hey all,
i am building my first fly rod, and have a question about the guides. i want to put single foot holo guides on this 2 pc 7' 4 wt rod. any suggestions and help with manufactures would be appreciated. i want to use guides with inserts, not the wire guides or snake guides. thanks.

Hi David,

I for me personally it would be a little overdone to put on such a rod (7' #4) just ceramic guides. If you like them put a holo stripper but everything else is from my point of view a little too heavy. Hope that also some others will put a comment on yr thread.


RGDS,
Ole

What the heck, I'd give it a go with the Am Tack ceramic flys. Might just try the single foot 10 fly as the stripper than a 6 and 5s to the 5 fly tip. If you didn't like it you could just untape the guides and slap some singlefoot wires on pronto.

I've always used ceramics on all fly rods. They're not heavy if you size and select the properly. Most likely, 6's are all you need and if you can get by with 5's, so much the better. I'd use a high frame #10 for the stripping guide.

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David,

I would definately go for it!! I like Am Tac's holo guides, Like Tom, I would go with a SF 10 or 12 and the rest, #6 fly type ceramics.

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!!

Bronze snake guides wrapped with silk,,, the only way ~~~~


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good morning all,
i just wanted to say thanks for your help. i am building this for a friend and want it to look really sharp, but more than that i want it to perform very well. i will no doubt be calling on ya'll for more advice when i really get it going. thanks again for the input. dave daniels.

All my fly rods, ranging from 5' 3wt. up to 9' 10wt. have single foot ceramics. On the light rods, I use #6s and a light amount of finish. If you built two identical light line rods, one with wire and one with ceramics, you might notice that the wire one feels slightly crisper without a line on it. But, once you get a line on them, this slight difference just disappears and the other benefits of the ceramics are what you will notice. By the way, I also use just the inexpensive Forecast H-ring fly guides or occasionally I'll spring for Alconites. I imagine if you pay the bucks for the titanium alloy frames, the crispness I mentioned would be no different but this kid ain't paying that kinda cash for fly rod guides. At least not on my rods where the money is coming out of my pocket. One builder's opinion.

I think you are right at the cut off for ceramics, so go for it. Personally, I like a graduated set, 12-10-8-6-5s to tip. Don

Steve Kartalia Wrote:
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> All my fly rods, ranging from 5' 3wt. up to 9'
> 10wt. have single foot ceramics. On the light
> rods, I use #6s and a light amount of finish. If
> you built two identical light line rods, one with
> wire and one with ceramics, you might notice that
> the wire one feels slightly crisper without a line
> on it. But, once you get a line on them, this
> slight difference just disappears and the other
> benefits of the ceramics are what you will notice.
> By the way, I also use just the inexpensive
> Forecast H-ring fly guides or occasionally I'll
> spring for Alconites. I imagine if you pay the
> bucks for the titanium alloy frames, the crispness
> I mentioned would be no different but this kid
> ain't paying that kinda cash for fly rod guides.
> At least not on my rods where the money is coming
> out of my pocket. One builder's opinion.


Steve, what are the benefits of ceramic guides over snake?





Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/01/2006 02:06PM by Alan Tomich.