Alex, I'm giving serious consideration to that. I don't know anything about ferrules yet. I imagine the good folks at mudhole would help me know what size to get, and there's got to be an installation video somewhere. I had thought about getting a donor fiberglass rod or blank and cutting a ferrule out of it.
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Bob, the S782-2, which is what I think you intended to link me to, is on my radar. Lamiglass has a clearance blank GP722L that's a 6 footer. Closest match so far seems to be Rodgeeks with a 6.5 medium-light carbon 2 C266MLF2 that they're willing to paint. I'm still just really surprised that this much manual searching goes into a product like this. I'll say that when I found some outlet
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Tom, that’s one of my challenges. I don’t care what the blank is “supposed” to be for. If it’s the right size and the right flex, I’m happy to use it. Yet I’m having to navigate through layers of application that don’t matter to me. Mag bass and popping and vertical jogging and flipping and walleye and so on ad infinitum. I’d love to just have a comprehensive list with specs, and just fine the o
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New builder, first rod, a little overwhelmed with the plethora of blanks on the market. Finding it difficult to navigate the many dealers x the many makes x the many model lines. Can you help? These are my ideal specs, don't mind flexing on any of them unless noted: 2-pieces (this is a must have) light power fast action 6-6.5 feet affordable available in a color other than white/bla
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