I wove initials on a friends rod yesterday, coated it , and after putting a decal of his name on the reverse side of the weave , put a final coat of finish on this am at 8am.
After the Chargers won in overtime today at about 115, I went down to turn off my dryer and saw that at sometime, somehow it had fallen off the narrow workbench where is has sat unmolested for many years and was upside down on the floor. The rod, which is a 10' ulua, was still turning in the dryer with the rod tip jammed against the door jamb on an angle. I shut off the dryer, removed the rod, checked for damage to the rod or weave and determined that everything was ok. Must have been my lucky day!! Only problem is I don't know why it happened so I put two 5# sinkers on the dryer base to hold it-hopes that works. God watches out for old guys......

Now I plan to watch the Seahawks stomp all over Eli and the Giants. I actually like the Giants but we in San Diego will never forgive Eli for snubbing us!!!

Jimmy, Jimmy, Jimmy....The Rod Gods were surely looking after you. That's for sure because you are way over the hill and I'm sure they (the Rod Gods) practice a certain degree of leniency in cases like yours. I'm guessing 10#s should hold it.

Must be nice to be lucky. If that happened to me the tip would have broke and blank would have a permanent set in it. P.S. What are people using the Ulua's for? Jig rods in SoCal?



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Wow are you lucky! I'll bet your toast always lands butter side up if you drop it on the floor:) Glad that you got lucky on this one, it would have been a mess to fix.

Jim Smith

duplicate post, must be a software glitch, I couldn't have hit the buttom twice



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The rod belongs to the chef on the long range sportfishing boat EXCEL based in San Diego on which I fish alot. The crew gets perverse pleasure out of hooking jig fish on long rods and then handing off to unsuspecting anglers who then get worked bigtime if not familiar with fighting fish on long rods!! They can really get distance on a jig with that long of a rod-great for yt and small tuna.
Several years ago on another long range boat one of the crew hooked a 100# bft on his 9' jig stick and handed off to a Navy seal who really got worked but being in super physical condition eventually landed the fish. Everybody stopped fishing and watched and cheered the guy as he struggled but he won and landed the brute.

You're Living right!!!!!..........if the Rod Gods saw terrible behavior in your lifestlye, the rod would be stuck to the floor,weave side down. If that were the case, you'd file it under very bad luck, and not even question Lifestyle. Re-weaving initials with a cloud of doom and rage hanging over your head.

"Mildrumadeus", "Aftcocious", and "Fugettta" are more powerful than you think! LOL.

Phil; To answer your question some of the guys use the longer rods on the rail. The roll of the boat and the action of the longer rod really work a fish.

Oops; duplicate post...

Putter
Williston, ND



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Jim K, you are a lucky dog!! (You know you don't "live right" LOL!).

I've always placed a weight that I molded in a cast iron egg poacher on my rod rests and dryer bases. I did it more because I'm always bumping things around reaching for stuff and it helped minimize movement when I goof up like that (rubber feet on the bottoms of all along with the weights really help).

Putter
Williston, ND

I use old scuba weights left over from the diving days to weight my dryers down.
Stan

Hey Jimbo, maybe you guys up north use 10' rail rods but I've never seen that use for them down here. That is strickly a jig rod and I believe the longest Seeker makes.

PS-Eli did get stomped

Hey Jim, what are you doing with that long rod? Don't ya know old guys can hurt themselves just holding one of those?

Tom

"PS-Eli did get stomped"... and a pretty sight it was.

Interesting... never realized anyone used a rod that long on the rail.

Perfect example of my luck:

Tonight, finish the last rod I'm going to do before I leave for Japan. My household stuff is getting picked up this week. So I'm trying to clean things up before the movers get here. I reach for a pair of dikes that are over the spinning rod on the dryer, the whole time thinking "I probably shouldn't be doing this... but its just a pair of dikes, what can happen."

What I don't see is the silver metallic A thread stuck to the handle of the dikes, and before I know what's happened, the 30 stripper guide catches the thread and spins it right off the spool still laying on the other side the bench, pulls it off the dikes, and around a nice, perfectly wet guide foot. Although not wet enough to fix itself or use heat to fix.

Will have to do damage control tomorrow, shouldn't be anything another coat won't fix, but perfect example of my "luck."

:)

Jim, I'm glad it turned out all right. I had one come off the dryer once, and when I went down in the basement to check on it, and saw the blank on the floor my heart jumped into my throat. It was for a freind, and very important to me. You are definitly smiled upon. My wrapper and dryer are lag bolted onto antique sewing machine tables, and the dryer has new, big inline skate wheels. Nothins goin anywhere. Probably shouldn't say that.... Levi

Just to make things clear I don't use a 10 foot rod. Too old as Jim suggests. However I was at the Seeker plant looking at their new blanks and part of the conversation was about how some of the guys use of the Ulua rods on the rail.

To try and clarify, the Ulua and any other rod for that matter can use the rail in fighting a fish and many guys using the 10' Ulua end up putting on the rail if they hook a larger fish. But Seeker specfically makes "rail rods" that are designed for fighting big tuna on the rail and the longest is 6'3" I believe. The Ulua is mainly here for throwing iron a long ways(young or real strong guys only)