Experience the ultimate fishing adventure with the Shimano Vortex Overhead Rod 6'10" 10-15kg + Shimano TLD 15 Lever Drag Reel combo, meticulously designed for performance and reliability in New Zealand's diverse fishing conditions. This versatile set is perfect for both seasoned anglers and beginners, offering the strength and sensitivity needed to tackle a variety of fishing scenarios.

The Shimano Vortex Rod series, developed by the team at Shimano Fishing NZ, is crafted to fit the unique Kiwi lifestyle. It features a robust Power-Carbon blank, engineered to withstand knocks and provide exceptional durability. An integrated glass tip ensures superior sensitivity, allowing you to feel every bite and movement from the moment a fish takes your bait. This design enhances overall performance, offering cost-effective capability for a wide range of traditional bait fishing techniques, including surfcasting, land-based rock fishing, and straylining. It is an ideal match for deploying baits into the benthos for species such as hapuku.

The Shimano TLD 15 Lever Drag Reel is an iconic New Zealand fishing reel, renowned as a bulletproof workhorse that performs flawlessly season after season. Its enduring popularity stems from its virtually indestructible nature and highly affordable, reliable operation. The foundation of the TLD's legendary durability is its one-piece, XT-7 graphite composite frame and side plates, which are incredibly lightweight, completely impervious to saltwater corrosion, and rigid enough to keep the internal stainless steel gears in perfect alignment under extreme heavy-drag loads. The incredibly smooth and easily adjustable lever drag system allows you to pre-set your strike drag and make instant, micro-adjustments during the heat of a fight without ever taking your hand off the handle. The TLD 15 is the go-to choice for anglers straylining for snapper, dropping baits for hapuku and blue cod, or trolling for kingfish and albacore.