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Preston Innovations do not believe that compromise is the way forward when it comes to fishing rod design. The way we see it, combination rods never perform as well as dedicated, job-specific tools.

With this in mind, we set out to build a family of rods fit for the purpose. And with an angler of Tommy’s calibre and rod design knowledge on our team, how could we fail?

The result is the four brilliant ranges of float and feeder rods, namely the Super Sentient, Sentient, Carbonactive Mini and Dutch Master series.

Tommy, who became individual World Champion catching carp on the waggler in Bulgaria, takes up the story of how the rods went from drawing board dreams to what you can now pick up at your local Preston stockist…