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Torin, yes i just looked at them again during my lunch break and I don't think they will work for my style of fishing. One of the downsides of buying via the internet and not having a supplier nearby that you can go visit to see the items first. The nearest stores to me here in Memphis is either Schneiders in Mountain Home Arkansas and they are not open weekends , or Swampland in New Orlea
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Tom,and Roger, thanks for the input. This is not a boat rod, its part of my 3 and 4 piece travel rod set. This is how i use travel rods:I have a reinforced 42 inch gun case i carry 4 and soon to be this, the 5th , travel rod around in. Each rod has a nest of foam it lives in. Its airline legal size for in cabin. At the last minute they sometimes put it below but you get it back as you depla
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Tom, i have not used the Minima super high singles, would they be up to the task?
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This will be my first minima guide build. So far i like what i see with them but i have reservations. I am trying to put together a heavier travel rod for myself. General scratching below dams for striper, cats and whatever bites,and redfish/blues etc in salt. Its a 8 1/2 ft lamiglass GSA1023H 12-25 . Plan is to use 20# braid with topshot of floro. My other travel rods i used higher fram
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I like to mix Elmers wood filler light oak and U40 into a paste after i sand lightly and get that into the small holes and chips , its just stays nice longer. I tried mixing cork dust in too but that did not work well for me.Too gritty a finish. I spread by finger wearing rubber gloves. Sand very lightly and then pure u40 with a sponge brush. Works for me.
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Russel, if you are referring to the Lami's Mudhole have on closeout, i have one built up and would say its not up to Mahi of any good size: Chickens sure, not a bull. Its an excellent blank and i love it, but for big gator specs, slot reds,black drum,and general scratching around. I use 20# suffix braid on it . It does cast a smaller livebait pretty well and the tip is soft enough for livebai
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Tom, yes i know what you mean, i expressed that poorly. Its not 100% the same a line guide on a rod, but it exercises control of the line. Its one reason i take them off or buy reels without line guides. Plus when you take the levelwind/ lineguide off, you get more line billowing too. It exercises some control on that line billowing (is that even then correct term?), you have to compensate f
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If you are using a level wind baitcaster i think your first guide is already about 1 inch maybe less from your reel face: Its your level wind. So your butt guide is just another guide and should be placed just like you would any other. Now if like me you take off the level winds or buy reels without them for the extra distance they can cast, you need to do your setup like you do with spinning
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Yes to the 840 being able to be epoxy coated afterward. Its why i use it for this 'quick fix' and other odd applications (like when you have real thick feathers and you want to get all the air bubbles out with a very runny/watery liquid: 840 is what i use). Minimal smell and water cleanup.
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Gudbrod 840, hit it with a hair drier and its dry in 5 to10 minutes, do second coat and dry again. Then when he returns from the trip you can lightly sand give third coat 840 and when dry use your regular epoxy/technique. Not sure about flexcoat over gudbrod, i use TM Hi and Regular over it and it works well for me. I use 840 for many guys who want to wait on a new guide and wrap and many are ha
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It became worth it again to me this weekend when i went down to Orange Beach AL to fish. Same 8 1/2 ft rod length as most the folks there use. Standing next to a group of semi pro Vietnamese fishermen (they sell their catch is the local gossip) and with smaller weights I was able to reach the feeding bluefish and hookup into them. So much so they came over to ask how i was getting out to them. Wi
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Tom, just thinking out loud, but what about pulling up instead of down on the rod? Would this still work for some of the measurements? Then you start off with a scale you can set to zero;its hanging from the ceiling not the rod.
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Nice work there! If you can move your thread to where you are wrapping it works better. I cannot see if yours can. If it cannot move try this: drill a series of holes in the back of your wrapper that will take the thinnest tip of an old fishing rod in it. 10 to 12 inches long. With tip top. Use that as a way to get your thread to where you need it. Line guides are great for moving thread around y
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I would think where you are has lots to do with it. I am in Memphis. Exclude the toxic waste dump of America called the Mississippi and you need to travel 1.45 to 2 hours just to get to moderate fishing. 7 plus to get to good sea fishing. backpack into Arkansas and you will want to take a rod along. Those that want to catch crappies in the MS reservoirs will buy from BPS etc not me. Those that
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Multipart blanks. CCS so we can see what we are ordering. If the built rod can get into a carry on for air travel there is no competition.That means sections under 30 inches. I have folks wanting rods to take to New Guinea, Oz etc by air, all want to carry their rods with them so they do not get damaged or stolen. So its not just light stuff,its heavy stuff too: they target GT's,tuna,shark
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Marc, i use Gudebrod 840 for two coats after two or three coats of CP on my feather work. Then TM lite epoxy. The 840 gets into the gaps in the 'fat' feathers better than any epoxy i have tried so far and i get no air bubbling out. Just make sure the coats dry well and it works well for me.
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Mine is a 9wt TFO professional.
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Thanks for the ideas and suggestions. I have seen a small Daiwa baitcaster a buddy has called a 'pixie' and am in love with it and will go that route for the light weights i want to throw. Of course its an order of magnitude more pricey!
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Thanks Tom. Tried out a bunch of spincast reels and was not happy. The rod only stops twisting in your hand when there is pressure/pull from a fish on the other end. Doubt i am skilled enough to make that work out well. Will change direction and build another baitcaster rod.
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I have never used a spin-cast rod!( I grew up on penn 49's,Mitchells and wooden centerpins. ) I want to play with one and have the parts laying around for a 7ft rod . I have a regular fuji blank exposed baitcasting reel seat with trigger, first question is, will that work? The spincast reels i have seen are taller than regular baitcasters almost as high from the seat as a spinning reel. I am w
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I confess i have used gorilla glue to repair a few commercial rods where the reel seats were spinning. I drilled 1/8 holes in the seats where the reel sits, these were fuji and they have indents just waiting to be drilled. Injected a few drops of water and hit it with a hair drier. Then injected the gorilla glue and spun the reel seats to spread it and mix with the water to make the foam expand.
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Next time you order from Mudhole get some of those unsanded blanks in lengths under 6ft and various diameters. They are $5 each and make awesome reamers, plus supplies for repairs and if under 6ft do not even cost extra on shipping.
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Anyone know of a supplier of Matagi (or any other company) EVA grips for the VSS reel seats here in the USA? I googled it and only got Japanese price lists in Yen. Or folks who wholesale/bulk sell.
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Most my Safrican rods had Ozite as a handle material. Get the 'hair' or pile off of it and i wonder if that is not what you are seeing? Almost zero slip even when hands are slimy from cutting up very messy baits. Lasts forever too.
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That was an interesting and eye opening experience. I guess it varies by manufacturer, for sure i will be checking into this in greater detail in future too. This one wants me to mail in the pieces insured ($8 to $10?)plus a handling fee (you must be kidding?) of $20. They warn they are not responsible for guides/fittings once they recieve it, but want them anyway to see it was not an abuse scena
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I have been lucky so far and not built a rod that broke. That changed this weekend. Built birthday present for a buddies wife and 15 minutes after she gets it in her hand it imploded on hookset . 8-14# rated blank and the hookset did not even break her 8# line, just the rod. So how do others deal with this, via the manufacturer or the supplier? I have a lot of hardware (some very nice hig
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Tom, your description of the simplified CCS sounded intriguing enough that i just subscribed. I look forward to it.!
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Nathan, the batsons are good, very good. But if you want to go the route of the MudHole blanks because of the cool colors(and that is not a bad thing), i recently completed 3 rods based on the next blank up from what you are looking at: the IS601L. OK they were not colored but the color does not affect the blank. I stretched them 8 1/2 inches from under the reel seat. They cast well, even in
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I attended a seminar in Visalia California some years back which was basically trying to help small business startups. The figures were interesting to me and i have never forgotten them. I think they still apply to a degree today. Most businesses fail within 3 years. Of the ones that make it their selling price was AT LEAST costs x 3. The ones that failed were mostly those who could not accu
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