Composite Developments

Composite Developments

With every new generation Composite Developments fly rod, you will receive The Complete Fly Fishing Manual written by John Giacon.

For more information, please contact michaela@cdrods.co.nz, or just purchase your very own new generation fly rod and this book will be yours!

View a range of products and pricing online at www.compositedevelopments.co.nz

• Rods including the award winning XLS series
• Blanks (spinnng rods)
• Waders and boots
• Vests, jackets, caps and polarised glasses
• Rod bags, rod tubes, tackle bags and wader bags

Note that Composite Developments cannot sell directly to New Zealand customers through its online shop for legal reasons.

Composite Developments rods and other CD products are stocked by many New Zealand sports shops including:

• Flyshop New Zealand online store
• Rod & Reel, Newmarket, Auckland
• Hamills Fishing & Hunting, Rotorua
• Absolutely Angling, Taupo
• Marlborough Hunting & Fishing New Zealand, Blenheim
• Hamills Fishing & Hunting, Nelson
• Flyshop, Methven

For a full list of New Zealand retailers stocking CD products, see the Composite Developments website.

The Composite Developments website lists:

• Australian retailers
• International agents who can advise by email where to buy CD products in the USA, Canada, Sweden, Spain, South Africa, Thailand and Russia.

The CD Pro Network is a group of twenty professional guides from all over New Zealand who regularly test potential new products, comment on current products and provide feedback to Composite Developments.

CD Pro Network guides include:

Craig Farrar

of Dream Trout

"The CDX Elite Jacket has proved perfect for those wet days on the river. When it's cold and miserable you need the best equipment to stay dry. The CDX Elite Jacket has exceeded expectations as a storm sure jacket when I really need it"

Steve Gerard

of FlyShop New Zealand

"I've personally used CDs fly rods ever since I've been guiding, that's 8 seasons now. CD rods are strong, light weight, well made, good-looking and of course cast very well and will handle the biggest of fish or punch a line with ease into a Nor Wester.... They produce award winning rods of exceptional quality and value for money."

Will Kemp

"The XLS has proved very popular with my clients.....It has plenty of power for stormy days and is a roll casting beast, great for tight bank."

Miles Rushmer

of Miles Rushmer Guiding

Ian Ruthven

of Absolutely Angling

Brett Cameron

of Central Plateau Fishing

Chris Dore

New Zealand Trout Safaris

Greg Dougherty

of Alpine Fishing Guides

Mike Kirkpatrick

of Latitude Guiding

Composite Developments sponsors the New Zealand fly fishing team, the Silver Flies which completes in Oceania and world fly fishing championships.

Silver Flies, 2009:
Winners of the 2009 Oceania Fly Fishing Championship

Silver Flies, 2008:
Silver medallists at the 2008 FIPS-MOUCHE World Fly Fishing Champs

The success of Composite Developments can be attributed to its passionate and highly educated workforce who all enjoy the great outdoors of New Zealand and know first hand what the products need to do and why. The creative and focused nature of the company also means that new and exciting products and technologies are constantly being developed.

In 2008 Composite Developments opened its own large purpose-built factory in China where they manufacture superior quality rods for both New Zealand and international markets. The Chinese operation is headed by Xin, CD's former New Zealand factory manager for five years.

Composite Developments is committed to its unique manufacturing technique utilising a helical of unidirectional graphite fibres. This creates a graphite core to maximise hoop strength, whilst adding minimal weight, and most of all maintaining blank sensitivity by not dampening the energy which flows along the blanks primary fibres.

Labelled G-HLX Technology (Graphite-HeLiX), the process was developed upon Composite Developments inception in 1981 by founder Marty Johanson and a team of American Composite technologists.

Sales and marketing

Adam Johanson

Email: adam@cdrods.co.nz

New Zealand sales

Cullum Penman, Dean Officer, Ricky Garth and Mike Ledbrooke

Phone: +64 9 415 9915
Fax: +64 9 415 9965

Street address

3 Piermark Drive
Albany Industrial Estate

Auckland

Postal address

PO Box 302 363
North Harbour Mail Centre
Auckland