I don't live in your area so I may be off a bit, but there was a blank that was well received when available back in the day that looks like is still available at NFC now, the numbering is off, but the power and action should still be spot on, the P 702-1 HM appears to be a reboot of the popular Loomis P 8400, very similar to the Shakari PP 7000 that we used for dropshotting and finesse baits bac
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Sounds to me you are mixing the New Guide Concept that has been out for decades and the GPS system, they were never intended to be the same concept, the GPS has a much faster guide reduction and progression.
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Beulah makes a 3 wt. Euro.
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One 10 and the rest 6s, check the spacing charts on the NFC site, you don't have to look at all the charts just put your rod blank in the search box provided. Your guide layup is very old school when the reels were larger and higher off the rod.
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Bushido CB72 12-25.
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Backbouncing is a discription for many species, Salmon, steelhead, walleye, etc. We need more information and conditions.
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Not unheard of many guide rods are built that way for the reasons Tom mentioned.
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The comments about 16 mm seats were not for your application, but for the use of 16 mm standard pipe design reel seats. Your grip design should be fine, around 25 mm in diameter if I remember right. It's the first I have heard about discontinuing the VSS seat, it is a fairly new design, I had heard about the many decades old IPS reel seat, that came in 16- and 17-mm sizes and is similar in looks,
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You're going a bit over gunned for Mahi, my TLD 20 is way more than I ever needed. Get with Thrasher Rods and have them recommend one of their US built blanks that are a great value also. Sold my Mahi rod long ago, think it had a 10 inch eva rear grip, standard nylon pipe 20 mm reel seat, 8 or 10 inch foregrip, no gimbal needed, rubber doorknob butt cap.
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Wiebe/ Super Sticker reel seat uplocking with a custom shaped fore grip with a smaller than normal diameter rear grip to make it look sleeker, a piece of cake. Mr. Timberlake wrote an article on a similar hand build using a Tennessee grip slip ring and a threaded section off a reel seat. Called it the skull and cross bones or something like that seat. The mid cork sections are still available at
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If you are a beginner in building and fishing buy the carbon blanks. if you are an experienced angler than many will go more towards the Judge, a composite or a LS for cranks. Being an intermediate bass angler and not likely to improve in this lifetime, I have carbon 8 ft. rods and my 6 1/2 - 7 ft. rods are S Glass. Keeping fish on can be easier with a glass rod.
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Rarely are there absolute separate spacing charts for each model, mostly you will see the same spacing for all models in a series and just the guide sizes change as needed. If you look at their charts there many times rods three inches shorter or longer will have the same guides and spacing. The very reason I never use them, I do a static distribution test every time.
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The Pac Bay guides in my experience were a bit better, their coatings were titanium compounds to get the color they wanted, at least that was how the owner described it to me maybe 15 years ago. D & E rods has him make some gold on gold ceramic ring guides many years ago and one of my built rods has seen salt from time to time with no ill effects last I heard, maybe 5-6 years ago. Think I sti
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The Fuji is a standard pipe style spinning/casting reel seat, copied by many others, not pretty but very effective, reliable and inexpensive.
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I'd be surprised if it already doesn't have an aluminum lube inside the wood and reel seat, most of the old rods like that I have been around do, when brought in for repair.
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Lots of negative reviews at Johnny's Pond and the site hasn't been touched for a decade. Flex Coat has a four.
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Easily the nicest Spey reel seat I ever used was a Spey sized uplocking Ferguson reel seat from Bellinger many years ago, the second was a Snake Brand Spey seat, the insert variety on both was large.
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Put an arbor inside the hollow threaded area, problem solved. not all reel seats of this type were built hollow in the threaded area, many had little light weight fins inside already sized to the rest of the seat and others were just a solid interior the size of the seat bore.
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Looks like a SeaGuide AirK seat to me, bet they have an insert for it. Rodbuilders Warehouse to the left.
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Remember the tube you use now becomes the ID of the reel seat; it will be in the neighborhood of 13 mm on the 16 mm seat. Don't forget the nut, I would get it from the same place as the tube to cut shipping costs if possible.
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My 6 ft. casting straight grips are 6 inches long. Now days I think 7 inch is much easier to find and, in many materials, I don't think would make a tinker's bit of difference.
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If you're interested the then owner of Pac Bay assured me the Ti Bronze guides would hold up very well and so far, they have over the last 12 years or more on the Super Seeker salmon rod blank I put them on.
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Chris, I would go to the boss Bill Falconer, bfalconer@anglersreource.net
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Roque P 705-2, 8 - 17 lb. line, 1/4 to 5/8 oz. lures, 5 tip, .495" butt, XF action. I've cast less than 1/4 oz. with it, the tip is lighter and faster than my other like powered popping rods, a Loomis P844 GLX 4 power and Lamiglas IM700 IMP 844, 4 power., butt power about the same on all, the Lamiglas is rated 3/8 - 3/4 oz. Unhide your email and I can send you a copy of the Rogue catalog,
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There are bronze colored fly guides around, but the matching stripper could be an extended search.
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I have two Rogue blanks left that are two piece popping blanks with extra fast, soft tips. 4 power rated can look up specs if you are interested.
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Spiral wraps are perfect for 4 piece rods and a huge amount of float rods over the years were built on 4 piece spey blanks. I would be more concerned about a guides on top rod 4 piece rod. My 4 piece, salmon rods are all spiral wrapped, they produce a no torque, stable platform a guides on top rod can never give you. If alignment is your concern, just put alignment indicators on the blank like m
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Is it a glass blank? 0.8+" butt, 7 tip, 1/8" butt wall thickness.
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My favorite guides are Snake brand universal guides, if you are concerned about aesthetics, they also sell matching ceramics. I have never had a guide from them that wasn't perfect and ready to wrap. Ron Weber at Southwest Custom Rods for a Lemke seat and an expanded selection of inserts including acrylics. My favorite production cork grips are no longer available, if you want to go new school, t
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We were still using cork life rafts made in WW II when our ships I was on were built in the 80's. The only thing we replaced was the cloth bottom and strapping from time to time.
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