Prodigy Plus Carp

Slimmer, lighter and now more powerful
Exclusive CAD soft touch reel seat
designed for the new Prodigy Plus

get your hands on this!

Prodigy Carp rods already have a serious reputation.
It’s an enviable reputation built on quality, performance and great value for money. In fact the Prodigy offers a package that you would normally expect to find with rods costing twice as much. Now for 2008 is the new Prodigy Plus.
Slimer, lighter and more powerful than the original, there’s a cross-weave carbon butt section for controlled casting power - the 3lb+ models have supreme casting potential and have recorded genuine distances of 200m.  
A common feature of all models is the fast tip recovery and excellent fish
playing actions that inspire confidence at close range.
Fitted with an exclusive CAD soft touch 18mm reel seat, which accepts both standard and bit pit reels, the Prodigy Plus also comes with a Worldwide Extended Warranty. What more could you want from a carp rod in this price bracket?

To complement the range their is also a 50mm butt guide option.
The new Prodigy Plus really gets the job done.

GREYS
No one else could beat
The Greys x-flite.
So we did.

The X-Flite+50 is even lighter, more beautiful and more powerful than its predecessor, the current Rod of the Year,
the X-Flite. With a 50mm butt guide, the X-Flite+50 is ideal for big pit reels, heavy shock leaders and long distance PVA bags and stringer work. So if you really want to improve performance, use your grey matter. We do.

Designed and developed in Alnwick
Research &
Development

There are many reasons for the success of Greys rods, but the central one is found well away from the hustle and bustle of the factory floor. Upstairs, in comparative calm, is a brand-new, one off, research laboratory.
Over the last two years Hardy Greys Ltd have made significant investments in research, design and development facilities. These now form the core of HAC (Hardy Advanced Composites) technology.
HAC is the research and development division of Hardy Greys Ltd. Amongst other things, they design and manufacture composite tubes for the military and aerospace sectors. They do this as well as producing specific carbon fibre rod blank designs for the angler.

In one recent project, HAC has been involved in helping to develop the NLAW (Next Generation Light Anti-Tank Weapon). HAC is part of the NLAW design system team, which includes SAAB Bofors Technology and Thales Air Defence Systems.
The NLAW combat weapon is an anti-tank missile sealed within a disposable launch tube. Although the main targets are Tanks and Light Armoured Fighting Vehicles, other targets can also be engaged, and defeated. That’s something to consider when you next cast using one of our rods!

The picture above shows Marc Coulson, the editor of Total Carp, watching a 2nd generation, prototype blank being put through its paces. What the picture does not show is all the data that is being captured from a high resolution camera. All the forces and angles are also recorded in order to determine whether the prototype is performing as per the original designs.
Finally the rods are tested and put their paces in ‘real world’ fishing and casting situations. This product development ‘loop’ continues until all parties are happy with the tests results and performance, it is then and only then that the rod is put into production.

On the fishing side, the company has invested heavily in the development of a state-of-the-art computer simulation system known as the Hardy Rod Simulator (HRS). This system was developed in-house by research and development engineer Colin Skene. This was done in conjunction with a number of European research establishments. The result has been to bring revolutionary ideas to composite technology, far beyond any of our competitors.
The rod simulator uses a Finite Element Analysis (FEA) system, which plays an important part in the science of our rod building. This system allows us to experiment with the latest materials, simulate their actions and work out their impact on new rod design before any blanks are built.
As a result, Hardy Greys rods are engineered to perfection and designed to last for life. Alongside the simulator, the new Hardy test rig facility accurately measures rod profiles and durability, under different stresses and conditions. This allows us to test blanks under an infinite number of conditions, before we even make a test sample!
This ability to analyse stress points in new designs means rods in development can be fine-tuned to give the optimum balance of lightness, strength, and performance. A major advantage of the simulator is that our designers are not constrained by the mandrels and materials we might have in stock, they can experiment with virtually anything.
Any mandrel geometry and any material can be simulated by the HRS allowing a previously unknown flexibility in the design and prototype phase of Hardy Greys rods. The Hardy Greys team have invested time, expertise and sheer brilliance to create a unique rod-making facility.

The result is excellence, every time.

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