Korda TK Hoodie
This is based on a classic hoodie design but has been tweaked to make it even more functional for fishing.
It fits close enough to your body to provide plenty of warmth and help prevent draughts, but the raglan shoulders and stretchy underarm panels give it an ‘action fit’ so that your movement isn’t inhibited whilst wearing it.
It is made from 320gsm fleece jersey material, so feels very cosy against your skin.
The hood has a snug, crossover fit, to help keep out the cold and keep your neck warm, and it can be adjusted via two drawcord loops at the front – designed so that they are easy to adjust but won’t dangle down when you’re photographing a fish!
The sleeves have thumb holes, so that you can pull them down over the back of your hands in really cold conditions.
The large ‘kangaroo pouch’ pocket on.
The front also features two internal upright pockets to securely store items such as your phone, car keys or sounder box.
Key features
Classic hoodie
Warm and functional
Fleece jersey material
Thumb holes
Internal front pockets
Since featuring on the Korda Underwater series filmed at Norton Disney, the buzz around these Shot on the Hook weights has been immense and there’s been a massive resurgence around the use of this rig since the film was launched.
The Shot on the Hook improves the hooking potential of any wafter, bottom bait or snowman rig, essentially creating a heavier point to enable the hook to grab hold, ensuring quick and efficient hook holds, turning more pick-ups in to bites.
These hook attachments are created from pure tungsten, which provides an exceptional density-to-volume ratio. This high density, pure tungsten allowed us to achieve substantial weight while using minimal material, creating a compact yet appropriately weighted Shot on the Hook.
This reusable pure tungsten shot can be used over and over. It features a small rubber moulding that fits over the hook point to secure your shot in place. When it's time to switch hooks, simply slide it off if you're using barbless hooks, or if you're using barbed hooks, crush the barb first before removing.
Danny Fairbrass “Nothing in recent years has made more difference to my bottom bait catch rate. I wanted to rush it out, but Damian and the product team out voted me to make something ‘special’. I’m very pleased to be overruled on this occasion as the end result is an easy to use and re use product that suits any kind of bottom bait or wafter rig, from plastic corn on a size 8 to a 24mm boilie on a size 2.”
The Shot on the Hook comes in three sizes; 0.30g, 0.40g and 0.50g and are supplied in a convenient slide top storage compartment to keep them safe and secure in your tackle box, with ten shot per packet.
DF's Insight: I would personally recommend the small 0.3g version for hook sizes 8, 6 and 4 with small baits up to 14mm. For slightly bigger baits of around 16-18mm and hook sizes 6, 4 and 2 my choice would the 0.4g Shot on the Hook.
For those anglers using larger hooks and big baits of 20 and 24mm diameter we’ve got the 0.5g version. The idea is that the lighter the bait the less force the carp will use to suck them in. Using the lighter shot will give it more opportunity to get in the fish's mouth.
Korda Stow Complete MKII Bobbin
These feature a complete Stow Indicator set-up with all the bits that you need, barring an isotope.
These are based on the handmade Elstow bobbins which have achieved cult status, keeping all of the best bits which made them so popular, and also adding some improvements.
The Stow Indicator can be fished with either a slack or a tight line, and when you get a take it will unclip itself from the line as it hits your alarm.
It can be used with any type of bite alarm using the magnetic hockey stick attachment with is supplied, and two different lengths of stainless steel chain are supplied so that you can ensure it works properly and always pings free of your line when required to do so.
The clip will hold your line securely without causing any damage to it, and the body is extremely lightweight and very sensitive to any movement of the line.
Additional weights are available in either 6g or 8g sizes, and neatly fit onto the body without making it any longer.
Spare heads in different colours, plus spare hockey sticks are also available.Key features
Based on the famous Elstow bobbins
Can be used with slack or tight lines
Stainless steel chain
Line-friendly clip
Complete bobbin
Korda LongChuck Clear
The new Long Chuck main line has been designed specifically for fishing at long range and will add extra yards to your cast compared to a standard mono.
It is ultra-low stretch to enable quicker compression of the rod blank, and alongside the fact that it has very low water absorption, it also helps when trying to feel the lead down at range or in a cross wind.
That low water absorption also helps ensure that the line stays lightweight and stays in the air for longer, thus helping to lower the drag on the lead during flight, but the biggest factor in achieving that is the fact that the line is clear – adding a dye to a mono line increases the weight, as well as altering the molecular structure and creating more stretch, all of which means that coloured lines won’t cast as far.
Long Chuck also features a high breaking strain to diameter ratio, which significantly reduces both the drag and the weight of the line.
Key features
Designed specifically for fishing at long range
Ultra-low stretch
Very low water absorption
Clear mono line
High breaking strain to diameter ratio
Korda Ready Zigs
These ready-tied zig rigs are incredibly convenient and have been tied to exacting standards, so that they are as good as anything that you can tie yourself!
These Ready Zigs are great for anyone who is new to zig fishing, or for people who prefer the convenience of just being able to unwind the correct length of zig from the EVA spool which they come supplied on, and then wind it back on at the end of the session if the hook is still sharp.
There are four different lengths available to cover different situation – 12ft, 10ft, 8ft, and 6ft – and all are tied using a size 10 Mixa hook to 8lb line, with a loop at the other end for each attachment to a QC Swivel or similar.
Each Spool contains three zig rigs
Each EVA spool also comes with three different coloured foam hook baits
Kaizen high-performance monofilament delivers exceptional versatility in a mainline, expertly balancing distance casting capability with superior abrasion resistance. Its supple composition and minimal stretch ensure reliable performance even in the most demanding conditions.
Manufactured from premium Japanese polymers, Kaizen delivers exceptional strength and abrasion resistance across all fishing scenarios, from close-range work directly beneath your rod tips to extreme long-distance casting.
Kaizen’s ultra-low stretch properties enhance its sensitivity, allowing you to feel the lead down even at extreme range. It has an impressive breaking strain to diameter ratio too, which minimises drag during the cast, while the abrasion-resistant construction will withstand contact with snaggy features without compromising the line’s integrity.
Available in two colours, green and brown and in five breaking strains:
0.30mm/12lb
0.35mm/15lb
0.38mm/18lb
0.40mm/20lb
0.43mm/24lb
All spools have line markers every 250m to help when spooling up.
Korda Kaizen Green Rod
The Kaizen Green Journey Explained
Following on from the hugely successful launch of our first rods under the Kaizen banner, we’ve followed that up with a more affordable, yet still high performance, range called Kaizen Green.
The Kaizen Green sits below the flagship Kaizen Platinum rods, but still shares many of the same attributes and design features which set those rods apart, but at a much more affordable price.
Our first foray into the rod market was a huge success, but we also realised that not all anglers can afford a set of Platinums, or possibly they don’t need that level of performance and aren’t fishing often enough to justify the price tag, so we got to work on a model that will still do everything that you require it to, apart from maybe in the most extreme situations and which is priced at a level which makes the Kaizen Green available to anybody.
The actions of the various models in the Kaizen Green range are almost identical to those of the corresponding Platinum models, with the main difference being that they are built using a more affordable grade of carbon.
The main difference performance-wise is that they won’t transfer power into the cast to quite the same degree; won’t recover quite so quickly after the cast; and are slightly more susceptible to the blank twisting during casting, which will marginally reduce accuracy.
But for many anglers and unless pushing the rods to the extreme, you won’t even notice the difference.
The full range of Kaizen Green rods – which includes eight different models of fishing rods plus two spod rods – has been extensively tested on a wide variety of different venues and in different angling situations, both at home and abroad, and from the bank as well as fishing with boats, and has involved many of the Team Korda anglers using the rods and providing feedback on them, in order to get them just right.
The fact that these anglers have been more than happy to use them for much of their own fishing, despite having access to the more expensive Platinum models, also says a lot about just how good the Kaizen Green range is.
For the Kaizen Green, we’ve used a similar fast-tapered profile mandrel to that which the Platinum range is made on.
This gives a taper that consistently goes all the way from butt to tip, and produces a very ‘tippy’ action, with most of the flex being at that end of the rod until it comes under more extreme loading, such as when casting.
This action improves power transfer during casting and will enable you to cast further when you utilise the very fast tip speeds which this helps to create.
It also allows for faster line pick up, which can be a big advantage, but also has enough give in the tip that the rod will absorb the lunges of a fish at close quarters without fear of pulling the hook due to the rod being too unforgiving – even in the hands of a relative novice carp angler, the Kaizen Green rods will still be a pleasure to play fish on, whatever type of water you are fishing.
Due to popular demand from anglers fishing on big European lakes where rigs are dropped, and fish are played, from a boat; as well as in the UK where people are fishing on waters where there is no need to cast any distance; or even for younger anglers who struggle with a 12ft or 13ft rod, we have introduced our first ever 10ft rods, with three different test curves to choose from, and which will cover any situation you can think of where a shorter rod is advantageous.
To complement the fishing rods, we have also designed Kaizen Green spod rods in a choice of 12ft or 13ft, both of which are capable of hurling even the largest Spombs and spods – weighing up to 8oz - a very long way, and certainly as far as you can cast a baited rig with the fishing rods.
Whilst the main reason for buying a rod should be its performance, as carp anglers we also spend a lot of time looking at our rods motionless on the rests, and so it is important that they look good cosmetically, as long as that ideally also enhances performance, and certainly doesn’t detract from it.
All of the 12ft and 13ft models feature 50mm butt rings and a 16mm tip ring, whilst the 10ft model has a 40mm butt ring and 12mm tip guide.
The guides chosen are the Sea-Guide TDG twin leg/foot stainless steel ones, which are lightweight whilst also being very strong and durable.
These features a special ADAMAN coating which is ten times tougher than stainless steel and which ensures smoother line passage across it, as well as improved abrasion resistance.
In Europe, the 10ft models are also available with Sea-Guide BXTLSG guides, which feature a ceramic insert that is even more abrasion resistant and suitable for use with heavier braided lines being constantly run across it under extreme tension, whilst still feeling smooth to the angler, as well as being a little less susceptible to being damaged when they are bounced around in when laid in a boat as you motor to or from your spot.
Cosmetically, the Kaizen Green range has a custom built, minimalist look, with a low glare, matt finish to the blank, black whippings and just a subtle green logo.
The handle is covered in black Japanese shrink wrap and with a flared end to it, which offers better grip during casting and allows you to confidently pull the rod through with maximum force without fear of your hands slipping.
That is finished with an injection moulded butt clap featuring a green Korda logo.
Your reel is attached via a top quality Sea-Guide DPS style reel seat.
Danny Fairbrass is very proud of what has been achieved with the Kaizen Green rod range, enthusing: “We knew that not everyone could afford to spend £1,300+ on a set of rods, so we wanted to make something more affordable but which still had almost identical performance.
You could pick a Kaizen Green up and think it was a 300 or 400 quid rod, they’re that good.”
“The main difference you’ll find between the Green and the Kaizen Platinum is the modulus of carbon that is used – the Green has a lower modulus carbon so you need more of it to create the same strength.
This makes the blank slightly heavier and ever so slightly slower in terms of the recovery after casting, but the action of them is almost identical.”
“These rods make long range fishing, and very accurate fishing, more available to more people, because it’s at such an affordable price.
I like rods to be as minimal as possible so they look custom built, and there aren’t any garish bits of colour or stainless all over them, they are really toned down.
They’re the same rings as on the Platinum, but a three-legged version, which is more durable and forgiving.”
“We’ve done 10-footers for the first time and I’ve been using those quite a bit, for dropping rigs from a boat on some really big lakes out in Europe.
I really like them, having not used 10-footers before, as they have a shorter handle and are really good for manoeuvring around on the boat, and you can get the fish closer to the boat as they’re shorter, and they’re nicer for dropping a lead over the side.”
“The 12-footers are probably going to be the most popular and I’ve used the 12ft 3.5lb and 12ft 4lb in testing and have caught loads of nice fish on them.
They’ve got a great battle curve, a really fast recovery, they cast brilliantly, and they’re still very light in your hands.
The taper means that you’ve still got that forgiving tip but the power is there to cast a long way.”
“With the whole of the Kaizen Green range, we’ve tried to bring you the highest performance products at the most affordable prices, that pretty much anyone who goes carp fishing, can afford to have a set of rods plus a spod rod.
I’m extremely proud of what we have achieved and think that they’ve taken rods in that price range ahead by years, and you’re going to be absolutely blown away.”
Korda Stik Klips
PVA sticks are a great way of presenting your hookbait amongst a small patch of attraction, as well as ensuring your rig isn’t tangled - and are a favourite of Danny Fairbrass.
The Stik Klip makes this style of fishing very quick and easy, as detaching, adding a PVA stick, and reattaching your hook link can be done in a matter of seconds.
It is suggested that a silicon sleeve or Anti Tangle Sleeve is used to cover the Stik Klip for a neater presentation.
Available in small and medium sizes, with 20 to a pack.Key features
Designed for use with PVA sticks
Quick and easy to attach your hook link
Two sizes available
Korda Loop Krank Rigs
These ready-tied hook link sections are designed to be used in conjunction with our Booms Loop pre-tied booms, or you can tie your own if you prefer.
When the two are tied together they form the perfect combi-rig – simply attach the Loops Krank to the Booms Loop, loop-to-loop style and you are ready to go, and can quickly change the hook section should you need to.
The Loops Krank is tied using a semi-stiff 18lb breaking strain braid, with a simple knotless knot on a Krank hook.Key features
Ready tied hook sections
Use in conjunction with Booms Loop
Form the perfect combi-rig
Krank hook
Three per pack
Korda Mini Krimp Tool
Crimping is a great way to achieve neat, strong connections, especially when you are using stiffer and/or thicker materials which can be hard to knot effectively – plus it allows you to get the hook link length right every time, which is especially useful for chod rigs.
Getting it just right though when you do crimp something, so that it won’t slip or weaken the material, is always a concern, but this Mini Krimp Tool alleviates that issue as it is purposely designed for use with the three sizes of Krimp that we sell – the jaws are marked with XS, S and L to denote the slot that should be used for each size.
As long as the Krimps are matched to an appropriate diameter of hook link material, the Mini Krimp Tool will allow you to create the perfect connection every time.
It is made from mild steel with rubberised handles to allow you to get a good grip and ensure the right amount of pressure is applied to a Krimp, plus it features a line cutter in its jaws which is useful when constructing rigs.
The Mini Krimp Tool is very compact so will easily fit into your Tackle Box or similar, but still allows you to get enough leverage to form the perfect crimped connection every time.
Key features
For crimping rigs
Stainless steel with rubberised handles
Also features a line cutter
Compatible with all krimp sizes
Korda Pulla Tool
The Pulla Tool has a number of uses, with bedding down knots being the most popular way of using it.
The T-shaped design makes it very easy to grip firmly and to be able to apply enough pressure to bed down knots even on thicker, stiffer hook link materials, as well as being very useful for steaming hook links straight – especially when two are used, one at each end of the hook link.
The Pulla Tool features a very strong, 2mm diameter, stainless steel hook, which will fit through the eye of a size 8 Swivel.Key features
Bed down knots
Easy to grip
Fits through a size 8 swivel
Use two to straighten hook links
Korda Jersey Shorts Olive
The Kore Jersey Shorts are designed to be stylish and functional, both on the bank and when you are wearing them casually.
They fit fairly close to your body, but without being tight and come all the way down to your knees.
They are made from a loop-back poly cotton jersey material which feels really nice to wear and stays cool even during hot and humid weather, as it has a tendency to draw moisture away from your skin.
These shorts have three pockets – a zipped, taped pocket on each side, plus an open pocket at the back. Key features
Stylish and functional
Poly cotton jersey material
Come down to your knees
Three pockets
