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The size 16 butt guide will work less well with fluoro than braid as fluoro is much harder to "tame" at the first guide. For 6 lb fluoro you should be fine. Much heavier than that I would do a size 20 butt guide. The size 16 butt guide will work less well with fluoro than braid as fluoro is much harder to "tame" at the first guide. For 6 lb fluoro you should be fine. Much heavier than that I would do a size 20 butt guide. The size 16 butt guide will work less well with fluoro than braid as fluoro is much harder to "tame" at the first guide. For 6 lb fluoro you should be fine. Much heavier than that I would do a size 20 butt guide. The size 16 butt guide will work less well with fluoro than braid as fluoro is much harder to "tame" at the first guide. For 6 lb fluoro you should be fine. Much heavier than that I would do a size 20 butt guide.

I actually wouldn't get a kit. It's a nice way to get everything, but it removes the effort and learning involved to pick components. Also I hate the giant heavy guides they tend to come with. I would pick a nice but inexpensive blank (rainshadow rx6, mudhole crb) and get a set of Fuji fazlite KR system guides so you can learn how they work. Then pick whatever reel seat and handle you like. Nothing wrong with kits, but for spinning rods at least I think the guides they come with really hurt the performance of a rod.

Yes, the K2 range is overstated at the top end. They fish lighter than rated.

If you run braid 10 lb or less, and can tie an FG knot for the leader, you can run guides 16H 8H 5.5L to size 4 runners. I also find the VSS (or IPS) seats very comfortable and would go that direction. KR guide concept is the best by far when it comes to saving weight.

Fuji titanium torzite are the lightest guides at each size, lighter than recoils (better too). You need to put on a comfortable reel seat. Weight there doesn't really matter, and there is nothing worse than an uncomfortable reel seat. The lightest blanks are the elite x mentioned above, point blank, phenix k2, and nfc xray. Stated weight may not match actual weight