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Daiwa: "Never seen anything like it"

by DAIWA 17 Jul 2024 16:12 UTC

Never Seen Anything Like It Rod

DAIWAs new ARDITO travel rod series includes a premium telescoping model that morphs into its own case and fits in your backpack or briefcase. 

Bass fishing for a 10-pounder in Mexico. Floatplane only access to remote walleye and smallmouth lakes in Canadian glacial shield lakes. Big trout that seldom see a lure on hike-in-only Alpine mountain lakes. And thats just the first page of your bucket list...

In concert, DAIWA has rewritten what it means to be a destination angler with its new ARDITO travel rod series. The first-of-its-kind assortment includes featured-filled telescoping and multi-piece spinning and casting rods you can take on planes, trains, and automobiles, as well as bikes, motorcycles, UTVs, and golf carts although we dont endorse sneaking onto golf courses to fishwink, wink

ARDITO Jitte spinning (guides and sections collapsed)

ARDITO Jitte spinning (fully collapsed and self-contained)

Of special note are the new ARDITO Jitte casting and spinning rods, with a self-contained telescoping rod design concept that will have most anglers saying, Ive never seen anything like it.

The groundbreaking design of the ARDITO travel rod is how the 67ARD67B-TR casting and ARD67S-TR spinning rods each with a full train of eight guides can telescope into themselves with the handle used to make it completely protected and self-contained. Collapsed and contained, its like holding a baton.

Since first touch, DAIWAs staff has been coming up with new locations and ways to travel with the ARDITO Jitte telescoping travel rods. 

ARDITO Jitte casting (guides and sections collapsed)

ARDITO Jitte spinning (fully collapsed and self-contained)

In our discussions with product development, sales, and marketing staff about the Jitte rod introduction at ICAST, our talks always drifted into unique ways and where these rods would be ideal to use, said DAIWAs Field Marketing Specialist Chris Martin. Those ideas went everywhere from packing them in your Harley saddlebags for a ride to Sturgis and chasing northern pike, yellow perch and crappie in Bear Butte Lake its a short 8 miles from DAIWA headquarters to that lake or creek you keep seeing on your business travels and daydream about. Now, you have legitimate, packable rod thatll put you on the water after a long day of meetings.

Always being on the road with my role at DAIWA means Im traveling to fishing shows, events, and dealer meetings, and its a complete hassle to take a rod tube along, continued Martin. You can bet Ill have an ARDITO Jitte rod, or two, at my side in the future. Martin reminds ARDITO Jitte travel rod users not to forget your reels and lures!

The telescoping ARDITO Jitte ARD6106TLFS-TR spinning travel rod is a medium-power, fast action and designed for 1/16- to 3/8-oz lures and 3- to 10-lb line. The telescoping ARDITO Jitte ARD6106TMFB-TR casting travel rod is medium-power, fast action and designed for 3/16- to 5/8-oz lures and 7- to 16-lb line.

MSRP $199.99

 

Jitte might be the flagship ARDITO travel rod, but theres an entire series behind it. DAIWAs technology and construction features are evident throughout the ARDITO telescoping and multi-piece family, making them the new standard in travel rod design and performance.

The 68 ARD684MLSF-TR ARDITO Premium Travel Rod is a medium-light, 4-piece spinning rod for use with 5- to 12-pound test with a split-grip cork handle. Theres a full cork handle on the 610 ARD6104MHFB-TR medium-heavy casting rod, which is rated for up 20-pound test to tackle big bass and more.

Feels like youre fishing a one-piece due to DAIWAs V-Joint technology, said Martin. By wrapping the rod blanks carbon material at 45-degrees around the connecting ferrules, we eliminated any flat or dead spots in the rod. You wont know its a four-piece rod.

The four-piece ARDITO travel rods also feature DAIWAs HVF Nano plus carbon blank material for lightness and sensitivity, along with DAIWAs X-45 Bias construction process to prevent blank twisting, while adding further sensitivity and durability. Both models sport high-quality Fuji Alconite guides and come standard with a sturdy yet pliable, semi-hard travel case.

The 6 10 four-piece ARDITO ARD6104MHFB-TR travel rod is a medium-heavy, fast action rod designed for ¼- to ¾-ounce lures and 8- 20-lb line. The 6 8 spinning version (RD684MLFS-TR) is a medium-light, fast action rod designed for 1/8- to ½-ounce lures and 5- to 12-pound line.

MSRP $249.99

 

With the ARDITO Premium Telescoping Travel Rods both a 610 casting and spinning model DAIWA again employs its V-Joint flexing ferrule joint system to make it fish like a traditional one-piece rod.

Anglers will be shaking their heads that these are telescoping rods that fish like one-piece rods, stated Martin. Both rated to handle lures up to 5/8-ounce and for use with 7- to 16-pound test line, depending on your preference for casting or spinning, you can target everything from panfish, trout and crappies, to walleyes, bass, pike.

The super-compact ARDITO Premium telescoping rods feature a full cork handle, O-ring guides, and come with a softshell structures travel case.

The 6 10 ARD6106TMFB-TR ARDITO (casting) Premium Telescoping Rod is medium-power, fast action and rated for 3/16- to 5/8-ounce lures and 7- to 16-lb line, and features Fuji O-Ring Guides. The 6 10 ARD6106TLFS-TR ARDITO (spinning) Premium Telescoping Rod is light-power, fast action and rated for 3/16- to 5/8-ounce lures and 7- to 16-lb line, and features Fuji O-Ring Guides. 

MSRP $199.99

For Daiwas latest color catalog and/or information on Daiwa dealers in your area, call Daiwas Customer Service Department at 562-375-6800 or e-mail inquiries to: CSR@Daiwa.com. The URL for Daiwas web site is daiwa.us

 
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