I have a customer that is wanting a sacalait jig rod that the line goes through the rod. I have seen these before but I would not know where to find a blank like that. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Scott

A really, really, really good idea is to read the thread below about interline blanks and then do all that you can to discourage your customer from ordering such a rod.

Very very very few reasons to build and or use such a rod, and plenty of reasons NOT to use such a rod or blank.

Be safe and good fishing.

Roger

I found such a rod that washed up on the shore line behind the house, complete with reel. Looks like it might have cost about $7.99 on a good day, when it was new. Telescoping, etc. If you want it, and will pay the shipping you can have it, if my son hasn't already put it in the burn pile. BTW, I live on one of the better crappie lakes in Arkansas.

I appreciate the comments and the offer.

The reason he wants a rod like this is because at times he fishes really tight cover and an interline blank would eliminate line tangle on branches. We also talker about a jig pole with micros but that still would not completely accomplish what he is looking for.

Scott,
Another option - do as many pan fishermen do.
Take a fiberglass long fishing rod. Tie a fishing line on the end and go fishing with no reel and no guides.

Take care
REW

Roger, the problem with that is when fishing 2-3' deep you have a 2-3' piece of line hanging off the tip of the rod. When trying to thread that through a 2" gap in a tree top you will get caught up. The idea is to have the jig sucked all the way to the tip as you stick the rod into the tree top and release the jig once in the top.

Scott,
Makes sense.
By the way, I was really kidding when I was speaking about using the pole and line on the end.

Roger

Scott,
But I think one thing that would probably work pretty well, since you are not using this rod for casting, would be to get a longer blank of the appropriate action, and then build it as a spinning rod.
But for guides put on one size 25 about 15 inches from the reel, to get the line going, and then drop to numerous size 2.5 micros on the underside of the rod, to keep the line really snug to the blank, and to minimize tangling with the branches.
By keeping the guides all on the underside of the blank, and by having a large number of them, you would be minimizing the chance of tangling the line in the branches.

Another thing that would Might help would be to use a relatively stiffer line. By using a relatively stiffer line, like a mono XT- the line would tend to stay straight as it went from guide to guide and would have less likelood of sagging and getting a loop caught on a branch.

You aren't concerned with weight, so you can put on as many guides as needed to keep the line tight to the blank. Since you aren't concerned with casting, use just the one larger guide to allow your reel to retreive line without a herky jerky action and you might have a pretty good setup for your unique application.

All it takes is a few minutes to tie up a set of guides on an existing rod after stripping the current guides and you could have a working model in an hour or two.

Roger

Thanks again Roger. Being that the interline blanks do not appear to be made any more it looks like it will have to be a similar set up to what you mentioned.


roger wilson Wrote:
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> Scott,
> But I think one thing that would probably work
> pretty well, since you are not using this rod for
> casting, would be to get a longer blank of the
> appropriate action, and then build it as a
> spinning rod.
> But for guides put on one size 25 about 15 inches
> from the reel, to get the line going, and then
> drop to numerous size 2.5 micros on the underside
> of the rod, to keep the line really snug to the
> blank, and to minimize tangling with the branches.
>
> By keeping the guides all on the underside of the
> blank, and by having a large number of them, you
> would be minimizing the chance of tangling the
> line in the branches.
>
> Another thing that would Might help would be to
> use a relatively stiffer line. By using a
> relatively stiffer line, like a mono XT- the line
> would tend to stay straight as it went from guide
> to guide and would have less likelood of sagging
> and getting a loop caught on a branch.
>
> You aren't concerned with weight, so you can put
> on as many guides as needed to keep the line tight
> to the blank. Since you aren't concerned with
> casting, use just the one larger guide to allow
> your reel to retreive line without a herky jerky
> action and you might have a pretty good setup for
> your unique application.
>
> All it takes is a few minutes to tie up a set of
> guides on an existing rod after stripping the
> current guides and you could have a working model
> in an hour or two.
>
> Roger

Cabelas and Daiwa used to have the rods in their catalogs. I think the only way you'll find one today, is if you get lucky and find a used one for sale.