micro guide question

[corey90]

building a new rod and usually use larger guides im going to start out with the fuji double foot lvr guide then two #5 kb belly guide and then 8-9 #4.5 kt guide to the #4.5 tip top all titanium frame sic for lighter weight. is this a good set up on a 7'6" heavy fast blank for carolina rigs using 15 pound seagaur flouro

[casts_by_fly]

If you’re not going to fish any braid to leader then you’re fine. You don’t even really need the pair of 5’s. A single 10, 5, and then the 4.5’s the rest of the way is fine. Then again, we’re splitting hairs at that point. 

[MickD]

With a premium braid of less than 20 pound test and FC leader of about 15 pound test those guides will pass an Alberto just fine.  I do it with 4's. 

[Lead Head]

Your layout looks fine. I usually build 10, 7kb, 5kb, then 5kt for the rest. The 7kb is for esthetics, not performance. 

 

For what it's worth, I go as big as 50lb 832 to a 25lb sunline sniper leader through #5 guides. 

[spoonplugger1]

Many exaggerate the amount of room your line and well tied small knot really need, a size 8 running guide was the norm when I built my first rod and we weren't using nothing but straight mono. An illustration of what 50 lb. mono looks like in a 3 mm guide. Really want to know what works, try it, the guides are a buck a piece and you don't have to build it to try it, just tape the guides on and test cast, I have taped entire rods together to test cast, it works.