My 10 year old son and I are designing sort of a themed rod as a project to work on together. He wanted the Mudhole Project X spinning seat, but the thing is, his fishing skill is only at the spincast level (he has a Zebco 33). So the idea is to put the spincast reel on the spinning reel seat. Does anyone have any experience with that? I feel that it will be a functional rod but my main c
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All my life I fished with BPS and Berkley rods like you mention and thought they were great. My first build was an MHX MB843 - which is apparently similar to the SJ version you are talking about but stouter. Aside from beginner's mistakes with the aesthetics (a bit messy application of the finish) it is definitely another world compared to my old rods. It just feels different, and not just beca
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"I recently read that some people run braid direct to flouro but instead of a 5 foot leader they run 20 yards. Does anyone here do this with success?" I've used a short fluoro leader (less than the length of the rod) and that works great. I've only used the uni-uni and thinking of trying the alberto or even the FG knot to make it smoother. But the uni-uni works fine if you can put
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I only have a couple full builds plus a number of repairs under my belt. I never had trouble with the epoxy reacting properly (though my application technique is a different story, but its improving!). The thing is, I am a chemist and pretty used to measuring out liquids using a syringe, and generally being careful with the stirring and paying attention to the little details. That said, I've
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