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another small guestion --which is worse a blank being able to follow its natural desire to twist slightly with a load on it or its being forced to remain in a stationary preloaded position because of the guides being place in a position that geometrically forces it to maintain a position.A couple of years ago I had the unforseen opportunity to hook of with a really large harbor porpoise(It was at least 6 ft longand I at first thought it was a tuna) in the canal Just off the mud flats on Bell Rd on a Wsb1204M blank with a 980 penn conventional.It had BSVLG guides on it which are a little higher framed guides then what I normally use for this type of Rod.They are billed as an All purpose guide so I decided to try them as conventional.I was using 20lb test ande pink mono.I stopped the fish or mammal on three runs and didnt know what it was until it surfaced right next to some guy fly fishing out on the bar.I saw only minumal twisting of the guides on the blank and was worried more about the line breaking during the 20/25 minutes I was fighting it while it made Jumps clear out of the water on the other side by the corp of engineers station and ran towards a tanker coming up the canal.The rod was spined---the guides were on the spine and I just dont see blank twist as that much of a problem.And yes he finally got away by dragging the line on the rocks at the bottom till it chaffed and broke on its fourth run. SOOOOOO? at what point does this blank twisting become a serious problem if ever?
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