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| One of the latest things in the bass fishing wold has been spiral wrapped rods. Has anyone tried it with a muskie rod? Is it an improvement? I dont have any experience with them, but they look sure look different. |
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| Spiral guide placement has been around for 30 or 40 years. First...most people probably don't know what you are referring to. Spiral guides move the guides underneath the rod....the first guide is at 90 degrees and the 3rd is at 180 degrees (on the bottom) and the 2nd somewhere in between.
Is it an improvement? To some degree that becomes a matter of opinion. The idea behind spiralling the guides is to reduce the number of guides needed on a casting rod and make it more "stable" when fighting fish. One of the problems with casting rods and having the guides on the top of the rod is generally you need more guides than is necessary to keep the line off the rod or to evenly distribute stress...or from slipping to the side of the rod when under heavy stress (ie, fighting a 54" muskie). Esthically it sucks....but I guess that is only a rod builders concern like me. Functionally it is a very good arrangement. You don't actually lose as much casting distance as you might think with this arrangement. The only big problem I have with this placement is line can bunch up on one side of your casting reel spool due to the uneven pressure of having the first guide at a 90 degree angle. There isn't much you can do about that and some reels probably would be fine.
For shorter, stiffer rods I wouldn't bother. But as you get a longer musky rod....say around 8 feet and over this would be a nice arrangement and actually would lessen the chance of breaking a rod.
Rods R Us,
BrianW [:bigsmile:] |
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| Thanks Doc great explanation and thanks for the input.[8)] |
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| No prob Yeti....glad I could help. I tend to get long and wordy when it comes to talking about wrapping fishing rods....it's been a passion of mine for 2 decades now. Have you seen factory rods that came with the spiral wrap?? Or have they all been customs?
Inquiring Minds Are Bored,
BrianW[:bigsmile:] |
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| Doc the ones I've seen have been custom. It seems like every other post on some of the bass boards is about it though. Very hot topic there. I'm thinking of trying my hand at rod building and have been reading all I can before I start. After seeing the stuff on the bass boards it got me thinking and figured if anyone knew of a muskie application for it someone on this board would. Thanks again
Larry |
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| You must have read Dale Clemens "Advanced Custom Rod Building".....if not it's a must. Many consider CLemens the guru of custom rod building..he goes into detail about every aspect of the rodmaking...including spiral wraps.
Wrapping is not extremetly difficult it just takes a lot of time until you've done it for a while. It also saves you a TON of grief if you can find a mentor to kind of look over your shoulder and help you at first....saves much headaches and problems.
Have Fun,
BrianW[:bigsmile:] |
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| Doc, thanks the book you recommend was also recommended yesterday by one of the guys at Corens rod & reel in chicago. He also told me that he would be happy to look over anything I wanted and give as much advice as they can. Even offered to walk me through every step. GREAT GUYS ,they had a muskie bucktail tying class last week that was alot of fun. In fact thats what got me thinking about rod building. I'm looking forward to getting started |
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