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Interesting thread.
I have done allot of reading and allot of playing around with low riders.
About two years ago I built a ssu1321mh with low riders. I remember reading stuff on fuji's website in Japanese. I actually got a teacher that I know to translate it for me.
I think salthearts posts are right on. I love the rod, it came out great. Not perfect, but very good. Easily the best rod I have ever built myself. I did spend hours with all kinds of different guide set ups and hundreds of test casts. There are so many other factors that play into casting that i honestly think for most of us guide setups are pretty minimal. In the same breath though, I took this thing out to wasque and had a bluefish every cast while others were every 4 or 5 casts. I could get that extra 20 yards that they couldn't. On that day I needed the extra distance, but on just about every other day that I fished that distance was not important.
My ssu absolutely smokes. However I find it to be finicky. In other words if I take ten casts 7 will be good, but then 3 will be sort of off. Kind of like a pitcher throwing wild. Put all that power in the wrong direction, and you have a powerfully bad cast. The tip of the rod ended up a bit heavier than I thought it would, saltheart is right on about the guide feet being long on the lowriders.
I also have an all star 1209 that I built with new concept guides, just with smaller frames. Old timers look at it and scratch their heads.
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