Phil Ewanicki Wrote:
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> I have fished with fly anglers who seem to have
> ESP the way they they can detect the slightest
> take of a drifted nymph - and they don't use
> strike indicators or rely upon the sensitivity of
> the rod. The weight of the fly line and the
> inevitable belly in the fly line make feeling the
> take (sensitivity) impossible. They tell me they
> detect takes by watching for any change where the
> line enters the water. I have used this technique
> with some success worming for bass. The number of
> guide feet and even their weight are
> inconsequential when using your eyes to detect
> hits.

Very cool Thats defiantly a learned skill On this kind of set up that might be hard. It will be used mostly as a bottom bouncing rod with a 1.5-3oz weight. So you are continually tapping the bottom of the river. I would like to try and keep the sensitivity as high as I can. The hit from a walleye and a snag can fool a lot of people. I don't know how many times i have fished with people that think they are snagged and don't realize there on!

If you want to go with the Titanium TORZITE® Fuji's and use small guides you are headed for a KR Concept build. That would call for a TRVTG6 as a stripper (installed with the single leg facing the reel) and after that you can go straight down to your runners. I would recommend a TKBTG4.5 belly guide followed by TKTTG4.5 runners. If the idea of a full-on micro rod is more than you can jump into, use a TKWTG10 as a stripper, then TKTTG6 runners. Both of these set-ups with Titanium TORZITE® will be the lightest they can be.

Is there any reason to use a size 5 belly and then size 4 runningguides or should I use 4 all the way after the reverse stripper guide?

Jim Ising Wrote:
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> If you want to go with the Titanium TORZITE®
> Fuji's and use small guides you are headed for a
> KR Concept build. That would call for a TRVTG6 as
> a stripper (installed with the single leg facing
> the reel) and after that you can go straight down
> to your runners. I would recommend a TKBTG4.5
> belly guide followed by TKTTG4.5 runners. If the
> idea of a full-on micro rod is more than you can
> jump into, use a TKWTG10 as a stripper, then
> TKTTG6 runners. Both of these set-ups with
> Titanium TORZITE® will be the lightest they can
> be.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/26/2016 08:13AM by Mattias Svensson.

You're fine with 4's after the 6 stripper. Use two KB4's then go to KT's.

Tom Kirkman Wrote:
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> Added weight reduces rod "speed." They do not
> change the action, but the speed of reaction and
> recovery. Again, it has nothing to do with how
> many legs the guide has, but how heavy it is.
>
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Thank you for clarifying that, I appreciate it.

I am only a fly rodder. Know noyhing about other rods. Regret lack of supporting info. But...read recently somewhere that a group of people did a compairson test. They determined they cast further with snake guids. I can remember the number....10. But do not recall if it was ten feet or meters. Bottom line was further with snake guides. I prefer single foot guides anyway.