Wild Guide Magazine Fall 2017 | Page 41

wild guide: the load up Carrot Stix www.carrotstix.com What We Tested: Wild Wild Orange 7’0 Medium Heavy, Fast, Casting Wild Wild Black 7’0 Medium Light, Fast, Spinning Gen X Elite 7’0 Medium, Fast, Casting With a name as bold as their aesthetic, Carrot Stix makes no bones about calling themselves “the world’s most recognizable rod”. And they’re probably right. We’ve seen a lot of heads turn at the boat launch when we pull out a 7 foot rod wrapped tip to tip in the brightest blaze orange you can find outside of the bush during whitetail season. But underneath all of that flash is some pretty cool innovation that makes these rods more than just a pretty face. Carrot Stix get their name from the process they use to build their rod blanks; namely, their use of “nano-cellulose bio fibers” which,