I've seen this with others, too. When fishing from boat, I'm using a line basket from a Danish manufacturer, and that helps a bunch with line management and shooting it - this way I can consistently cast the whole fly line 2 out of 3 casts. Now I'm waiting for the replacement blank and this will set me back a lot of time.
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OK, thank you for all of your thoughts. Looks like I'll be stuck with the components (ordered from France). Today I have received the Method blank 1090-4 from MudHole and the ferrule of the tip section has a big crack in it. This blank at closeout costed me $457.93 with shipping included and custom taxes ($76.00). I was about to order the remaining of the #4 size recoil snake guides... I must
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Thank you, that makes sense to my lack of rod building skills and experience. One more thing: why the jump from a #20 stripping guide to a #12 one? To better channel the line to the smaller guides, perhaps? I wonder if there would be any significant weight added/performance lost for going with this: 20J / 12J / 6 / 5 / 4 / 4 / 4 / 4 / 4... the #3 sizes feel a little bit too small for a 10 wt.
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Thank you, I was wondering if there would be any gains from such a change. I asked because I was more concerned about the tangles and knots clearing out the guides when fish are getting into the backing. This what the reason for asking about #4 snakes. The other reason was for maximum distance by shooting line... but I cannot see any gains or loses without testing different setups.
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Hello, I bought a discontinued Sage Method 1090-4 rod blank (10 wt. 9 feet) and the recommended guide setup from Sage is like this: 20J / 12J / 5 / 4 / 3 / 3 / 3 / 3 / 3. I bought some REC recoil RSNX double foot snakes as recommended by Sage, but I also added some extra, just in case. It would be ok to alter the guides setup with slightly larger RSNX like in this setup: 20J / 12J / 6 / 5
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I have received the components from my European retail shop, and everything looks great. However, I would try to change the Recoil snake guides #3 with #4, as the 4's look a little more stronger, at least to me. I ordered the guides setup as per Sage's recommendations for the Method 1090-4 blank, with 2 stripping guides in #20 & #12, ans the rest - snake guides, only that I switched to REC RS
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Thank you for all the inputs, they are very helpful. I would go with REC recoils RSNX guides and Fuji KW stripping guides. As for sizes, Sare recommends a certain setup for this blank. Snake guides: #3 x 5 pcs., #4 x 1 pc., #5 x 1 pcs., then strippers in #20 and #12. I already use another Sage Method custom build rod in 9', 9 wt. and I would like this 10 wt. to make it more of a super-shoot
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Is there any benefit from using ceramic guides for fly rods or the guides are heavier than the snake wire guides? I might go with a Sage Method 10 wt. blank for my next fly rod and some people recommend this kind of guides. As for me, I would still go with snake guides, maybe some titanium ones. Thank you.
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No matter what I do, the system won't let me post an announcement in the buy/sell section. I completed the multiple captcha's a lot of times, no matter what I do, I get the same reply: "The reCAPTCHA wasn't entered correctly. Go back and try it again.(reCAPTCHA said: incorrect-captcha-sol)" Is there a bug or am I doing something wrong? Thank you.
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OK, will do, thank you. I tried like 7 or 8 times but the system will still report incorrect recaptcha - even though I'm sure I've selected all the right images every time.
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Hello, I'm trying to find some Sage TCR old stock blanks, namely the 10 wt., 9' long model, 4 piece. Any help or idea would be greatly appreciated. I'm using a Sage Method 990, I know about them being discontinued and about the newer version,but I'm looking for "an old friend". Thank you.
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