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04-20-2006, 09:05 PM
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Southsider
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Bass River, Mass.
Posts: 1,226
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Jigging question: Rollers or regular?
Just curious here...
What do you guys use / prefer on your wire line leadhead jigging rod tips, roller tip or nonroller carbide?
I have used both extensively, but prefer roller tips, something about the wire dragging across the tip that bothers me. Both seem to work fine, guess it is just personal preference...
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04-20-2006, 09:08 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: mass
Posts: 168
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Roller tip  |
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04-21-2006, 05:40 AM
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Got Necco's?
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Franklin
Posts: 1,339
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Roller tip definitley. The wire may get kinked with a regular guide.
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HAMMER TIME! 
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04-21-2006, 05:42 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: On my boat
Posts: 9,703
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I don't like roller tips
If you break up your wire lingths like we do, the knot to the dacron gets caught on the roller when letting out!
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LETS GO BRANDON
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04-21-2006, 06:17 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Cranston
Posts: 1,029
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This may be a stupid question, but, can you cast a wire line, or do you have to feed it out while trolling? I have never used wire line.
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04-21-2006, 07:10 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2000
Posts: 343
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One must feed the wire out while trolling. I have never heard of anyone casting it and can not imagine how one would do so.
I have used roller tips, but the dacron knot does have a tendency to hang up there...
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04-21-2006, 08:07 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Marshfield, MA
Posts: 1,748
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Uffah.....Don't even think about casting!!!!! That day would not be fun. You have to let wire out and at a fast pace.
Personally I like a roller tip. But I just finished up a new Lami BT 85 7S jigging rod and used Silicon Nitride II guides with a regular tip. I will break the wire with dacron. Also I figured I can use this rod chunking mono or braid with a regular tip so that is why I went regular on my new rod.
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Jon, 24' Nauset-Green Topsides, Beamie, North River. Channel 68/69. MSBA, NIBA
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04-21-2006, 10:40 AM
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Uncle Remus
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Lakeville Ma.
Posts: 14,773
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no roller
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"A beach is a place where a man can feel he's the only soul in the world that's real"
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04-21-2006, 05:13 PM
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Seal Control
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Caver, Ma.
Posts: 3,875
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Roller baby!!
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"All my friends are Flakes!!"
BOATLESS 
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04-21-2006, 06:09 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: On my boat
Posts: 9,703
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How you jig will make a difference!
I let out my wire, lay down the rod and jig by hand all the time.
Jiggin with the rod, a roller tip is better.
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LETS GO BRANDON
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04-21-2006, 06:53 PM
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Seal Control
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Caver, Ma.
Posts: 3,875
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I agree!! Hand jig, need the dacron and set rod a side, regular tip. Jiging with rod Roller tip.
But I am different, I jig by hand on all wire with rod in holder and use roller.
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"All my friends are Flakes!!"
BOATLESS
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04-22-2006, 10:10 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2001
Posts: 7,649
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I feel your pain. I had all my wire rods switched to roller tips because IMO the wire tends to grab on the guide and makes for a more difficult and uncomfortable retrieve. I thought it was the wire and switched from stainless to monel and then to that other mix and nothing seemed to help, then swited the tip and life was good. I like carbide on the other guides though. I just use a tip roller.
They make several roller types. They make a swivel tip roller but it is like 50 bucks just for the tip. And they might even make a carbide roller tip. I opted for the standard roller tip that my shop said all the charter guys use and they replace the roller every year or two (and they use them constantly). I use wire only when I have to so mine should last several years and they are easy to replace.
BTW, I see Tsunami now makes a wire line boat rod....I have yet to see it but I bet it will give those penn wire rods which I have (which are just so-so IMO) a run for their money. I saw a photo of them and I already like the grip. Don't know what kind of guides they have though.
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