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About Us - A message from Mick Bell founder of Bloke fly rods

Our rods are not designed around big advertising budgets and marketing hype. We produce extremely well designed rods from the best carbon fibre and components available. Our carbon fibre cloth is only available in limited quantities from Japan and as a result we are unable to manufacture more than 500 rods per annum. We sell direct because the wholesaler and retailer profit margins are greedy. This means that we can sell fly rods that are equal, if not better than any other high end mass producer but without the excessive price tags. Our rods have become the first choice for serious fly casters and I believe that actions speak louder than words. Enough said I think.

2006 CLA World saltwater fly casting championship. Won by Carl Hutchinson (126’) using a Bloke XL50 9’ 8wt
2006 BFCC 7wt record broken (136’) by Paul Arden using a Bloke XL50 9’ 7wt
2006 Gold medal Home International won by the English Ladies team at Lake Brenig using Bloke rods
2007 BFCC 7wt record broken (141’) by Mike Heritage using a Bloke XL50 9’ 7wt
2007 Irish Trout distance record won (142’) by Robert Gillespie using a Bloke XL50 9’ 8wt
2008 BFCC Senior (S60) record (123’) broken by Tony Bennett using a Bloke XL50 9’ 7wt
2011 World record fly caught Yellow fin tuna of 128lbs caught by Chris Cook at Christmas Island using a Bloke SLP 9’ 14wt