Handle: Cork with large rubber butt knob (abbreviated handle available)
Reel Fitting: Fuji DPS up-screwing
Rings: Double legged Seymo 247S
Finish: Black, trimmed with gold
Extras: Keeper ring
Bag: Black cotton
£ 175.00 plus £ 10.00 post and packing (24hr delivery) from Peregrine
Peregrine Say Peregrine rods are built to exacting standards of craftsmanship. Our rods are not made to just cast a given line weight, we make them with specific angling situations in mind and select materials most suitable.
Each of our range is different, we do not use the same blank typethroughout we choose the best available for the particular rod and its’ intended use to ensure optimum performance. Our rods are different from the norm. They are made by a small team of fishing rod makers who know their stuff. Call us to discuss your requirements – you will be pleasantly surprised.
Custom built and individually numbered
Peregrine 4 piece Avon Rod 11′ The perfect travel rod or one for stashing in the car. The rod is just as at home tangling with Barbel as it is floater fishing for Carp or touch ledgering for Chub. Beautifully finished without a hint of a flat spot.
FishingMagic Verdict
Multi piece, or travel rods as they’re popularly known, haven’t become as popular with anglers as I suspected they would. It seems there aren’t as many anglers wanting to skive off work by stashing a travel rod in the car boot as I thought. But on a more serious note, I think the slow take-up of travel rods is mainly due to so many anglers still clinging to the notion that multi piece rods are too stiff and don’t have a smooth, stagger-free action.
That is a long way from the truth.
Nice touch – Line-up dots
If you wanted to be pedantic then it’s true that if you compared a one piece 11ft rod with a four piece 11ft rod, both having being produced to the same standard on the same mandrel, then you would detect a slight difference. But the difference is so slight as to be negligible.
This rod from Peregrine, built on one of the best blanks in the business from Harrison’s, is probably better than that.
I got a chance to try this rod a couple of times before the river season put up the shutters for three months. Unfortunately, I didn’t catch a barbel, but I did have a few chub and found the rod to be more than capable of landing them, and there most certainly won’t be a problem with most barbel in most swims. I would have no hesitation using 10lb line with the rod, and it is sensitive enough to allow a capable angler to use it with as light as 4 – 5lb when chub fishing.
Big rubber butt knob
The build of the rod is what you would expect from an experienced rod builder like Peregrine. The whippings are perfect, the fittings top class, the handle the right length and comfortable, and with a choice between full cork or abbreviated. The big rubber butt knob stands up to any ground, including rough gravel.
If you fancy a top quality four piece ‘Avon’ type rod that will catch most species and is capable of fishing most methods from float fishing to touch legering, then this rod from Peregrine will take some beating.
The price reflects what you pay for a custom built rod; exclusivity and attention to detail.
