S-T's rod building members: Your opinions please.

[Bob Senior]

Don:

Thanks for your thoughts. I've been in touch with Nick, and also with the Whites at Hatteras Jack's in NC.

I appreciate your comments about the new concept idea. I am currently undecided about whether to pursue it, or just forget about it. That it might work keeps eating at my brain and pushing me into digging into it a little deeper. One conlcusion I've come to is that the Penn SSs have a zero degree angle of incidence to the rod. That messes up the theory because it means, technically, that there is no choke point. The implication of that is that a zero-incidence Penn will always be suboptimal in terms of casting performance (distance).

Sustains have a 4 degree angle and the resulting choke point is therefore very close to the reel. I don't know how realiable the notion is that the choke point is critical to performance.

Anyway, I'll keep thinking about it.

Thanks for your ideas.