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5 weight 1½ hands rod - your advice please
Posted by: Peter Mulbjerg (---.aalborg.dk)
Date: April 26, 2005 07:21AM

Hi,
I've got an 11 foot 5 weight blank which I'm planning to turn into a 1½ hands fly rod. I've found out the guides to use (AMTAK Titans + a Fuji Titanium tip top), the reelseat is easy but the handle is giving me some trouble - how long should the front and rear handles be ?

Any other "features" you would build into a rod like this ?

Thanks
Peter

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Re: 5 weight 1½ hands rod - your advice please
Posted by: Spencer Phipps (---.lsil.com)
Date: April 26, 2005 09:11AM

R.B. Meiser uses a 10 1/2" foregrip and 3 1/2 to 3 3/4" rear grip that you can see in his picture gallery on his site. The search engine could find more posts on this for you. Putting in "switch rod" would probably get you there.

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Re: 5 weight 1½ hands rod - your advice please
Posted by: Stefan Scherf (---.pool.mediaWays.net)
Date: April 26, 2005 12:43PM

Peter,
I'm building a rod like you do on a 10ft Dan Craft FT blank. The upper grip will be around 26 cm (10.5'') and the lower grip around 9cm (3.5'').
I have a 10'6'' 9/10wt Bob Meiser Switch rod. The grip lengths on this rod are similar and it's perfect for underhand casting both hands on the rod. On Bob Meisers website (look for his website on the left side) you find a few pics of switch rod grips in the "gallery" (the shorter grips on the bottom) and in "Articles and Anglers".
I wouldn't build the grips much shorter as mentioned above as I think that your hands will be to close together for proper double handed casting.
Stefan


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Re: 5 weight 1½ hands rod - your advice please
Posted by: Peter Mulbjerg (---.aalborg.dk)
Date: April 27, 2005 02:21AM

Thanks guys - I'll go with your recommendations and have a look at Meiser's rods too.

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Re: 5 weight 1½ hands rod - your advice please
Posted by: Steve Perakis (---.hsd1.or.comcast.net)
Date: April 28, 2005 01:31AM

I would go longer than that. You lose virtually nothing by having longer grips, as you can always choke up no matter what the configuration. If you want to cast a long belly line, the wider grip can be helpful

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