Gardner GTC Continental Fishing Rod<Carp Rods

Since its conception in 1980, Gardner Tackle has been committed continually striving to beat its personal goals year on year, season on season to provide the best tackle for anglers. It is a company that understands that nature never remains constant and that fish are always learning, so a tackle company must constantly develop innovative new products in order to keep one step ahead.

Gardner has earned itself a reputation for being innovators of quality tackle in the UK, focusing largely on carp fishing. Gardner is continually raising the bar for top quality terminal tackle, and its standard is one that the industry is forced to match time on time.

This GTC Continental Rod is quite simply the perfect carp rod as it has a wealth of impressive features to benefit your performance when at the bank. The GTC is incredibly lightweight, yet powerful with a 3.25lb test curve, giving flexibility to those more stubborn carp that like a fight once hooked.

The rod is 10-foot-long, giving an ideal casting range of fishing the middle scrum and alternatively for the shallow, shady areas carp love in the sunny climate. This amazingly versatile rod is equally at home being used by anglers casting rigs as those placing rigs and playing big fish from a boat, making the GTC by far one of the best 10ft carp rods on the market.

It is a rod with a medium action that gives a lovely crisp responsive feel performance thanks to its lightweight blanks made from carbon. The rod includes an exclusive blank that is made from 36-ton Mitsubishi carbon fibre, on low resin prepreg blanks, making it immensely strong and flexible when you test out the curve. The Continental has a wonderful steely action, that offers an immense amount of feedback and control, whether you are casting lead with ease and accuracy or playing a fish.

The GTC also features a 3K carbon fibre machined DPS reel seat to match the rods with a 3k tweel or finish, which the Continental has just above the overfit joint. This adds strength to where a lot of pressure from the reel would be, making casting out and winding in a smooth process. To help, the rod features a line friendly, low profile carbon line clip that is whipped in position to assist bite indication.

The strength does not end here as the GTC also provides a set of super lightweight Minima guides which are combined with a conventional anti-frap tip ring, protecting your line from common snags. This also allows for a faster and more responsive tip action, making the GTC a medium-fast action rod with accurate casting without being unforgiving or overly stiff. The rod also includes a full slimline EVA handle, which is much lighter than cork and the wide SS butt cap adds control to your grip.

The whole rod is finished with full hi-gloss which helps to protect all components and maintains the rods excellent looks and performance. The GTC certainly features a clutter-free, tidy build specification that provides a progressive application of power, so it suits a myriad of angling scenarios.

The GTC Continental will be something offer carp anglers are sure to envy when using it at the bank.