The good news is that no one managed to explode an HT10\/ Comp5 V2 at the Word Championships. This means we have an HT10 in stock!\u00a0We have been trying to build our stock levels and get ahead of ourselves for about 6 months now – to no avail (apparently, according to Lee, I\u2019m selling too fast!).<\/p>\n
The HT12 prototype wasn\u2019t so lucky. I\u2019ve always maintained that if you manufacture fly rods then you need to put the rod in competitors\u2019 hands and let them go wild.<\/p>\n
Five years ago at a Scottish Meet, Stefan Siikavaara managed to break HT6 prototype no3 after beating it up for 2 hrs. We rebuilt it, made it stronger, and spent another year testing it – giving you the HT6 we have now.<\/p>\n
Three years ago in Romania I blew up a rather nice 7\u20196 #3 – which is still work in progress.<\/p>\n
Last weekend Mikael Blomberg found (and exploited!) a weakness in the HT12 that ultimately might have cost us a lot of money, time and reputation to put right. So I\u2019m indebted to him – truly.<\/p>\n
Fly rod testing with the Rod Killers \ud83d\ude42 \ud83d\ude42 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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