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Originally Posted by numbskull
Actually, Fuji shows a way to do this with a conventional, although it seems unnecessary with the distances involved on a surf rod.
You have any interest in comparing the 11 foot Century to a GSB1321M? I'd expect the Century to excel but I, and likely others, would be curious to see how big a difference there really is between the blanks when casting and under static load. If Saltheart has his 11' Stealth by then and is free it could be even better. This weekend the traffic is too crazy, but we might be able to meet some weekday evening at the canal or Voke field.
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I would like to see an 11 foot stealth tested along with an XRA 1322 and the GSB 1321M. However , what I want to see is suitability for application testing. Yes this will involve some casting distance testing but if I were interested in disnce only at the canal I would bring my tip tornado light and just blast them out there. Of course I know its awfully hard to land fish less than 3 feet long with that rod. I need to use heavy weights so feel like I need a chiropractor after using the rod. It does not help you get good casts with minimal effort all night long, it enables you to cast really far if you work your butt off.
Now if I want to win a casting contest I woutd grab the TTL but if I am going to the canal to fish for the night with the goal of landing fish , IMO the XRA 1205 is a far better rod for the application. No contest at all in suitability for application despite there being no contest against the TTL if all we want is distance.
So anyway , without getting too deep into it in this post, when I build the Stealth 11 footer , i will be building it for suitability to application. Doing that on a new to market blank takes quite a while. So I think the timeframe may be more like a months or so after i receive the blank and guides , etc. But I think it will be interesting to see how each blank performs in the application it was built for.
Now if you factor the idea of suitability for aplication in the previous testing and discussions about the 10 footer vs the 120 1L , you will see that that is the basis for a nmber of the comments i made and how I interpret the data differently. An example, the use of the same guides and guide locations on both so that only the blank is the variable. now I can tell you that after tossing eels into the darkness for better than 3 decades, there is no way ever under any circumstances that I would build the 10 foot stealth as an all around plugging and eeling rod using LC guides. That's just an example though and of course expresses a preference for that application on my part.
So anyway , the thing I am hoping people will think about is that rods should be compared on the basis of their suitability for the intended application and they should be built with that specific application in mind. Its a lot easier to build them all the same and then measure the lengths of casts but I think people need to think beyond that, especially when looking at a total newcomer blank (s).