AGS® | Guides

With the AGS guides (AGS= Air Guide System) DAIWA presents an innovation, which heralds a new era of rod construction technology. The AGS guides have a carbon fiber frame and therefore are considerably more lightweight as for instance a Fuji Titanium guide, which was, up to now one of the world’s most lightweight guides. The reduced weight optimizes the rod action - the rod gets essentially faster and resiles clearly faster. Additionally the use of carbon fiber framed guides reduces vibration of the guides during the cast – more precise casts are the consequence. Whoever takes a rod with AGS guides in the hand will realize immediately the dramatic difference to conventional guides and actions.

Thanks to AGS the tip resiles faster.

Compared to conventional guides the use of AGS guides results in a weight saving of up to 40%. This implies less strain for the blank and results in a clearly improved resilience.

The frame construction reduces the threat of tanglings. Especially at headwind and the use of braided lines the threat of losing lures due to tanglings at the guides is high. AGS guides enable an "escape" of the line at tanglings without knots or loss of the lure.

Comparison of the stiffness of carbon and titanium: Carbon features an approximately 3-fold stiffness compared to titanium and therefore is the ideal material for guide construction – the carbon frames of the AGS guide support the sensitivity of the blank like no other material.

NANOPLUS | Technology

At our Nanoplus technology the resin material first is enriched with a nanoalloy compound and then is used for connecting the single carbon fibers, thus enabling the design of very lightweight and robust blanks.

SVF® CARBON FIBER | Blank Material

Due to the further reduced resin share at the SVF carbon fiber, the resulting rods are even more sensitive and lighter then HVF carbon fiber rods. Blanks made of SVF carbon fiber are extremely fast and instantly transmit contact with the bottom or fishes and perfectly display the lure action. Torque during and after the casts is almost completely eliminated – contributing to more accurate casts. SVF carbon fiber also is exclusively processes in DAIWA rod factories.

X45® CARBON FIBER | Blank Wrapping

Special carbon fiber material for the improvement of the torsion-resistance. Conventional carbon fibers are always layered in a 90° angle – the new X45 material features a 45° angle and is combined with 0° and 90° layered carbon fibers. This construction makes the rods stronger and more distortion-proof.

Despite the increased distortion-proofness the flexibility is maintained. This implies that X45 rods are not only stronger and cast more precisely, but also support the angler at the presentation of delicate lures and at ending the fight with the fish safely.

V-JOINT® | Spigot Joint

V-Joint is a special spigot joint, where the spigot and the blank around the spigot are made of a special, exclusively for DAIWA made BIAS carbon fiber material. The carbon fibers follow a 45-degree angle. The consequence is higher strain resistance and an improved bending curve.