Tested New feeder rod from Colmic

Adventure series is keyed to distance and payload

ITALIAN brand Colmic has been around the UK match scene for many years, with products such as Colmic Jolly pole floats..

Its nickelled Nuclear 501 pattern is the forerunner to many commercial carp hook designs, and it’s fair to say that Colmic poles – and rods, for that matter – have proved very popular.

It’s always going to be tricky for a European company to gain a really strong foothold, though – think Trabucco and Tubertini.

However, at this year’s Big One show Colmic revealed several very impressive new poles, seatboxes and rods for commercial fisheries.

One of the outstanding new rod concepts at the show was Colmic’s three-rod 9ft 25g, 10ft 35g and 11ft 45g Scrape Feeder Xtreme Next Adventure series. All three of the two-piece blanks have a typical fast parabolic action, marrying a forgiving tip section to a midsection with plenty of backbone, allowing fish to be played quickly to the net without the risk of hook-pulls or snapped lines.

Colmic has built its three Adventure rods with a taper unique to each in respect of casting distance and feeder weight. The shorter the rod, the faster the taper – the longer the rod, the stronger its lever, which translates into casting power and ability to bring fish quickly to the net. All three models are said to be ideal for use with cage, pellet, Method and block-end feeders, as well as straight lead tactics.

The model on live test duty, the mid-range 10ft 35g rod, should be well suited to most short to middistance feeder work on a normal commercial fishery.

The proving ground for the theory was Decoy’s fish-packed Lou’s lake, a horseshoe-shaped water that responds particularly well to far-bank feeder tactics. Accurate casts of around 35m are needed to get the best from it.

Starting the session using a lightweight 15g flatbed Method feeder, the sporty Italian blank cast straight as a die time

after time, and despite early reservations about its short and rather delicate looking quivertip carrier section, the silver-etched black blank really did produce an impressively fast parabolic action. Carp from 2lb-5lb were beaten in double-quick time.

The rod comes with three push-in fibreglass quivertips of 1/2oz, 1oz and 1.5oz, and the featherweight blank features two double-leg lined guides on its butt section, with another five single-leg lined guides perfectly placed along its carrier section to emphasise the fast taper action.

Suited to mainlines up to 8lb and hooklengths down to around 0.12mm, it’s lots of fun to use, mainly because it’s nigh impossible to lock up.

As an all-round commercial feeder rod it not only looks different from the norm, but it performs in a refreshingly different way from your average bog-standard commercial feeder rod… grazie Colmic!

Price: £77.99