Never built one, never saw one, but want to go steelhead fishing in great lakes tribs. I have bought a couple of blanks, an all star 10 ft., and a St Croix 10 ft and am confused as to what style guides, reel seat spacing, etc to use. Any help on this would be appreciated. I have looked and looked for information and have come up with nothing useful. The books by trhis Nagy fellow talk about Noodle rods and who builds them but not about what they are. Thanks.

Go to St Croix's web site, they list all the spacings for the rods they have, you'll find the noodle rod there, you can also contact them and ask for a copy of all the rod guide spacings and they will send them to you.. I think I went to customer service with that one.

Hope this helps,, otherwise email me privately and I will give you the layout.

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a static test of the rod determines guide spacing, a noolde rod si a light action whippy crature, long and lean, made from a basically a light action fly blank , 4 or 5 wt, that bends throughout its length, Spinning guides are applied, on the order of one guide per foot of rod , not including the tip, this is a good starting point for the static test, go to the FAQ's bubble and click on it for how-to info such as static tests and concept guiding. Most noodles are 9- 10' or better and rated 4-8# test (for 9 footer, less for longer) lots of guys use heaiver wt fly blanks for better backbone , mich tribs can produce big fish, aslo look at using a michigan style grip, look at my photo gallery under my name "C" in the members gallery. lots of steelhead rods there. You can also just use a fly rod and reel and chuck and duck fish. want more info contact me

Also if your new at this think about using floats, I started with a noodle. And built 2 dedicated float rods Boy I catch a lot more fish and more hook-ups, Built one for spin. and one for pin which I am still mastering? doing OK with the pin but still learning to use the finger as a drag, But it's a blast!!

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/02/2006 01:56PM by Jay Dubay.

I agree with the float rod, much easier on the fish if they are natives that you have to put back.

Yep, you have more back bone if you were to fish Any of the popular streams you will have some @#$%& OFF people, And a spent fish. When everyone was using theses rods it wasn't bad. But now get your Fish landed Better for the fish and you will have happy Fishermen around you