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Sweetwater · 08-31-2005, 05:17 PM

In other words, you can't take a spinning rod and simply remove the eyes and put conventional eyes on the same side of the rod. To do a conversion, you have to remove all the eyes AND the reel seat and move everything to the other side of the rod (180 degrees) assuming the spinning rod was tied properly to begin with.

Check the spine (spline) and make sure that the natural bend of the rod is appropriate for the way you would normally fight a fish. The natural arc of the rod should point downward with a conventional reel on top, and a spinning reel on the bottom.

08-31-2005, 05:17 PM	#7
Sweetwater Ruled only by the tide iTrader: (0) Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Truro Posts: 801	clarification to last post In other words, you can't take a spinning rod and simply remove the eyes and put conventional eyes on the same side of the rod. To do a conversion, you have to remove all the eyes AND the reel seat and move everything to the other side of the rod (180 degrees) assuming the spinning rod was tied properly to begin with. Check the spine (spline) and make sure that the natural bend of the rod is appropriate for the way you would normally fight a fish. The natural arc of the rod should point downward with a conventional reel on top, and a spinning reel on the bottom. Last edited by Sweetwater; 08-31-2005 at 05:53 PM..
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