two piece trolling rods

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Re: two piece trolling rods

Posted by: Martin Ferral (---.fuse.net)

Date: September 14, 2005 01:25AM

I think your customer would really like a 5' rod that the handle and reel seat detached from the rod. I've built several and have really appreciated their portability. Infact I'm taking two with me on an offshore trip next month. Here's how I would build it. First get any reasonably priced stubby blank and cut the butt end off to overall length of 42". Next get a two piece reel seat with ferrule and lock nut that will accomodate both the reel size and the blank diameter. Epoxy the rod butt into the ferrule. Check with the sponsors and buy a tuff butt or slick butt and matching gimble. Configure so the length of the reel seat, tuff butt and gimble are approximately 18" long. I usaully run a length of oak dowel inside the tuff butt into the reel seat for rock solid support and weight. Epoxy everyting together. Place foregrip, tip, and guides on and you're finished. The shorter length rods give the fisherman a much greater advantage when fighting fish and are less tiresome. A butt heavy rod is easier to keep upright as well. You should be able to build this type rod very inexpensively. Hope this helped.
Martin

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