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A long way back Fuji an Lew Childre showed the high frame with small diameter guide tings made for long range ccasting . this was way befor braid. Fenwich made a series of rods called the Big Surf Stick series made for the pendilum casting system. John Holden wrote a book about distance casting using small frame guides and mono. Reel spool diameter was our resistance to the idea. I built quite a few rods -surf rods- for people back then using the Zyflex blanks and Dynaflex blanks with the Fuji 30 mm high frame as the ist guide and for some the 40 mm high frame as the ist guide. The set-ups went 30,20,16,12,12 10 then the tip. the 40set up was 40,24,16,16,12,12,10. These blanks were fast action with light tip at the last 2 to 3 feet of the blank. The K frame and micro wave should work even better. just remember that mono is affected by cold where braid isn't unless its so cold ice forms in the fibers. Find someone with a Kframe set-up rod and ask them to let you give it a try. home this helps. Ron
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