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Fighting Butt placement
Posted by:
Owen McLean
(---.hky.nc.charter.com)
Date: March 14, 2005 10:06AM
This question has been asked several times on the phorum but the threads seem to regress to pros and cons of cutting the butt of the blank in order to maintain equal lengths of the individual pieces and bypassing the original question. I am new to heavy fly rods and am building a 9wt with an A8 reelseat and the 2" detachable Pac Bay fighting butt. The base of the butt will not fit inside the blank so I end up with real seat extending 1 1/2" or so beyond the end of the blank. I normally seat my real seats with either drywall or masking tape. Should I proceed down this path or would it be best to use on of the permanent holed butts? Re: Fighting Butt placement
Posted by:
Anonymous User
(Moderator)
Date: March 14, 2005 02:21PM
If you don't intend to ever remove the butt, I'd build it onto the end of the blank and just be done with it. Extend the blank back past the seat and build a fixed fighting butt.
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Posted by:
Don H. Lukehart
(---.pitt.east.verizon.net)
Date: March 14, 2005 05:50PM
Don't know if this will help or not, buy I had the same problem with a 9' 7wt. I wanted to maintain the detachable butt. Seated the reel seat to the blank with tape,before I new about dry wall tape from this phorum. Have been fishing with it for a year now on the Lake Erie tribs for steelhead and so far so good Sorry, only registered users may post in this forum.
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