My issue of the Sept. Field and Stream had a simple sprial in it for a bass rod. Showing how it could be made. Had see pictures of them in magazines but not a small article like this. Hope the rod companies does not pick up on this.

Edwin Kime

Did they call it a Simple Spiral or did is just show that specific type spiral? Is it a how to article or just showed the rod in use? I will try to locate a copy on the newsstand tomorrow.

All the rod companies subscribe to RodMaker so I'm pretty sure they would already know about it, or any other spiral for that matter. For most, spiral rods aren't going to be something they want to sell - too much customer education required in order to get fishermen to try them.

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Tom Kirkman Wrote:
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> All the rod companies subscribe to RodMaker so I'm
> pretty sure they would already know about it, or
> any other spiral for that matter. For most, spiral
> rods aren't going to be something they want to
> sell - too much customer education required in
> order to get fishermen to try them.
>
> ................

I agree. I have let bass fishermen use my spirals and I still can't get them to want it, even though they loved how it fished.

A few year back I believe it was Fenwick tried selling spiral wrapped down rigger rods. That rod was not received well. Just like the rod where the line goes though the inside of the blank. I would not worry about it. There is too much labor involved for mass produced rods. Even for those companies building off shore rods, at quarter a rod. Time is money

Good Wraps Bob

Living in the Metro Detroit are, I do quite a bit of walleye/steelhead fishing out of the Canadian port of Erieau on Lake Erie. Production spiral rods are very common among the charter boats over there and many tackle hops sell them inexpensively. I may be wrong but I THINK that Shakespeare, Berkely or one of the other mass producers sell them over there. I also believe that all of the Loomis casting rods in the first year or two were spiral wrapped but Americans were to tied into "what a fishing rod should look like" to buy them. I'm glad to see them becoming available

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!!