SPONSORS
2024 ICRBE EXPO |
LIne loops at tip....install another guide?
Posted by:
Jim Williams
(173.87.36.---)
Date: August 23, 2009 03:43PM
I occasionally am dealing with my fly rod and fishing and notice that the line, when idle is not going straight from the last line guide out the tip and hanging down. It is strung through the guides properly...but comes out of the last guide and arches up over the rod, but comes back down and goes out the tip like it should. Sometimes when I am fighting tangles it makes me wonder if it is tangled there and it is not. I don't think I have noticed this on every rod I try. So on those that do....do that.......wWould it be ok to just add another line guide about an inch before the tip top.....to keep the line UNDER the rod? Or would that stress the rod wrong? Or is is just an ok situation and just forget about it? Re: LIne loops at tip....install another guide?
Posted by:
Phil Erickson
(---.dsl.pltn13.sbcglobal.net)
Date: August 23, 2009 04:11PM
It is hard to visualize what you describe, but I'll take a stab at the problem.The most likely cause of this is holding the rod vertical while working on your tangles and the weight of the line drops it down. Often this will also pull the leader back into the guides.
Another guide will only add weight and probably effect the tip flex. Better to find the cause than a patch work solution. Re: LIne loops at tip....install another guide?
Posted by:
Tom Kirkman
(Moderator)
Date: August 23, 2009 04:59PM
I think I know what's happening and adding another guide isn't going to fix anything. If you could duplicate the problem and take a photo I could be sure.
............... Re: LIne loops at tip....install another guide?
Posted by:
Chris Davis
(---.chs.bellsouth.net)
Date: August 23, 2009 05:09PM
Jim-it sounds like the line's stiffness is resisting the direction change that occurs as it leaves the tip of the rod-taking a curved path because it is not limp enough to turn sharply. Re: LIne loops at tip....install another guide?
Posted by:
Tom Kirkman
(Moderator)
Date: August 23, 2009 05:37PM
It is wrapped around the blank or just bowed up at that point? The former indicates a common problem that can occur when line loops the butt (yes, the butt) on the cast and the latter is simply the nature of the beast. The line drops as it leaves the tiptop and because it's not as limp as mono or braid you have a bit of a bow formed just behind the tiptop.
............... Re: LIne loops at tip....install another guide?
Posted by:
Jim Williams
(173.87.36.---)
Date: August 23, 2009 06:23PM
Chris and Tom,
You both have it right. The line seems to be so stiff at that point that it bows. And Tom that is the latter case in your statement. It is just the nature of the beast so to speak. Just the rub of the green I take it. Thanks If I get a chance I will take a pic....but I think you guys have a pretty good picture of it in your mind already....by the way you have described it. Yep, it is that bowed up look I am talking about. Re: LIne loops at tip....install another guide?
Posted by:
Tom Kirkman
(Moderator)
Date: August 23, 2009 08:36PM
Putting another guide on there may reduce the bow, but it won't help anything from a performance standpoint. I wouldn't do it.
............ Re: LIne loops at tip....install another guide?
Posted by:
Herb Ladenheim
(---.hsd1.fl.comcast.net)
Date: August 23, 2009 10:18PM
Happens to me all the time - Chris is correct. Once line is tensioned it goes away.
Herb Re: LIne loops at tip....install another guide?
Posted by:
Jim Williams
(173.87.36.---)
Date: August 24, 2009 02:02AM
Thanks everyone. End of curiosity.
Question answered very adequately. Thanks again. Jim Sorry, only registered users may post in this forum.
|