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TIP HEAVY-What Does This Mean???

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in Fishing Rods, Reels, Line, and Knots

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Sorry to sound ignorant, but I'm not sure what a tip heavy rod means.

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    • Super User

    The tip feels heavier than the butt.

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    • Super User

    An unbalanced rod.  It's like when you're trying to hold your rod tip up, as alot of plastics/jig fishermen do, and the tip wants to drop down towards the water.  Like Burley said, the tip feels heavy.  A heavier reel will help combat this.

    Some of the splitgrip and/or removed forgrip rods are guilty of this.

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    You can also counter this by adding weight to the butt of the rod.  Check out BPS online catalog and they carry a generic cap and weights that allow you to balance a rod nicely.

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    Some of the splitgrip and/or removed forgrip rods are guilty of this.

    Not if you have Reel Mech build it!  ;)  

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    Some of the splitgrip and/or removed forgrip rods are guilty of this.

    Not if you have Reel Mech build it!  ;)  

    or alpster!!  ;D

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