I would put the old tip back on to the shortened rod first, and see how it performs, before I began moving other guides. You might get lucky, and not have to fool with the guides.
If it doesn't fit, buy a new tip that does fit and try that.

That's a beauty!

I know what you mean about the eyesight. Twice this year I have discovered, after making a dozen or more casts, that in my pre-dawn rigging I had run the line through the gap under the tip-top guide ring on a spinning rod instead of through the ring. D'oh! :lol: Been there, done that. It happens to...

I hope you will still support the Gen 1 reels. I just bought four more Concept Z 7.3/1 right handed reels. They are amazing for casting lighter bait, like 3/8 oz cranks.

Conquest 842 putting in some work yesterday. This jack crushed my Flash Minnow as soon as it hit the water, and was a strong fighter despite the messed up tail. Towed me out a few hundred yards before I was able to tire it out. Always a fun surprise. https://i.postimg.cc/B6w18ZMj/426-FFC78-79-AA-4-...

If I get hung up and can't get it back, I tie my line off to a cleat, and use the TM to pull.... I wonder if your line cut part-way into itself at a point where it crossed over itself on a cleat, once you applied desnagging pressure; that could account for the weak spot. That is a good possibility....

Man, don't you hate it when a fish interrupts a good story!

VMC punching hooks are sharp, and they have a good, reliable keeper. I use an O ring on my baits, 3/8" down onto the nose of the bait, and pass the hook point through the nose and just past the O ring, turn the hook sideways, and pull it out until the keeper is exposed, and then turn it back to eng...

Thanks. I'll have to begin a wider search.

I still have some Orbit 80 jerkbaits, and they are deadly, plus the have a weight transfer system so they cast like a dream.
Is the company still around?

Culture has nothing to do with quality. If you but your factories under a strict quality control, anywhere in the world, you will have JDM-like products. The real problem is pinstriped businessman behind fishing companies, always putting cost-reductions above quality, for an ever growing profit. Am...

I don't see many people here fishing their gear, or, at least, talking about it.
Is there something wrong with their stuff?

tywithay wrote: ↑

Sat Jun 27, 2020 7:58 pm

I'm in the boring minority too. If I could just have everything flat black, I'd be cool with that.

I agree that black is fine, and I would be happy if that were all we had, but I do like how a different color on a certain setup makes it easier to pick out when I'm fishing.

Probably a dumb question, but couldn't you add some sort of rubber C clips to the yak so you could snap your rods into them, and they wouldn't fall out if/when you flip? Maybe with some velcro strapping?

Cal wrote: ↑

Sun Jun 21, 2020 9:01 am

Man... glad you made it to shore safely and got some of your gear back

X2!!