Any issues or tricks to using the Microwave guides on a spiral wrapped casting rod? Should I just use a transition guide as the "transition" to the bottom guide? I want to try these on an 8' heavy power crank bait rod.

Because the line doesn't come off the reel spool like it does on a spinning reel, I think you could set up per whatever standard spiral wrap system you currently use. I don't think it will make any difference.

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Are you talking about Microwave running guides? I can't figure out why you would use the Microwave butt guide on a spiral wrapped casting rod. Just curious.

Use regular ringed guides There are no pigtails to control on a casting reel

Bill - willierods.com

Bill,

Of course, if you want to use MICRO guides for a casting rod in a spiral configuration - go for it. (Micro guides are just small single foot guides)

Use a single larger butt guide, and then go on to smaller guides including micros for the runners if you like. I rather prefer the revolver style spiral which uses two or three guides to move the line from the top to bottom of the rod, but the choice is yours.

Be safe



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/25/2013 08:46PM by roger wilson.

Hi guys,

Bill regarding the spiral wrap rods, they will work great for this application, just as Tom mentioned.

I guess my questions are; why wouldn’t you use the MWG casting guides? What advantages to you receive by not using them? What does other guide configurations offer that the MWG’s do not?

Also I started a new thread above regarding the Casting Edition MicroWave guides.

Best Regards,

Darrin Heim
American Tackle Company

I know this ???

That is why when the CASTING MICROWAVE guides came out I could not understand why

Try them
Then compare to a ringed guide set up Let us know if there is any thing better

Bill - willierods.com

I have wrapped all my casting rods using spiral wraps since before 1990 and migrated to micros as they became available. I was looking at a set of microwaves for a spinning project and saw that they also come in a casting set. I too did not see much if any advantage on a casting setup so I thought I would ask and see if anyone could respond? The project is an 8' crank bait rod for deep divers like the DD-22 so a few extra yards per cast will help get the big baits deeper and should be easier to cast?

Bill B - There are arguments from both Amtak and Fuji that line control on casting rods is as much an issue, albeit slightly different in cause, as it is on spinning rods. Check out all the recent postings and watch the video on the Anglers Reource site. You may not buy it all, but it does make sense to me. It is logically more than just considering that the level wind eye on the reel takes all line control issues out. Even if it is stationary the line coming rapidly off the reel goes through it at different angles which probably sets up some commotion that could be damped with the right guide geometry. It is not, in my opinion, out of the question that we are now learning stuff that we have taken for granted for years.

I was thinking about that
Those guides might help to center the line when it is off to one side ? Since they are kind of a funnel
Like all new things it has to be tried

Still would be nice to get the one guide and be able to use whatever runners ya want

Bill - willierods.com