As I recall last time you post, you rod is going to be a spinning reel surf rod. First, the LC guide is whole different bread of surf guide concept. It is made specially for braid and large spinning reel spool. Just say if you have a Daiwa Emblem 5500Z and spool it with 0.35mm mono and and other spool with 30lb powerpro. And you also use the 15m tapered braid leader of Japanese #6 GSP shock. Which should give you about 100lb shock leader. With basic, not major fancy, 3/4 turn over head cast with a 3.5 oz or 100g Sinker/castmaster. With a rod of 3.6M you should easily achieve 100M with mono and 130M with braid. We are talking conoflex blank, or Zziplex blank. With Loomis/st croix, you need to minus 15% on distance due to its slower tip action (Those rod are design for casting reel, not spinning). Then if you are talking Daiwa, Shimano, or Gamakatsu, because they only make 3.9, 4.2 and 4.5M blank, they would not be a good comparison. FYI, Shimano Kitsu Special with the LC guide, with Aero cast 9000EX on #2 GSP braid on 100g sinker on hands of the know have reached 310+M. Enough background.
One last thing, to understand LC guide you need to take a look at Guideless rod like Daiwa Interline, Shimano Innerguide series of surf rod, the reason LC was out for Daiwa Interline surf keep outcast the Guided ones in japanes competition. One look at guideless surf rod you would notice, the entry gudie is way up the blank. In the case of t he LC, first guide of the LC first have to either a 20 or 16 and it need to be at least set at 55% of the rod length. If you have 12 foot rod, the first guide should be at 6.5 to 7 ft mark from the butt. Or 1.2M from the reel. The LC guide is all tuned for casting, not retrieval. If you use lure exclusively, you should lower the guide a little. The idea is that as the line get off the spool, it need to be fully relaxed to reached the choke guide. Which if you think of the standard new concept, it is indeed the choke guide and the use of a bigger guides are all but elimiated. In case of a 12 ft American style surf blank, you need a total of 6 guides. 1*20, 1*16, 1*12, 1*10, 2*8 and a 10 top.
Last, with new rider, the reel is the key, if you use a reel like Penn, and you also use mono, it is better off not using LC for your distance will suffer, the MNSG may be a better choice. For more info go the florida surf board, [
floridasurffishing.com]? and do a search, there are plenty of discussion of how LC guide works. And you will also learn how world record roster fish chaser Sergio use his Conoflex reach 200+yard with 3oz lure with daiwa Emblem and Conoflex rods.
Hope this get you started the right foot.
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