| Mike P |
09-24-2010 12:20 PM |
Quote:
Originally Posted by numbskull
(Post 793952)
Yes, I would think so, but I've never tried it. That is what they do with the 1201L for this "montauk eel rod". Should work about the same with the 1201m, but give you a more powerful rod obviously than a 1201L (and probably more than a 1081m). You might also try to hunt down a kennedy-fisher 8720. They are very slow and very powerful (10ft). Perhaps they made an equivalent 9fter....someone like saltheart or mike P likely knows.
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JKF 8708 is the 9' equivalent of the 8720.
Good luck finding any. I bought the last 8720 that Pat Abate had in the late 1990s, and he had just sold his last 8708. To a well known fishing writer who once wrote in a book that there were no graphite blanks worthy of making into a conventional :biglaugh:
I once bought two GSB 132 1M blanks from M&Ds, and had Mike build them at 10' by chopping the butt (as he had no 120 1M blanks available then). One was built spinning, the other conventional. Bought them less than a year apart.
One--the spinning rod as my luck usually runs--came out stiff with the flex moved towards the tip. I used it for jigging before I bought an All Star 1209. The conventional came out soft and slow, flexing into the reel seat--it has no power to turn a fish in the Canal, although it's a heck of a beach eel rod (which does me no good now since I swore off heathen fishing) :grins: |
