Vercelli Oxygen Cobra 2 420 Rod13ft 9in - 100-300g

Overview

The Vercelli Oxygen Cobra 2 420 is a 4.20m three-piece surfcasting rod built around a 100% carbon blank with a 100–300g casting rating, making it a solid option for anglers looking for a conventional beachcaster.

The rod features Vercelli's tubular Power Tip rather than a spliced solid insert, combined with SiC KW guides, metal-reinforced ferrules and a screw-lock reel seat with a cushioned hood. An ergonomic asymmetric rear grip gives a defined contact point when handling and casting.

According to Vercelli's official specification, the rod weighs 620g and has a 22.8mm butt diameter, with a transport length of 148cm across its three sections. It comes supplied with a Vercelli rod bag for storage and transport.

Perfect For

The Cobra 2 420 is designed around classic, overhead casting rather than pendulum-style techniques, so it suits anglers fishing conventional baited rigs from the beach.

It has been identified as suitable for clean and mixed ground fishing, with its tubular tip and substantial casting rating making it worth considering when conditions call for a robust everyday beachcaster rather than an extreme rough-ground specialist rod.

Technical Insight

Vercelli's tubular Power Tip is intended for medium-heavy and heavy surfcasting applications, allowing the blank to load up progressively through the cast when using heavier sinkers. This tubular construction is designed to transfer casting loads through the rod while reducing unnecessary stress on the blank, compared with hybrid-tip designs that rely on a spliced solid insert.

The SiC KW-type guides provide a surfcasting-oriented line-guiding arrangement, while the reinforced metal ferrules add strength around the section joints of the three-piece build. Vercelli's recommended 155g casting weight is a useful guide for setting up an everyday casting load, rather than relying on the 300g upper limit of the published range as the rod's ideal working weight.