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No forgrip on rods
Posted by:
Steve French
(---.dsl.kscymo.swbell.net)
Date: February 19, 2006 08:45AM
I see a lot of rods being built with out a forgrip. It’s been fun explaining to customers the advantages of a spiral wrap on a casting rod. Most look at them like your crazy until they fish one. What are the advantages of no foregrip?
Re: No forgrip on rods
Posted by:
Anonymous User
(Moderator)
Date: February 19, 2006 08:57AM
Go back many years to the age of wood or bamboo casting rods - many of them didn't have foregrips. Rich Forhan popularized this with his Revolver Rods in more recent years.
The thinking is that you really don't use a foregrip on most freshwater type casting rods. You hold the reel more than the foregrip and thus, the foregrip just becomes extra weight - something put there only because it's become traditional to have a foregrip on a rod. By elminating it, you reduce weight and therefore increase (hopefully) rod performance and sensitivity. I'm not sure how much that really holds true, as the slight weight of a foregrip is down pretty low on the rod, where it won't affect the rod much. Still, as part of a package - no foregrip, split rear grip, cut-away reel seat, etc., you should see a measureable weight savings and in most cases with regard to a fishing rod, lighter is better. ............ Re: No forgrip on rods
Posted by:
Ralph Ratliff
(---.asm.bellsouth.net)
Date: February 19, 2006 01:08PM
The big advantage that I see is that by having no foregrip I can keep by index finger directly on the blank and get a much better feel of what is happening to the lure. I was surprised at the additional sensitivity.
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Posted by:
Charles Armontrout
(---.dmt.ntelos.net)
Date: February 20, 2006 10:21PM
I personally feel that a spinning or casting rod with no foregrip is as ugly as five dollars worth of home-made sin.
Make 'em aesthetically pleasing AND functional. Charlie Re: No forgrip on rods
Posted by:
Mike Barkley
(---.nap.wideopenwest.com)
Date: February 20, 2006 10:41PM
"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder" I find a nice sloping ramp from the front of the reel seat down to the blank, either tinted or wrapped with thread is far more appealing than a bulky clump of cork that to me is neither aesthetically pleasing nor functional (on most rods) Mike (Southgate, MI) If I don't want to, I don't have to and nobody can make me (except my wife) cuz I'm RETIRED!! Sorry, only registered users may post in this forum.
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