"Acid wrap" ?

[fishaholic18]

Chris, i was just thinking about this more, reason some guys off set the 1st guide to left is to make it easier to level the line on the reel with your thumb an non level wind reels of course.

[Fishaddict]

I spiral all of my conventional rods. Get a lot of weird looks and comments, but thats okay. I aslo off-set my stripper guide about 30 degrees to the left. It does make it a lot easier to thumb the line back onto a nonlevel wind reel. Just guied the line to the right, and it automatically goes back to the left on it's own. Some say the off-set stripper will cause the line to pile up on the left side of the reel when you use a level wind, but I have never had that problem. Give spiral wrapping a try, you just might find something you really like.

[striperondafly]

Me too - all conventionals I do are spiral.

Once I landed my first bass on my own spiral I was sold. The advantage of the reduced torque really comes into play when you fight a strong fish like a 40-85lb class Black Drum or any good sized Tuna - heck anything that fights like a bulldog.

Fishaholic - you explained it VERY well!!!!! Sometimes when I try to explain it to others they look at me like I'm speaking French oke:

I have read one negative thing. I read on a rodbuilding forum awhile back that the blank receives the torque instead of you and it can cause "premature" blank failure. Note - they author fights giant bluefin - he wasn't talking about striper rods or tog. He had a few bust on bruisers where he felt it was the design that caused the failure.

[fishaholic18]

Originally Posted by striperondafly

I have read one negative thing. I read on a rodbuilding forum awhile back that the blank receives the torque instead of you and it can cause "premature" blank failure. Note - they author fights giant bluefin - he wasn't talking about striper rods or tog. He had a few bust on bruisers where he felt it was the design that caused the failure.

Now that's interesting... Have to look into that.