without doubt a four piece because of the convinience. Much easier to bring around or travel with. They fit easily in my suitcase. Two piece rods takes much space when travelling around.
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I am not so fond of black reelsets. I think they get easily scratched. Does anyone have a suggestion on how to cover these small scrathes? Thanks
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They look find, bought three sets for my flyrods. in the sigle leg version size 6 and 7 are nearly as twice as heavy compared to Fuji TLSG. Unfortunately their top is much more heavy than fujis titan tops. Weigtvise they compare to Fujis SIC LSG6-7-8 size.
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Read my post: RECs recoil are arond 2 grain
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You ust download it from his home page. Try: . Yes he is sponsor. Take quick search on this board about his blanks. His 10`blank are not so fast compared to his 9`.
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My recomandation. I fish in Scandanivian waters, but I have some expierence from Florida. I have used the discountinued Austin Allstar blanks a lot. I spent the nearly whole March month this year in the Tampa Bay area. I felt I was missing a good 7 weight rod ( I did not bring my allstar rod, but I Loop bluline salt rod, which did not handle strong wind and lead eyed clousers to well . I was th
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I have four Velocity reels I a use the from Florida to freezing cold winters in Norway. I can recomend them.
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Does anyone have an idea of what color of the thread that looks nice on this dark green blank?
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Ordinary snakes . I have some snakes that are evenheavier . Recoil in size 4 "heavy " wire ( or saltwater) 1.8 grain. I managed to get a set of your titan flyguides while I was in Florida in March. Like them, have not decided on which rod I am going to put them on. But definetely one that is coming with me to Florida next April. Terje
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Thank you for your input guys. And to Scott I had three days days fishing to Alta a few years ago, beautiful rivrer, though I dislike the mosquitos. I mainly fish my home arena where I have two good salmon rivers close by and seatrout in western part of Norway. Where you have high mountians surounding the rivers. terje
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I usually use ceramic on my single hand rods, except fpr a few lightweigh rods were I have used recoils. This time I am building 12` 8-9 and 15`1" 10 weight and I can not make up mind if I should use ceramic or not. I have snake guides both single leg and ordinary from REC and some snakev hardchrome. I do lot of nightfishing and it is so easy to get the rod into treebranches, tall grass and
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I have weighted several guides today. The weight is accurate to +- 0.1grain. Fuji guides: Tlsg-7 3.1, tsg-7 3.0, tlsg-8 3.9, tlsg-10 6.3, Tfst75 5.9,tlns-16 17.6nTlnsg 10.01. Alconite concept guides: 8mm 5.7 grain, BFAT85 9,5.Clag12 14.2 grain Normal sized recoil top 3,0. Average snake top 8-9 grain. Snake guides from 3.4. to 4.5 grain. Amtacks titanium guides: Stripper16 mm 17.4 grain, 12 mm
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I have the dan Craft five Rivers FT which I think resembles Sage TCR amd The Allstar Austin which are a bit slower. I am satisified with both, so I wonder if there is any blank out there that comes close to Xi2 when it comes to practical use action vice and could be a good replacement blank for Xi2.
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I am just curious. Does anyone know any other brand of blank to match Sage Xi2 in six, seven or weight?
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