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| I hope some of you guys watched the show today. If you didn't, try to catch it some other time. He has every fisherman's dream basement. Tons of playthings. Every lure-building gizmo you can think of and a lure test tank.
He showed how to make a mold and copy your favorite old wood lure in plastic. I don't know where he got all of the stuff, but I sure don't have the money to do it....yet.
My favorite part was when he showed something that every fisherman should have on his rods......BPS Rod Balancers! I've been using them and telling people about them for as long as they've been making them. I'll tell you again, use them, you'll love them.
This guy is crazy about fishing. He's got it in his will that he should be cremated and his ashes should be added to the mix for making certain lures. Now that might be a little fanatical, but a great idea.
Great show today if you ever work in your basement.
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Location: WI | Beaver - How big do the BPS balance kits come? do they easily fit over larger butt caps/handles?
How many ounces can you get put in them? How many ounces do you use? Thanks. | |
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| They have powder in them to help with the installation. I think that I put 4 ounces on all of my muskie rods. I have them on every rod that I own. Pitchin' for bass and jigging for walleyes, those balancers give you way more feel and sensitivity. For bigger rods, they really help offset hand, wrist and forearm fatigue.
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Location: VA | Adding weight to the butt of a rod can help with many things. It can increase feel by making the tip "light" instead of having a "heavy" tip, it can help with fatigue on some rod applications also. One thing that adding weight to a rod does not do is increase the rod blanks sensitivity. Actually it's the opposite. The more weight is added to the rod the less sensitive it becomes. A bare rod blank with nothing on it: no guides, no handle, nothing but the rod blank itself, is in it's most sensitive state that it will EVER be. Everything we add to the rod makes the rod heavier and less sensitive from that point on.
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| Well let's just say that when I balance my finesse rods for jigs for bass and walleyes, I can hold the rod with no effort at all making it easier to feel with my hand. I think that you get more sensitivity from the line than you do from the rod. When I don't have to grip the rod, it is easier for me to feel anything that the line telegraphs. Since the balancers are behind the reel seat and behind your hand, you feel the vibrations before they ever get to the butt end of the rod. | |
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Location: VA | I completely understand that concept,  and I think I used "feel" above instead of sensitivity as that same analogy just described. A tip light rod is surely more enjoyable to fish with when using lures that require you to have the rod tip up, versus down. The added weight of a rod balance kit is in the right spot on the rod like you described. Now take something like a crank bait rod where you fish with tip down most of the time, balancing it would be the wrong thing to do.
Just didn't wont folks to think that adding a balance kit to a rod is going to increase the rod blanks sensitivity, it will not. But it can help with "feel" by making the rod tip "light" in weight.
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Larry Dahlberg 2-7-09