Built myself a 300gram tuna jigging rod acid wrapped I love it! Have only used it for pollock and cod so far but it handles sweetly. It loves the heavier jigs
. . The added benefit is not having to fight the conventional reel to stay in position as under load it just sort of rocks into place then just settles in for the duration of the fight. I'm running an accurate 2 speed reel for jigging so its not light.
I would say if the reel you are using for your live lining is a heavier reel. Say one of the tank Abu 7000's big games then you would notice the benefit.
My suggestion to you would be to get your reel seated where you find it comfortable. Then lay the guides out in a standard conventional configuration and as you go through your deflection tests make notes or better yet setup a jig load and take pictures for comparison. Then setup your guides in an acid wrap layout and see how they compare. Just taping on the guides should suffice for your testing. You will not notice the subtle benefits of the acid/spiral wrapped rod until under a relatively good sized load.
If you do go with one of the softer glass blanks make sure your "bumper" guide on the acid wrap pushes your line away from the blank sufficiently. Ie. test the crap out of it. Testing with a 2 pound load will not realistically portray what you are goin to load the blank with so test accordingly. You dot want to end up to close or rubbing the blank.
Finally hooking moby, and having her saw through your blank would be... No fun. If you want to take my jigging rod for a spin or want to talk a bit about it give me a call man
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