these rods feature lightweight, high-modulus graphite blanks with micro-taper designs that reinforce stress points while reducing unnecessary material, delivering exceptional strength-to-weight ratios and dynamic actions. Ideal for targeting species like stripers, fluke, bluefish, blackfish, and small tuna, the IMX-Pro Blue series offers a range of actions to suit various techniques, from casting topwater spooks and swimbaits to live-lining mullet or jigging bucktails. 

Premium components include full cork grips for comfort during long sessions, Fuji reel seats for secure reel attachment, and Fuji K-Frame Fazlite guides for tangle-free casting with braided lines. Many models feature gimbal butts for compatibility with rod holders and fighting belts, ensuring stability during battles with hard-fighting fish. Handcrafted in Woodland, Washington, USA, these rods combine sensitivity, power, and durability to elevate your saltwater fishing experience in challenging coastal conditions.

Specifications

Notes:

• Blank Material: High-modulus graphite with Multi-Taper Technology for lightweight durability and precise actions.

• Guides: Fuji K-Frame Fazlite guides, corrosion-resistant and optimized for braided lines.

• Handle: Full cork grips (Handle A: standard cork, Handle B: cork with gimbal butt for heavier models).

• Reel Seat: Fuji reel seats for secure and comfortable reel mounting.

• Applications: Ideal for Northeast and Southeast saltwater fishing, including casting swimbaits, topwaters, bucktails, and live bait for stripers, fluke, blackfish, bluefish, and small tuna.

• Features: Lightweight design (up to 15% lighter than comparable rods), gimbal butts on heavier models (845C M, 905C M), handcrafted in the USA.