I have a few rodgeeks blanks..are warranties still good if they shut down..maybe stcroix covers them..
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Newer companies can,t afford to make any mistakes lest the hired guns for the old companys start taking pot-shots..lol.
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Kent, your using the chinese rods only in abusive situations and when they break it,s because they are cheaply made and of poor quality..maybe if you tried the american rods in the same abusive situations they would also break and you would have to claim that they are made like chinese junk..lol.
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Kent, you spin an interesting yarn..like a fishing buddy use to tell me after i related a story about the big one that got away, "Maybe it,s all in your imagination"..lol.
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Can you get a grip with a 3/8 or even 1/2 inch hole?
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Paul, i have read on this site that snake guides are somewhat prone to being pulled out from under the wrap even if epoxy is used..i was just speculating that an underwrap may help better secure the guide in place and that if you used lighter materials you could reduce the weight issue..i don,t think it would be attractive to sell but may work for a hobby builder for their own use..
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Just thinking outloud..use OO thread for under and over wrap on 3wt. and one part finissh, even just CP as a finish(no epoxy)..would that lock down snake guides better than no underwrap and epoxy..lol..still less weight.
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Russell Brunt Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Please tell me you aren't comparing the NFC NEO > offering to an Ugly stik. i,m sure they would like to have Ugly stick sales..lol.
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Roland just introduced another service rod builders could offer, reinforcing guide inserts, say only a dollar a guide..lol.
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BLAG 5 or 6 make great tips..line lasts and lasts..
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Looks good for braid..
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they work great on my bugging rods..
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In the old days we used CP and before that laquer..lol.
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Norm, i look at them simply as indorsers for their sponsers and will say just about anything to sell for the sponsers or they lose sponsers..there is nothing innovative about that..it,s the oldest profession in the world as famously pointed out.
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This may come as surprise to many but there is an incrediblle number of exceptional and knowledgeable fisherman who are not pro anglers with their own TV show..i have been very fortunate to have fished with some of them..they each have their own style and technique which they have honed to a degree that is almost scary, if your a fish.lol..they walk or should i say fish down their own path..if yo
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All my bass bug rods are 8 feet or less..the hard part is finding these rods..you have to look at everything out there, not just fly rods..build for two hand casting also..shorter rods handle ceramic guides well, making casting and fish fighting smoother, so much smoother.
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Some is personal preference, but a lot is because that,s how roland, or jtmmy, or bill, you know who, hold their rods..monkey see, monkey do..lol.
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It,s just about the only way to cast a big hairy wind resistant bass bug all night..
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If a politician quotes a number, there is a 99.99999 chance he,s lieing..lol.
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Thanks for the link Bob..looking at the picture of the rod i couldn,t see how the guides could stay attached to the rod without epoxy..i saw the thread with i guess some varnish on it but we all know you have to have epoxy saturated wraps..sorry, just a little sarcasm but doesn,t that rod look lean and mean..you bet it is..lol..except for those guides..lol.
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liquid wrench..lol.
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Michael, the low build soaks into the wrap quicker and bubbles are the air being displaced by the epoxy..CP does the same thing only quicker and at less weight and less cost than epoxy..
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balance is also easily changed by changing your hand position on the rod..this is easy when fly fishing by simply moving your hand on the foregrip and it only need be an inch or two and make a big diifference in how the rod feels..i do this with my cast rods by building in a four inch foregrip to make the rod feel more or less tip light, whatever the technique requires simply by moving my hand on
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I use only braided line..it doesn,t care how you arrange the guides to get the line to the 180 guide..you can use any number of transition guides or none at all..it,s all the same with braid which makes the simple spiral as effective as any..
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i don,t want my casts to feel like a hammer throw..lol.
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the best tip i ever heard for building a spiral wraped rod was to just lay the guides out for a standard cast rod then rotate the guides 180 degrees and wrap the guides there.
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"Test of the Ages", good name..only us old timers can make sense of it..lol..i read somewhere that modern day ceramic guides are actually lighter than the steel wire guides, so maybe the edge goes to COF with alconites..about guide placement..as i recall it looked similar to todays set up..guides were closer at the tip and further apart at the butt..i think builder back then probably ha
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Mark, i don,t recallseeing many UL rods back then with ceramic rings, just mostly all wire..the few rods with ceramic seemed to have the life choked out of them, wire was lighter..your right in that fewer guides were used in the COF system, maybe just four or five guides but UL rods were much shorter than today's UL rods..i can,t wait to see your test results..i think COF is going to surprise a
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it only took me a few seconds after hooking a fish to understand that i was undergunned or not and that it would come down to fish fighting technique and lots of luck, especially lots of luck..lol.
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you poor thing..your doomed just like the rest of us..lol.
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