I find that using ?ight braid or mono I don,t need reduction guides just a tall enough butt guide to prevent line slap then runners..you may be surprised by the stronger hook set too.like Peter says, a light guide train is a big plus for an ultrA light..
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Thanks Mo..I enjoyed the videos..mountain streams are a young person sport..is that the kind of fishing you do? Very scenic..the rods and their flex were interesting..they behave like solid fiberglass ice fishing rods...do you know..thanks again..
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Ha, sorry Mo..I don,t know where that extra m came from..
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Sounds interesting..thanks Mom..
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Spinning orieents the rod also and without a load,..I use spiral for heavier lines for pulling power.,two pounds line is not for pulling..lol..I guess I just don,t get the whole bfs thing..spinning is so effective...
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Why spiral such low power rods.?
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when you get older, it only takes one little slip then you need hip surgery and you may end up in a chair with wheels not legs..and you can,t get any fishing done..just saying.
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yea Jim, he,ll probably get banned in the first month..lol..i just have to ask, this being a rod building site, how much fishing did you get in Tom..that would be the only thing to keep me going for 25 years..it,s such a great tonic, even one hour a week..just to try out a new rod buildig idea..
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l,m just going by feel but the more guides i use the smoother and quicker the load is transfered up and down the blank during a fish fight also i get stronger hook sets if i place the butt guides as low as i can on the rod tapping into more of the stiffer butt..some will say you loose casting distance because of the sharper butt guide angle which is true but this is much less of a problem wth bra
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Thanks Mark..
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Mark, how many guides on the rod at what size for each guide..were they ceramic..how lonng is the rod, is it graphite or glass..i,m sure you listed this info but i can,t find it..thanks
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Tom, it,s good seeing you make some time for yourself..be careful, it can become a habit..lol.
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Mike, for a while this site has been getting one or two posts every other day..it comes in spurts but the spurts are getting far apart..maybe as a forum ages the only value it has left is advertising.
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it,s all about revenue.. did the sale include the magaine and the expo..if not this forum may be changed.
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i heard he sold it to Phil and that all we can talk about is advertising in rod building..lol..he has mentoned on occasion about shutting it down..i don,t know how he lasted this long..it,s pretty much a one man show we were lucky to have him this long..he,s got a lot of fishing to catch up on..lol. thanks Tom!!
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good stuff Jim..do i hear rod length plus three guides..lol..actually i use three more guides more often than two mainly for better hook sets and better fish control..
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cork can be flocked black..better, use urthane core then flock.mudhole has urthane cylinders..
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Joel, i could not have said it better..lol
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David,, it was easy to un snag from a float tube..you can hold your position and get rightbover the snag and poke straight down..often i had to remove the reel and submerse the whole rod..no braid on the flipper just fluoro..braid on everything else and only 10#..i only flipped snags..
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the locking wrap is so easy to do and stablizes the guide so well..i fish in snag infested water my rod is poked into it to get unsnagged often, way to often..the locking wrap has kept me fishing i,m sure..
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Kent, for over ten years alli did was flipping mmostly from a float tube in delawares mill ponds and caught soe really nice bass..no one else flipped..i hadbit to my self..anyway i would flip till i got hung up and had to go in and unsnag it..my rods took a beaten from poking in tree limbs and such but to this day there is not a single crack in any guide finish at the toe where all my commercial
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i do not think epoxy seals tunnels very well..it pops free of the blank in time and water can get in..if the tunnel were left open so air can freely move in and out it would quickly dry out..i,ve been usig Seymo sealer and leaving tunnels open to dry..the sealer is water resistsnt..i leave the tunnels open on both ends of the guide..water can get but also comes out and air gets in to dry the tunn
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Hear! Hear!
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i think it was hobby poxy before crystal coat.. used for painting lures etc..
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Rob, i agree about modern glass but i,m going have to try the S2..i think it might make a fun bass bugging fly rod..about the weight of graphite but the softer touch of glass..but your right, they do get stiffer as they get lighter and as they get stiffer they get fast like grahite..without the weight they can,t act like glass..
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Grant, that,s so funny..your killing me!
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Micky, that,s it! that,s eerie..she got every word..get her to pick all your lotto numbers..she,s plugged into another dimensiion..there are people like that..thanks..
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Micky, TWOMH, i forget..i made it up then forgot..should have written it down.Ha, sorry..don,t get old..lol.
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TWOMH....Micky
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Micky, what,s sme..
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