Hello all,
1st post here.

So about a decade ago, I went to the ICRBE & grabbed several blanks from the trash cans. Not too long after, I stopped fishing for a while & I just discovered a few blanks hanging in the garage.

The one I'm most interested in has the following marking on a label near the but: GFS827T. I assume the FS stands for Flipping Stick & the 82 pretty well matches the length. It's a telescoping blank, seems pretty powerful & not a super fast action. I'd love to know some actual specs (like lure weight).

Now for the advise part. The only application specific rod l'd like to build right now is a spinning rod to do popping cork fishing for old drum out of the kayak this summer/fall. Is this a terrible idea with this blank?

Thanks

I have no way to prove it, but my mind went immediately to it being a lower end graphite All Star blank. Maybe one of the Big Boy jig rod series.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/04/2024 01:34PM by Spencer Phipps.

It is almost certainly either an All-Star, Castaway or Shikari. I don't have a catalog in front of me so I cannot say for sure which it is.

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Tom Kirkman Wrote:
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> It is almost certainly either an All-Star,
> Castaway or Shikari. I don't have a catalog in
> front of me so I cannot say for sure which it is.
>
> ..........

It's an All-Star flipping stick...MH/MF



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 03/04/2024 04:54PM by Chris Catignani.

"It's an All-Star flipping stick...MH/MF"

Thanks.

Any thoughts about how ill advised it would be to build it as a spinning rod?

Charlie Safley Wrote:
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> "It's an All-Star flipping stick...MH/MF"
>
> Thanks.
>
> Any thoughts about how ill advised it would be to
> build it as a spinning rod?

I think it works.

As long as you keep the guides outside the collapsed length of the blank, you can make it anyway you like.