THE END OF AN ERA
Stanmer Park, Brighton a long, long time ago. Terry Carroll threw a bunch of test rods on the grass. “Here’s what they sent us,” he said. “I mean, just look. They’re supposed to be a leading rod company, but this is what they come up with. Useless. They’re nice people, but they just don’t get it.” Although he didn’t say it at the time, it was crystal clear that Terry knew that the only answer was to make his own rods. And after a series of ups and downs, strained alliances and false starts that’s exactly what he did when, in around 1980, he and his wife Barbara created Zziplex rod blanks.
These days we’ve grown almost immune to the hype dished out by the sea fishing world. Hardly anything prompts us to
