EvanT123

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Good question. Hopefully some NRX owners will be along to comment. I don't own an NRX but right before the season ended built a spinning rod with alconite reduction guides, size 2 recoil fly guides and a size 6 alconite top (has almost the same inner diameter as the recoils but could have gone a size smaller on the recoils). The rod is Layed out in the new guide concept and I paid particular attention to a proper spacing on the runners. Know what? Many times when I release the bail on the reel and have the bait drop down, it hangs up. This caused me great concern as I spent a great deal of time and effort to put this together. The reality I made it a point to cast a variety of baits from 1/8 tubes and drop shots to flukes and 5/8 topwaters and the rod never hung up on the cast and cast's great. Long sorry short if you like the rod and it's a great price, buy it. You can always sell it down the road.

I read a lot about tip heavy rods and have begun to wonder why? In a few recent posts there have been mentions of stcroixs over 7 feet as tip heavy. The heaviest st croix I own is a 7'medium spinning rod. It's actually the stoutest rod I own and I built it with a short handle as I felt my factory 7mlf handle was to long. It has a 8oz reel on it and feels nice in hand. So back to my question how and what makes a rod tip heavy?

Hiking with this guy and.... Putting these together help keep me busy.

Thanks I will look into them. The juniors go for about 3x more on the auction site.

A great tool to have in rod building is a vernier calipers. You can use them to measure many related things including rod guides. The second part I'll let the more experienced guys answer.

Is that a Jr. model?

In rod building you can have almost anything you want. You will obviously need to have the guides removed and then rewarped in a spiral fashion. It can be done but you gotta pay to play.

Sorry to hear about your dog. Your a wrestler right? I'd suplex my cousin.

Veritas

Yellow. It's easy for me too see.

Or the deal for a supreme for 37+tax at dicks. Man talk about a deal.

Look at that auction site for procyons.

Great question. Everyone does things different. I just purchased. 25 3/0 ewg 25 1/0 offsett worm hook 25 1 drop shot hooks Ball, football, tube and mushroom heads 1/8-1/4oz Probably over 200 hooks. I might loose 4-10 a trip but if I can't hook something. Help me.

I'm pretty sure jfrancho posted this awhile back. It among other things is on my reading nightstand. A good read that is still relavent today. I believe there is also a new version if you can use google. http://www.richz.com/fishing/articles/finesse_87_in-fish.pdf

That looks sweet. Let us know if that new spool puts some new life in that old girl.

I caught the fish in my avatar on a split shot rig. 5'6 light action rod and tiny trout reel. Lots of fun. I don't fish the split shot much anymore but usually just did a slow hop and drag retrieve. Really you could retrieve it many ways. With a grub who knows a slow steady retrieve might be the ticket.

The fish know the difference

Big game, suffix and/or power pro. Don't over look wal-Marts free ship to store.

Daiwa company just introduced a new legalis model. It looks like a sweet one.$60 and some of Daiwa's most well known features.

In my opinion at.croix offers some of the best bang for the buck value in fishing rods. You just have to put them together yourself

I'd have to say my stradic fj but a daiwa ss is on the list to try.

About the only thing I won't buy used are socks and underware.

Bling bling

I don't like to spend a lot on tube jigs. Usually fish 1/8-1/4 tube jig heads with eagle claw hooks and the cheapest tubes I can find at any given moments. Like green, orange and maybe a black or smoke. It works for me. Sorry missed a few points. Usually have a 1/0 or 2/0 hook on the jig head. One of the best tips I've heard here on br; don't push the jig head all the way to the top of the tube leave a small gap at the top. It should help from snagging so much.