. The majority of tape available were small off-cuts of solas which while being a superb film when used correctly it is not ideally suited to being wrapped around thin fishing rod tips. Solas is designed to be edge sealed this is to prevent the ingress of water and dirt which is inevitable on fishing rods etc . The majority of the available products are also very brittle and do not conform around small shapes like fishing rods very well. This is where the concept of mighty bright rod tip tape came about.