I'll admit it, I like to catch salt water fish on spinning gear. I feel it makes for a more sporting battle.

These days spinning reels have grown up. We now have $1000+ spinning reels landing 1000#+ tuna. Even the vertical jigging rods are fishing pretty serious drag settings.

So what guides do you reach for when you have a spinning reel, with a big spool diameter, that is going to fish a lot of drag? Lets say we are talking lines anywhere from 30# mono to 100# braid and reels from 8K to 25K size.

Please comment on everything from strippers to running guides to pros/cons of underwraps and single/double foot guides.

Russ in Hollywood, FL.

The virtus from amtak are good. I am sure the other manufacturers equivalent are just as good

It has been customary in the past to use casting guides on heavy spinning rods. Their generally heavier frames provide for the sort of robustness often required. To get adequate height for the first few guides, larger sizes are employed.

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If you need more height these are Fuji's are there high guides HB's
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Bill - willierods.com

You don't really need to underwrap any guides. Having said that I underbind all my double foot guides. I admit it is mostly for show but does have other minor benefits. Not getting into that topic!
The primary heavy spin guide I use is the Fuji MN style frame. With your query based on the range of lines there are many options. In the lighter ranges you can use the double foot K frames from Fuji safely up to 50lb at least. I'm about to build a rod with them for 50lb. You could most likely go higher but if you look around the really heavy Giant Trevally popping rods nearly all have the MN style guides. I'm building an 80lb jigging rod at the moment with a set of 40, 25, 16 and three 12s to a 12 tip. That's fairly standard. Not a bad idea to double overbind when going to 80lb plus although there will be a lot of debate in that. I use D size thread and suspect single is sufficient and sometimes have built rods with single overinding. So far the guides on those rods have not moved at all and have caught quite a few solid fish.
Hope this helps.

I use the MN style too. Like the virtus but only used them on conventional's so far. Ditto on alps. I have not used the K frames yet.

Didn't know if some super duty, high frame, single foot guide had been developed that I hadn't heard of. Seems there might could be a market. If they built belly guides and the power oval's, why not?

Russ in Hollywood, FL.