01The first platform
V-73 Series
A better standard for telescopic fishing.
The V-73 Series is a family of premium 7'3" telescopic travel rods from Ventra Fishing, engineered around an ultra-compact collapsed architecture. The telescopic construction is not incidental — it is the reason the platform exists.
One proposition across the family: 7'3" fishing capability, telescopic portability, serious performance.
02Why telescopic
The best rod is the one you have with you.
A conventional fishing rod performs brilliantly when you have planned to go fishing. But some of the best opportunities are not planned.
A river discovered while travelling. An hour beside a harbour. A lake on a family trip. A rod kept permanently in the car, the campervan or the backpack.
That is where telescopic architecture becomes compelling. Collapse a capable 7'3" rod to around 40–43 cm and it stops being something that has to be specifically packed for a fishing trip. It can simply come with you.
03The challenge
Telescopic shouldn't mean second best.
Telescopic rods have traditionally sat at the inexpensive end of the market: excessive weight, poor balance, crude actions, low-quality fittings and inconsistent guide alignment. Convenience, bought with compromise.
Making a rod collapse is relatively easy. Making a telescopic rod that serious anglers genuinely want to fish with is much harder — and that is the problem the V-73 platform answers.
Our objective is to progressively engineer out those compromises: action, balance, weight, guide architecture, component quality, sensitivity, durability and overall fishing feel.
Not a telescopic rod that is good enough for travelling — a genuinely good fishing rod that also happens to collapse small enough to travel almost anywhere.
The first model
V-73 L
Light / 7'3" / Telescopic / 5–25 g
The V-73 L is the first expression of that philosophy: a 7'3" Light-power telescopic travel rod combining extreme portability with the feel, balance and fishing performance expected from serious spinning equipment.
No more than approximately 43 cm collapsed. 5–25 g lure capability. Freshwater and saltwater.
Ventra range
01Power
Light
02Extended
7'3" / 2.21 m
03Lure rating
5–25 g
04Collapsed
≤43 cm
04Blank
One curve, then collapsed
The profile is drawn first as a single-piece rod. Only then is it resolved into telescopic sections, with the interfaces placed where the bend is least disturbed rather than at even intervals.
Each section wall is laid to carry the seat of the one above it, so load runs through the stack instead of stopping at it. A telescopic blank that loads and recovers like a good two-piece.
05Hardware
Guides, seat and grip
Guide architecture is where most telescopic rods give themselves away. Ours is designed for smooth line flow, controlled casting and reliable performance throughout the blank.
A compact reel-seat system designed to give a positive, dependable connection between rod and reel, with a grip shaped for a wet hand and balanced against a 2500–3000 size reel.
Construction
Telescopic engineering, up close
Section interfaces, carbon wall, guide alignment and hardware, up close.
01Light in the hand. Built for control.
A responsive carbon blank designed to deliver the feel and control expected from a serious spinning rod — in a format built to travel.
02Clean line flow.
A guide layout designed for smooth line flow, controlled casting and reliable performance throughout the blank.
03Secure by design.
A compact reel-seat system designed to provide a positive, dependable connection between rod and reel.
04Smooth. Controlled. Dependable.
A drag system designed to deliver controlled pressure when the fish on the other end decides otherwise.
05Balanced where it matters.
A grip and handle design intended to keep the rod balanced at the seat, wet hands included.
06Made to pack.
A clean butt design carrying the Ventra mark, shaped to sit flush against a pack.
06V-73 L
Specification
Ventra range
- Extended length
- 7'3" / approx. 2.21 m
- Collapsed length
- ≤43 cm, ideally 40–42 cm
- Power
- Light
- Lure rating
- 5–25 g
- Sweet spot
- approx. 7–20 g
- Action
- Fast / progressive-fast
- Capability
- Freshwater + saltwater
- Weight
- 110–125 g
- Maximum weight
- approx. 135 g
- Reel pairing
- 2500–3000 size
- Construction
- Premium telescopic travel-rod architecture
07The V-73 platform
One length. Different missions.
V-73 is not a single rod. It is a 7'3" telescopic architecture built to carry different power configurations and fishing applications.
Ultra-light finesse. Versatile light spinning. More powerful applications. Different rods, the same telescopic proposition and the same Ventra Fishing standard.
The first model: V-73 L.
08Rod + reel. One system.
V-73 L + V-3000
The V-3000 from Ventra Fishing is the 3000-size reel built alongside the telescopic V-73 L: a compact light spinning combination balanced at the seat. Designed to travel. Built to fish.
09Where it fishes
Ground it was built for
Built around travel: hard walks, cabin bags and mixed water. A lure rod first, at home anywhere between a hill loch and a coastal mark.
Coast
Rock marks and estuary mouths where the walk in matters more than the tackle you own.
High water
Alpine lakes and hill lochs reached on foot, with the rod collapsed inside the pack.
River
Tight, wooded banks where a short collapsed length is the difference between fishing and not.
Part of the V-System
Complete your system
V-GUARDRod tip and guide protection
Protect the part that matters most.
Compact protection for the most vulnerable part of a travel rod.
V-GUARD is designed to protect the rod tip and collapsed guide system during transport and storage without requiring a bulky conventional rod case.
Compact. Secure. Fast to remove. Designed around travel.
See V-Guard