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5 years ago
Bill Blount
Ken... I live in Gulf Cove and would be interested... what a week, been here since 2000 only talked to local tackle shops who repair guide and some doing a little building… I even attempted to get Florida state Take a Kid Fishing to start a program for the youth, but that faded into the Gulf sunset… BUT on yesterday's local noon news was a news item announcing the grand opening of a SW Florida
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9 years ago
Bill Blount
David, Have you been able to figure it out as yet??? Having worked on butt wraps before the books and videos, either VHS or DVD, I know you can work it out eventually... the one tool that will help you the most is a Butt Wrap Alignment Jig that Dale Clemens shows how to use in his 3M VHS tapes (hard to find but Amazon had one a couple months back)... you can make the jig or purchase it from supp
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9 years ago
Bill Blount
Marc, I have a few of my own lite & UL rods with the Tennessee cork Handle with slip rings I built up in the 70s & 80s that are still going strong and have no problems with the reel slipping around, in fact they are occasionally hard to get off when I need to work on the reel... and that is even after my teenagers fish them and they stay together (my boys usually put all my tackle to th
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9 years ago
Bill Blount
Hi all, I am looking for a copy of one of Dale Clemens' 3M tapes 'Building Your Own Rod'... back in the 90s I had a copy but several moves and time has it 'gone by the way of the buffalo' as they say... seen where it was to be put to DVD but haven't seen that either. Bill Blount
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