It has recieved a double airing - the FM Concept I mean.
I hadn't done any serious coarse fishing for over 3 years, fly fishing claiming the lion's share of my fishing activities. This year however I am back on the coarse fishing trail and was keen to give one of a pair of rods I possess an airing.
They are the Harrison Fishing Magic Concept rods, designed by Graham Marsden, myself and with essential help from Dr Steve Harrison of Harrison Advanced Rods.
Even though I say it myself, what excellent rods these Concepts are and even though the design is over 10 years old, it is bang up to date. I cannot think of a better rod to handle general legering in river and still water for tench, barbel, chub, bream, big roach and even pike. In fact I have landed double figure fenland pike on mine, no problems whatsoever.
Yesterday I was using one of my Concepts to fish for tench on a local stillwater using method feeder tactics. Again I was impressed by the forgiving nature of the rod, and also its capablity of casting a large oversized method feeder a considerable distance with only a gentle swing. The all-through nature of the rod's action enabled this to be done without the feed parting from the feeder.
I didn't catch any tench (I think they were in spawning mood) but I did catch a couple of lively carp one of them bending the rod way past it's test curve.
What a super rod. It's a pity it's not still availabe.