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Casting Bumper wrap -- all SF guides?
Posted by:
Mike Canavan
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Date: August 22, 2005 05:35PM
Building up a SCIII 7' MH casting blank for lake trout jigging. Lures run up to 2oz., fish average 5-6lb. with an occasional 10lb'r. My question is, am I playing with a possible future-guide breakdown, using single-foot alconite guides for the entire rod (including stripper & bumper) all Forhan-wrapped? Thanks for your help, appreciated! Re: Casting Bumper wrap -- all SF guides?
Posted by:
Ken Finch
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Date: August 22, 2005 07:22PM
Why not! As someone said here a while back, the line has no idea how many legs are holding the ring up there! I think I would forhan wrap them. I've started doing that to all my rods with SF guides. Only takes a few extra seconds and makes sure you can't pull the guides out on anything. Re: Casting Bumper wrap -- all SF guides?
Posted by:
Mike Canavan
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Date: August 22, 2005 08:41PM
Thanks Ken. I really like the total single-foot look and performance on all my rods too! This is my first casting rod though. In this case with a bumper-style wrap, I was just wondering how any line torque from reeling in fish would affect the position of the stripper and first 180deg guide over time. Re: Casting Bumper wrap -- all SF guides?
Posted by:
Anonymous User
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Date: August 22, 2005 10:02PM
I would use double footed guides for the butt guide and second guide (first 180 guide). The rest would be fine as single footed guides.
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Posted by:
Mike Canavan
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Date: August 22, 2005 10:59PM
Thanks Tom, I'm starting to wake up and think a bit more logical now, better to be safe. On a rod this size, the extra weight of a couple of guide wraps won't hinder anything. Appreciate your help and opinion as always! Mike Re: Casting Bumper wrap -- all SF guides?
Posted by:
Anonymous User
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Date: August 23, 2005 08:47AM
And that tiny bit of extra weight is down low, not out on the tip where it would make any appreciable difference.
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Posted by:
Mike Canavan
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Date: August 23, 2005 09:50AM
Gotcha Tom, I guess here's a case where performance and matching the correct components to the type of rod/use outweigh aesthetics! Thanks again. Re: Casting Bumper wrap -- all SF guides?
Posted by:
Anonymous User
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Date: August 23, 2005 10:16AM
It won't look bad at all. Keep the same frame color and ring type and it'll look fine.
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Posted by:
Tom Doyle
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Date: August 23, 2005 11:44AM
Mike: I recently made one pretty much as Tom K suggests, and it looks and performs fine. FYI, this was a 6 1/2 foot MH bass rod: the butt and first 180-degree guides were double foot size 12 and 7, respectively. The bumper guide was a size 7 single foot fly guide (really hugs the blank) and the rest of the guides out to the tip were size 6 single foot fly guides. My only problem was deciding how many trim wraps and where to place them for the best look, haven't quite solved that yet. But it fishes great! Sorry, only registered users may post in this forum.
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