Fishing Rods

GENESIS Offshore: Carbon Kevlar and Spiral Wrap

The GENESIS Offshore range is built on a Carbon Kevlar blank, combining the light, responsive feel of carbon with Kevlar's impact resistance. Most rods in the line carry an IGFA class rating to the International Game Fish Association's standards for tournament compliance and reliability, with the class marked directly in the rod's name. The deep drop-focused Blue Eye Bazooka shares the same Carbon Kevlar construction but isn't IGFA class rated, since it's built for recreational deep dropping rather than game fishing.

Spiral Wrap: One Rod, Two Reel Types

Several of these rods use spiral wrap guides, where the guides rotate around to the underside of the blank rather than running straight up the top. That does two genuine things: it eliminates the torque that causes rod twist under heavy load, and it means the same rod works with both spinning and overhead reels, so you can change setups on the fly rather than owning a separate rod for each. Because the rods have no fixed backbone, you don't need to worry about side loading or breakage the way you would on a straight-guide rod set up for the wrong reel type.

Jigging Rods

The jigging rod range runs a 25kg Class I Spiral Wrap, a 25kg Class I Straight Guide and a 15kg Class I Straight Guide, all on the same Carbon Kevlar blank. The 25kg Spiral Wrap in particular is a favourite among kingfish anglers, since the guide placement reduces line wrap on the tip during aggressive jigging, and the blank has the snap needed to work heavy jigs without it feeling like hard work.

Deep Drop Rods

The GENESIS Blue Eye Bazooka in the deep drop range is built for working 100 metres or more of water, the kind of depths anglers fish off Eden, Bermagui and Portland for blue-eye trevalla and bar cod, with a thick-walled carbon blank for lifting power without losing the sensitivity to feel a bite hundreds of metres down. It's fitted with a swivel tip and a heavy-duty aluminium bent butt, purpose-built for electric reels rather than a standard manual setup.

Trolling and IGFA-Rated Offshore Rods

The trolling rod range covers the IGFA Class I rods at 24kg, 15kg and 8kg, engineered for sustained pressure through long offshore fights. The reinforced carbon composite blank gives a progressive parabolic bend that absorbs shock and protects the line rather than fighting the fish in a straight line, and they're fitted with heavy-duty roller or Fuji guides and an aluminium reel seat built to handle a high-drag reel through a long run.

Lighter and Budget Options

Not every trip calls for IGFA-rated offshore gear. The Austackle Camo-stik is a 1.68m, 4-7kg baitcaster suited to estuary and jack work around structure, and the Fishing Superstore Ultra-light Carbon 1.8m rod gives a soft, finesse-friendly option for smaller species on light fishing reels. For anglers wanting rod and reel together in one purchase, the VEVOR IM6 Fiberglass & Carbon Fibre Spinning Rod and Reel Combo covers that without needing to match components separately.

The Most Common Mistake

The most common mistake in this category is buying rod power on rod length alone, without checking the class rating against the reel and line going on it. An IGFA 24kg blank paired with a reel and line rated well under that class won't let the rod do its job, and the reverse, a light rod pushed into 24kg-class work, is how blanks break. Match the class rating across rod, reel and line before you buy, not just the rod on its own.