Was looking at guides and trying to find what was in stock yesterday. Hadn’t noticed the Rec micro guides or the Cerecoil single foot guides before. Anyone have experience with them or how the sizing works? Couldn’t find any chart or size comparisons with them.

 

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Recoil guides have been out for a looong time now. I built a few fly rods with them 20 years ago now. They are definitely light. That said, a small ceramic is almost as light in the grand scheme of things.  And on fly rods, recoils ‘sing’ as you haul line. I haven’t done one with mono but I don’t see a need to either. 

I’ve only used the snakes before on flyrod. I was reading a discussion on some folks liking the single foot closer to the tip.

This had me notice the CerCoils in single foot guides which I didn’t know existed, and while looking at casting guides, I noticed the micros.. typical rabbit hole.  It all started looking at casting rods. Always did at least 2-3 small KW double foot guides before KT5’s on inshore casting. But I guess now they recommend just one RV stripper then KB singles which are strong enough to the KT. I just did a L build this way and it works, but I guess I just miss the double feet (  ) then started looking at other stuff. Own worse enemy.

The REC 4 mm have been around a long time, I have them on a CTS spinning travel rod I built 16 years ago, I don't understand how that size guide is still an enigma as they have been around since WW II time period and many in the US have used them, I have since the early 80's. A guide is a guide, they all work the same way, I've used them to 2 mm with good success. Don't go into rod building looking for boundaries because they don't exist till you make them.