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| Rod Building So, you've landed a nice fish on a plug you made, eh? Now, the next step, building your own RODS! |
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04-21-2009, 07:08 PM
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Jiggin' Leper Lawyer
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: 61° 30′ 0″ N, 23° 46′ 0″ E
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Just fish it Eddie. It'll handle braid just fine, even with the oversize 70 mm Pac stripper.
Your Triflex has BNOG casting guides. Some guys report problems with braid tangling around the guide feet on those. But if you're not having problems there, you won't with the bigger guides.
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04-21-2009, 07:16 PM
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Hydro Orientated Lures
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Brockton,Ma
Posts: 8,484
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Mike P
Just fish it Eddie. It'll handle braid just fine, even with the oversize 70 mm Pac stripper.
Your Triflex has BNOG casting guides. Some guys reprot problems with braid tangling around the guide feet on those. But if you're not having problems there, you won't with the bigger guides.
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yea Mike I know its just a factory rod ,,but 3 yrs. loving the Tri-Flex..Custom rods have been staying home .. I think I might just take your advice and try as is .. Hate the weight of the big guides though ... feels top heavy and lazy.. I'm as poor as a sparrow now and would have to do it myself anyway..  ... Thanks all for advice ... |
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04-22-2009, 05:43 AM
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Respect your elvers
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: franklin ma
Posts: 3,368
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Eddie,
Drop it by my way and I can take a look at it and maybe rewrap it with smaller guides if you want. Are you looking to keep it spinning? If so its no big deal to strip and put smaller guides on provided the underwrap stays intact. I've done it with several of my other rods.
Judging by the pics, you can downsize the guides without messing up the cone of flight and the rod will work fine with braid. I speak from experience on this as I've tied up several rods with the CMS layout and used smaller guides. At least a half dozen guys on this site have 1208 spinners I've built this way. You can replace the existing guides with alconites 40-30-25-20-16-12 and the rod will work great.
Last edited by Back Beach; 04-22-2009 at 06:37 AM..
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It's not the bait
At the end of your line
It's the fishing hole
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04-22-2009, 08:01 AM
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Hydro Orientated Lures
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Brockton,Ma
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Wow ,,, Mike thanks.. means alot .. The fish are coming, I wouldn't do that to you .
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05-18-2009, 06:10 PM
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Hydro Orientated Lures
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Brockton,Ma
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Nice job Mike ,,, 1208 came to life with all that weight off it .. I think I'll get alot of use out of this stick ..
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05-31-2009, 06:48 AM
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Respect your elvers
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: franklin ma
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Tagger,
Glad it worked out for you. For anyone following this thread, we could have gone much smaller on the guides but wanted to keep the door open to the possibility of using mono. On strictly braid rods you can go way smaller on all the guides. Ed's rod lightened up big time with the alconite guides in place of the big hardoloy guides though.
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It's not the bait
At the end of your line
It's the fishing hole
Where all the fish is blind
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