Want to build a custom rod. HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!

[JohnR]

Patrick is correct about landing a nice fish on a rod that you've built yourself. Now I must take a detour here...

PATRICK, IF YOU CAN BUILD YOUR OWN ROD, DO AN INEXPENSIVE 9' CONVENTIONAL STICK LIKE A 1088!!! MATCH IT UP WITH A NICE< INEXPENSIVE REEL AND GO EELIN'

That was in reference to a Patrick post on "Success" and was not in caps to DISPLAY ANGER but for EMPHASIS. Patrick build a conventioanl eelin' rod. Get the right outfit, build it yourself and you could be in for under a hundred bucks...

Derek, my first two rods and one I assisted my friend Greg on were all made with bent coat hangers acting as the rod wrapper. Thread was guided by running through a book with a reel on top for added tension. Examples of that are in that Dale Clemens book. It was not the best way or anywhere near as convenient as a real wrapper but it works. Since then, I was given a homemade wrapper which basically used 2 long strips of aluminum rail, 4 wooden 12" posts which mounted skate board wheels on each post to spin freely (still using the book for thread tension but I'll change that soon)...

Good Luck