Balancing your rod with the reel
I wonder how many of you take seriously the idea that the size of your reel is important in "balancing" a rod.You can reasonably conclude that I don't take such balancing seriously where casting is...
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Welcome aboard Tom. It's about time. For those of you who don't know Tom let me introduce him to you just in case you don't know him already. If you have taken the CCI test around here during conclave...
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Thanks, Jimmy. We'll see if we can have some fun here.As far as being "just and OK fisherman," mea culpa. But I thought you told me that the guide makes the client?
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Tom I don't think I've ever seen you miss a fish. J
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Welcome here Tom. Not a issue that bothers me at all, never has. Given what we had in the past weight wise as you well know trout reels to day are overall pretty light, and that is not taking into...
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Jimmy T wrote:Tom I don't think I've ever seen you miss a fish. JJimmy: It would help if you pointed out that you've actually seen me catch a fish. As opposed to, I've never seen him miss a fish,...
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Tom: Personally I think this is another hold over from the days when most rods were cane. Rods all had a lot of variance in he way they were built and tips (swing weight) were considerably heavier...
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