Im excited to see hatteras jacks on there, He has a great selection of Century surf rods. Actually I gave him your # this morning :)
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I have taken blanks in a couple time, actually I am getting a blank this week. But on all occasions it has been on blanks that has been hard to find. I adjust my charges accordingly and give the usual disclaimer about broken blanks...
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You will scratch them in rod holders, but fixing the scratches is easy
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Michael, you are more than welcome to come up to my place one weekend and we can go over what ever you want 1 on 1
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It looks a lot like a Batson UD style guide
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John I have the SJB812 blank if you want to try and get together so you can see it
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I had and absolutely great time. I will try to get off my dead butt and make a schedule so everyone has more notice in the future. As for the infomercial from Steve, he is right the XP line from batson is really a great line of blanks. I personally brought a few of those for people to check out. And Tyler wants me to correct him, he is 10 and was 9 when he wrapped the rod he had there. Thanks to
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The new XP line from Batson is what I use personally, but that is for slot size drum, when I am targeting the big boys I use a Seeker inshore lite.
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Ok guys if you have already posted that you are in for the $5 ribs for lunch you dont need to post again. I am taking a last call and counting at 5 today for the cut off. You dont have to get the lunch if you dont want it. Just making sure everyone got ot see this, the details are posted in this thread: Thanks Chuck
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You got it, if oyu want to be a part of the Lunch here are the details, you dont have to do this if you don want to
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Here is the address: 2420 West English Road, High Point, NC 27262 11am-4pm time
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Well it is looking like Tom has a neighbor who used to be a compition Cook in the Ribs Circuit. He has offered to Cook us some ribs for our gathering. WE will need a rough head count of those attending and will to pitch in $5 for lunch. I know we already have one thread about the meeting, but I want a good count here if possible. I will also be sending out emails to those who recieved them before
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Tom Kirkman Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I think Sammy was just making a joke. > > ......... I assumed as much, but this comes up more than you think, hence it has already been posted on another forum. Just clearing it up now
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Sammy Mickel Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > It sounds like agreat get together I only have one > concern. Knowing many of the Nerbs and all due > respect maybe you should call it the SERBS. Here is a copy of my response from another board: Anyone who has had to opportunity to spend anytime with the original NERBs will understand me leaving the
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Steve I am open to good food anywhere, love me some good mexican, I dont have a preference we could all go out after its over if that is what everyone wants
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Guess a time frame would be pretty good huh? 11-4 sounds pretty good to me.
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Come on down Mike, I'll provide the bar of soap for you...
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Ok guys Im ready to start up again. I will be holding the first NC NERBs gathering at the Rodmaker MAgazine Warehouse in High Point NC. I know it is a little short notice, but I will be holding these on a regular basis over the fall/winter season. I will be doing a siminar on Close Decorative wraps, and will go through Billy Vivona's book, Decorative wraps, in detail. I will also bring my laptop
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First I have to start with a huge Thank you to the great people of Batson Enterprises. I contacted Karry Batson a few weeks ago, and asked for a donation. I was already building a rod for the 2nd Annual NCBBA Red Drum Tournament, but wanted to do more. The North Carolina Beach Buggy Association has been helping, and fighting to keep the beaches open at the Outer Banks of North Carolina. I origina
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He already did in the rodmaker magazine he listed
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Talk to Scott at fishsticks. At one time I know I saw some 3-4 piece surf blanks there for him to check out, dont know if he started carrying them though, My intitial impression was surprisingly good
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Jim Gamble Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Why not just use a fly guide and be done with it. Becuase I didnt order enough and they arent the fastest to get, Had Billy order them from Matagi. I will probably end up doing that , but that one guide will cause me to order 5 more...
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Duane Richards (DR) Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > You can always go up to an 8mm ring if need be. > > DR Well Im already stepping up, the running guides are 4's figured it would be easier to find a 6 close to what I needed
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Does anyone know where I can get a tip top with a8.5 tube and 6 ring? I am playing with a micro rod on a 10" surf rod and having trouble finding anything, I will probably just split a tube, but hoped to get around it
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curious myself I have been considering using them for some time...
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I recently built a 72l for myself. I built mine mainly for yakking and possibly going to use it live lining baits offshore. This rod is increadibel, has loads of power and yet a sensitive enough tip to feel most anything. I built mine with burl cork, no split grips and spiral wrapped it. I used the burl because it would be in and out of the rodholder so much. I have only fished it once, adn caugh
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I think you will have problems getting a good balance on a 7' blank with a reel that size. I often use 2500 stradics on similar blanks to what you mentioned and sometimes 3000's. I would take Toms advice and try to match the type of fishing instead of the reel. I also tend to like a more moderate action rod than mentioned for a mirrolure, my new favorite being the Rainshadow XP 844. If you want
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I just built on that blank for myself. I went 25,16,8,5's to the tip. I am using a stradic3000fi with 14lb fireline on it. I did some testing with a 20 on it and saw no improvement over casting distance. THe main reason I decided to go ahead with the 25 over the 20 is my spare spool is loaded with 8lb mono and when I changed to the mono there was a vast improvement by starting with the 25. On a
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I loose way to much stuff to the shop vac
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I loose way to much stuff to the shop vac
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