{"id":2092,"date":"2026-08-29T10:12:51","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T09:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/?p=2092"},"modified":"2026-08-29T10:12:51","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T09:12:51","slug":"tornado-5-serial-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/2026\/08\/29\/tornado-5-serial-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Tornado 5 Serial 11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">This blank took an incredibly long time to finalise. Many years in fact!! You would think that fitting inbetween the HT4 and HT6 would be relatively easy. It turned out not to be the case. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Knowing how important the 9\u2019 5-weight is for the US market meant that I had to be fully certain of this rod. The HT6 is really the flagship model, but in the US it is the HT5. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Here is a video I made about the rod a few years ago\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sexyloops HT905\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oBcBu0x9wnE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Every rod comes with a Zoom casting meet with me. And a 1 in 666 chance of becoming a pirate. Pirate hats will be included.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2095\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2051-300x124.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"124\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2051-300x124.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2051-1024x422.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2051-768x316.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2051-1536x633.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2051-1200x494.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2051.jpeg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2093\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2053-300x125.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"125\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2053-300x125.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2053-1024x426.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2053-768x319.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2053-1536x639.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2053-1200x499.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2053.jpeg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2096\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2050-300x174.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"174\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2050-300x174.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2050-1024x592.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2050-768x444.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2050-1536x889.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2050-1200x694.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2050.jpeg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2094\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2052-300x80.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"80\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2052-300x80.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2052-1024x272.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2052-768x204.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2052-1536x408.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2052-1200x319.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2052.jpeg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Email me on <a href=\"mailto:paul@sexyloops.com\">paul@sexyloops.com<\/a> or WhatsApp me on +60198549552 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Cheers, Paul<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This blank took an incredibly long time to finalise. Many years in fact!! You would think that fitting inbetween the HT4 and HT6 would be relatively easy. It turned out not to be the case. Knowing how important the 9\u2019 5-weight is for the US market meant that I had to be fully certain of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/2026\/08\/29\/tornado-5-serial-11\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tornado 5 Serial 11&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2095,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2092"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2092"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2100,"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2092\/revisions\/2100"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}