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"tamer" guide
Posted by: Tom Church (---.tampfl.fios.verizon.net)
Date: May 15, 2008 09:29AM

For those of you that build fly rods do you put a "tamer" guide about 4 inches in front of the stripper? What are the feelings on this, does it really benefit the rod?

Thanks,
Tom Church

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Re: "tamer" guide
Posted by: Mike Barkley (---.try.wideopenwest.com)
Date: May 15, 2008 10:55AM

Scroll down a ways and you will find a thread on this same subject

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!!

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Re: "tamer" guide
Posted by: Andrew White (---.k12.ar.us)
Date: May 15, 2008 11:27AM

I really like it. On all the fly rods I've built, it's always increased casting distance. Sometimes it helps just a little; sometimes it helps quite a bit.

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Re: "tamer" guide
Posted by: Tom Church (---.tampfl.fios.verizon.net)
Date: May 15, 2008 01:46PM

Oops, how did I miss that post... Sorry.

Tom Church

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Re: "tamer" guide
Posted by: Terry Turner (---.hsd1.or.comcast.net)
Date: May 18, 2008 04:45PM

The last 7 wt I built for a customer, I demoed the casting distance with and without a taming guide. If you watch the line without a taming guide while the caster is shooting line, you can see a pronounced belly in the line. With the taming guide in place, there is no belly and the line is very level when shooting. He was skeptical at first but really sold when I demonstrated this.

Terry

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