Nash Scope Ops Brolly
The Nash Scope concept blew up three years ago and it’s only getting bigger with every passing month – particularly now seeing as they’ve just launched the first 100% carbon Scope rod…
Nash Tackle isn’t a company that stands still. They’re all about innovation, progression and forward-thinking, and when the Essex-based company launched their 2013’s blockbuster, The Scope concept, we all instantly knew it was the start of something very special – even for this company who created the Titan, the Indulgence range of bedchairs and the amazing Sleeping System. It was what we and many other publishing houses were calling ‘the ultimate in mobility for the focused, active carp angler.’
Since then, the concept and the range of products has grown into something even Nash couldn’t have forecast: Alan Blair and his Urban Banx shows are now more eagerly anticipated than Jesus’s birth; to go with those original miniature telescopic rods there’s now a pop-up bivvy, a teeny bedchair and even a dedicated clothing line. And just when you thought it couldn’t get any better, along comes the ‘Black Ops’ line of The Scope concept, namely the new teeny Brolly and all-carbon rods.
The Black Ops Rods are Nash’s leanest and meanest Scope rods yet. Whilst on the surface they retain all the performance advantages of any Scope rod – teeny when packed away, easier to use in confined or tree-overhung swims and lighter than traditional carp rods – this new line offers so much more. Constructed on a high-modulus, low-glare carbon blank which has been rolled from the highest grade Japanese Mitsubishi 40T carbon, they feature black super light SS Minima rings which not only increase casting distance but enhance blank sensitivity and transmission, and come finished with an F1-sapping-amount of carbon: 100% carbon line clip, 100% carbon backstop and the first, all-pure 100% carbon reel seat. They’re available in two lengths and three test curves: 9 and 10ft and 3, 3.5 and 4.5lb TC and prices start at £274.99.
Over the years, Nash has built some of the most innovative umbrellas and bivvies: the Titan and the Groundhog being two damn fine examples; in fact, it was the latter which Nash used as the basis for The Scope Ops Brolly, combining all of its market-leading features (the space-frame and four rib ground contact design) with a new and very clever folding rib system which results in a minute 44-inch pack-down length – the same as a 9ft Scope rod! It’s light too: both the brolly and bivvy sticks weigh just 4.9kg. Sports car-friendly. “GIMME”: £274.99; nashtackle.co.uk