The manufacturer says –
The rod is over 5ft in length and has been specifically designed for our company. Includes fully lined guides and improved reel seat.
Now this is a proper fishing rod and reel combo, where the biggest fish caught to date is an unbelievable 18lb CARP. Grandeslam UK will be running a 2010 pocket rocket pro competition to try and break the current world record (date to be announced) and anyone who purchases this rod and reel combo will be invited to fish the match, with some great prizes and cash up for grabs !!!!!!.
This 5 foot rod comes in the shape of an 8inch pen, take the tip of and you have a superb ultra slim ultra strong lightweight rod and the mini reel is just a masterpiece and a pleasure to use. Comes with 4lb top quality line included.
A waggler rig is also included so you’re ready to fish. Customers who purchase the pocket rocket pro combo who wish to fish the competition will just fill in the form that comes inside the packaging and post it to Grandeslam Head office who will invite the owner to fish the competition when the official date is announced.
A Des Taylor instructional DVD and waggler rig complete the package. This combo has already started angling forums up and down the country buzzing with excitement about what this rod and reel can do!!! Well don’t miss the chance to be one of the first to try them out and see what all the fuss is about!!! Get one today and have some real fun fishing again you will be amazed.
BEWARE OF CHEAP IMMITATIONS – This combo is a quality rod and reel engineered to the highest quality. If it’s not Grandeslam’s DES TAYLOR PEN POCKET ROCKET PRO, DONT BUY IT! This comes with Grandeslam’s top quality guarantee, buy with confidence today.
RRP £29.99
The reviewer says –
You probably think these rods are a joke and what’s FM doing promoting them or even having anything to do with them in the first place. You’re having a laugh, surely?
Fact is, they’re NOT a joke, the Pocket Rocket is a serious rod and, if I’m not mistaken, is long enough to be fished under international match rules (min. 1½metres or thereabouts, isn’t it?) It is just like a very short wand designed for float fishing, but no reason why it can’t be used for legering, albeit without the quiver. The top is so soft anyway even that shouldn’t be a problem.
It is insane, it is mad! That’s the only way I can think of describing it, the fact that you can take this rod out of the side pocket of your tackle bag, extend it, attach the reel and be SERIOUSLY fishing for sizeable specimens. YES, sizeable! Like it says, the heaviest caught so far is an 18lbs carp, so why not big chub, tench or barbel?
To test the Pocket Rocket I took it to our club’s water with my friend, Colin, who’s not supposed to fish yet as he’s recovering from a recent operation. I rigged it up using the line provided on the excellent little reel, but instead of the rig provided with the kit (it would catch a fish, no doubt), I used a larger splasher waggler and rigged a pellet band and hook to get some distance. This was set to around 18” depth, the idea being to cast out with a pellet and catapult 3-4 loose pellets around the float every 20 seconds or so.
A few factors were going against us; it was a windy day, it was raining, it was colder than it had been, and even the new small pasty carp weren’t playing all that well. A lot of the bigger carp in the 6-10lbs range have been netted and moved on, apparently. We soon discovered that with the wind blowing the line around on the surface it was hard to hit the bites, had we tried to sink the line we’d have reduced the distance and missed the fish completely.
If anything, this is the rod’s downfall, you can’t lift that much slack line with a very short rod and that rule applies to ANY rod below 6 ft., but we had been casting well over 25 yards with it! So we started fishing the margins close in with the bait on the bottom and this eventually worked. By constant feeding by the side of some lily pads we managed to encourage a few strays to take the bait.
By this time, Colin had forgotten all about his enforced abstinence from fishing and took the rod from me. I was left fishing a margin pole a little further out. By the end of the day, we had taken only a few fish on the kit, but enough to judge the rod and reel though.
It feels different because it is so soft and forgiving, unlike most carbon rods; I think we forget how soft, though strong, fibre glass is, which this rod is made of.
The small carp we were catching were easy enough to handle on the rod, but we have found that often they fight like fury and pretend to be a 4lber rather than a 1lber. The reel’s drag worked perfectly, it is a real reel, not a joke and it’s not going to fall apart either.
It might have been the luck of the draw or the fact that we’d put more bait into the margin swim Colin was fishing, but the Pocket Rocket out-fished my pole at the end of the day; in fact – I blanked on the pole.
I don’t suppose for one minute that every angler is going to rush out and buy one of these miniature rod and reel kits and they’re certainly not going to take their place in the big specimen or match scene, but I don’t think that is the point. They are simply fun to use, that’s it, and for £30 are well worth the spend.
I’m certainly going to take it with me again and use it – seriously! Let them all laugh if they so wish, it will be me having the fun!
(P.S.: Colin can buy his own!)
