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Lost as how to place guides for a spinner
Posted by: corky fleming (---.hsd1.ga.comcast.net)
Date: November 16, 2013 11:49AM

I have looked at this rod and can not decide how to place the guides. I have a Baston TS70MH rod. This rod is 7 feet (84"). I have placed the Butt grip and reel seat so as the top of the reel seat is 17.5 inches from the butt of the rod. I was thinking of using this rod for reef fishing and some possible trolling. The reel I would like to use is a Shimano 4500 bait runner with 30 or 50 pound mono. The diam. of the face of the spool is 62.02 mm. If you take that times 27 equals 1,674.54 mm (65.307" this would be at the tip of the rod.) for the choker guide.
Any suggestion would be greatly appreciated.

Corky
Corky's Custom Rods
Savannah, Georgia

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Re: Lost as how to place guides for a spinner
Posted by: Russell Brunt (---.mia.bellsouth.net)
Date: November 16, 2013 12:14PM

The article in the library should answer most of your questions.
[www.rodbuilding.org]

30-50# mono sounds way too heavy for a btr-4500 reel. I fished 15# on mine.

Russ in Hollywood, FL.

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Re: Lost as how to place guides for a spinner
Posted by: Tom Kirkman (Moderator)
Date: November 16, 2013 12:37PM

If the choker guide location is beyond the tip of the rod, then the tiptop will be your choker guide. Space the other guides up that point as specified in the article.

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Re: Lost as how to place guides for a spinner
Posted by: Laurent Keiff (---.ncc.abo.bbox.fr)
Date: November 16, 2013 04:57PM

you may want to try another approach.
look at a Fuji spacing chart
(you have one here: [www.rodhouse.fr])
except that for a MH rod like yours, I'd go 30 / 16 / 8 then 6s up to the tip. In my experience, it works really good.

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If I'm not going to catch anything, then I'd rather not catch anything on flies.

Prostaff Rodhouse
[www.rodhouse.fr]



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/16/2013 04:57PM by Laurent Keiff.

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Re: Lost as how to place guides for a spinner
Posted by: roger wilson (---.hsd1.mn.comcast.net)
Date: November 16, 2013 07:59PM

x10 on Laurent's comments.

Also, you can go to Batson, St. Croix and other web sites which have suggested guide spacings as well as guide size.

Be safe

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Re: Lost as how to place guides for a spinner
Posted by: jeff vanek (---.dsl.chcgil.ameritech.net)
Date: November 17, 2013 08:19PM

Russell Brunt Wrote:
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> The article in the library should answer most of
> your questions.
> [www.rodbuilding.org]
>
>
> 30-50# mono sounds way too heavy for a btr-4500
> reel. I fished 15# on mine.


is there a similar article for casting rods?

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Re: Lost as how to place guides for a spinner
Posted by: Tom Kirkman (Moderator)
Date: November 17, 2013 09:25PM

[www.rodbuilding.org]

But casting rods don't have to deal with the same motion that spinning outfits do.

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Re: Lost as how to place guides for a spinner
Posted by: bill boettcher (---.dyn.optonline.net)
Date: November 18, 2013 08:29AM

look at the reel It should have LB of line and how many yards on it

Bill - willierods.com

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Re: Lost as how to place guides for a spinner
Posted by: bobby stout (147.58.99.---)
Date: November 18, 2013 02:16PM

i would recomend taking a few minutes and look at the video that Fuji has on thier web site it explains well the difference on how line flows through guids both casting and spinning.

Bobby Stout
Bloomburg, TX

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Re: Lost as how to place guides for a spinner
Posted by: corky fleming (---.hsd1.ga.comcast.net)
Date: November 20, 2013 10:31AM

Thanks for all of your suggestion. I will get this rod finished. Thanks

Corky
Corky's Custom Rods
Savannah, Georgia

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