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I agree w/ saltheart to some extent on the small guide thing. I found no difference in performance going to say size 8 guides as compared to 10 or 12. Shockers completely limit the use of smaller guides in my experience (I don't use em anyway unless I am throwing 6 oz plus a chunk). However, if you aren't going to use a shocker and you aren't worried about weeds accumulating in the guides you can probably go with a 10 or 12. Even if 12 is going to be the smallest, four 12's along the tip in place of the 20, 16, and 12 that would otherwise be there might make a big difference. I found absolutely no benefit going with a 25 or even a 30 gathering guide with a reel like a 706 and it actually negatively impacted the performance of the rod. Others swear buy starting with the small gathering guide, however, I have never found anyone who builds like that who checks for line slap; I sould not got rid of line slap with a 30. As a kinda related aside, I have a buddy who has an arra 1205 wrapped with the older standard of 5 or 6 guides starting with a 50. He doesn't like the rod and almost never fishes it. The other night I decided to hand him the one I built using the new guide concept and he said it felt completely different than his. It is worth at least taping em on and trying it out.
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