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View PostLooks like they would be quite an advantage, but dont hear or see anyone using them? Do they just not cast as far as conventional guided rods?

 

 

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I think those rods are cool (never owned or handled one) but they do have their drawbacks.

They are not a popular, widely used rod.

They can become clogged with seaweed.

To thread the line through the rod, a "threading tool" is needed, some sort of stiff implement to get the fishing line through.

Search the archives for discussion of the interlines.

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Pain in the ass to thread when not at home, particularly at night. On freshwater light action rods, tips tend to be a little too heavy as you need a big enough hollow space to get the threading tool through. Otherwise they're pretty neat. I do own a couple and enjoyed fishing them with braided line at night in a boat; never have to worry about the braid wrapping around the rod tip or a guide. They cast fine; can't say that I get more or less distance than with a conventional rod because it's pretty hard to find a conventional rod that has comparable action. Don't think there's much of an impact on distance. The other advantage is that you don't get the tip torque on the rod tip when you've got a big fish on as you do on a conventional rod; pretty much the same as a spinning rod or spiral wrapped conventional rod. Of course, for surf rods that's probably not much of an issue anyway.

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They're pretty, work fine except:

 

They require a wire to thread the line through and it gets lost easily. They get clogged with crud while fishing and every creepy crawly that makes a web will set up housekeeping inside one. The voice of experience.

 

I'm reminded of a cartoon of some years back of an angler with a bowed rod with no line on it.

 

The caption read: 'I tried lighter and lighter line until I got to using no line at all'.smile.gif

 

These rodbuilders using smaller and smaller guides may get to using 'no guides at all' Think about it. C2

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In japan they have a few models for fw some of them get pretty pricey. Over here they have a couple, and two different models in the surf lineup. I had an 9 footer which was stoopid light. Cast like a dream, and no doubt was the most sensitive rod I'd ever used on the beach. It was able to whoop a 48lb 48" bass in under ten minutes.

Unfortunately I found 5 major drawbacks.

 

1.... tip top guide is very exposed and needed replacement regulary, as it chipped easily. Whether from the tap tap tap on the windshield or from jetty rocks I have to replace it quite often. To give you an idea, since I stopped using it 6 years ago never once did I have a problem with any traditionally built rods.

 

2 I wears out braid and fireline much quicker. Ther is very littly friction on the cast but on the retrieve, the second there is a bend in the rod the line just rubs on so many different contact points, it quickly wears down any coatings put on the line and after a few hundred casts your line would get quite fuzzy. (not bad for fireline but death to braid) whether its the raised spirals that causes this or dried salt deposits, it couldn't really tell.

 

3. The tip top holds water and the inside of if will corrode damaging the line.

 

4 If you don't have heavy mono or a device to thread it good luck. I don't think its necessary, or proper to describe the best method to thread it if you don't have the right tool to do it.

 

5 Although the exit point of the guide is large enough to pass a small knot, the portion behind the ring which it enters the blank will catch a uni to uni with 50 to 50 pound power pro. ((( EPIC FAIL))

No way in hell could it pass a 50lb + shocker

 

Hope this helps.

 

I do however love the cabelas versions I bought years ago for freshwater trolling.

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View PostI like them because they are so slick looking, no guides, just a blank.

 

Sleek and clean.

 

Didn't know they were selling.

 

Haven't seen 'em in catalogs.

 

I see them on a regular basis, enough to know that people are buying them.

 

 

You gave me another reason not to like them though, getting cloged? Sounds more like a gun than something you fish with.

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Saw some in Europe for top dollar/Euro. Too gimmicky.

@ least a Sabiki rod serves the purpose of storing your rig.

What are the Pros vs Cons with that type of rod?

(Pros?)

1.Eliminate tangles in a rod locker when NOT fishing? get a rod sock

2.Eliminate guide snags/tangles? loss of parabolic-ness

3........

Guess it's for the "Look @ me I'm different" crowd.

Im going to design a rod where your line goes through a series of external crazy straw tubes in a vine like manner to the tip.

Just cause! Some one will buy it.

I'd make it light up too.

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View PostIn japan they have a few models for fw some of them get pretty pricey. Over here they have a couple, and two different models in the surf lineup. I had an 9 footer which was stoopid light. Cast like a dream, and no doubt was the most sensitive rod I'd ever used on the beach. It was able to whoop a 48lb 48" bass in under ten minutes.

Unfortunately I found 5 major drawbacks.

 

1.... tip top guide is very exposed and needed replacement regulary, as it chipped easily. Whether from the tap tap tap on the windshield or from jetty rocks I have to replace it quite often. To give you an idea, since I stopped using it 6 years ago never once did I have a problem with any traditionally built rods.

 

2 I wears out braid and fireline much quicker. Ther is very littly friction on the cast but on the retrieve, the second there is a bend in the rod the line just rubs on so many different contact points, it quickly wears down any coatings put on the line and after a few hundred casts your line would get quite fuzzy. (not bad for fireline but death to braid) whether its the raised spirals that causes this or dried salt deposits, it couldn't really tell.

 

3. The tip top holds water and the inside of if will corrode damaging the line.

 

4 If you don't have heavy mono or a device to thread it good luck. I don't think its necessary, or proper to describe the best method to thread it if you don't have the right tool to do it.

 

5 Although the exit point of the guide is large enough to pass a small knot, the portion behind the ring which it enters the blank will catch a uni to uni with 50 to 50 pound power pro. ((( EPIC FAIL))

No way in hell could it pass a 50lb + shocker

 

Hope this helps.

 

I do however love the cabelas versions I bought years ago for freshwater trolling.

 

 

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From the mouth of an expert.

Only place I ever saw interlines was in the Cabela's catalog.

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View PostLooks like they would be quite an advantage, but dont hear or see anyone using them? Do they just not cast as far as conventional guided rods?

 

 

Check THESE rods out Snapperhead:

 

Look how slick they are!

 

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WOW!!!!!!!!!!!What a bunch of beautiful rods!!!!!!!!! Thanks for giving pictures as asked. Those rods look so slick........very cool. Sorry you don't have so many big fish where you are. My surmise (and that's all it is) is that many many people live near the shore...and many fish get caught...ergo the pickings get smaller. Hope you catch a monster

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I have one been using it for 7 years now. I throw 6 to 8 once with it caught many fish with it and use 50lbs power pro.I have never had a problem with it never wears the line down and the tip is still original.If you thread it just use 50lbs mono easy enuff I do it at night.I also use a pen 975 on it.It's a fun rod to use.same casting distance as my conv. If you can find one cheap I would get it.

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View PostI have one been using it for 7 years now. I throw 6 to 8 once with it caught many fish with it and use 50lbs power pro.I have never had a problem with it never wears the line down and the tip is still original.If you thread it just use 50lbs mono easy enuff I do it at night.I also use a pen 975 on it.It's a fun rod to use.same casting distance as my conv. If you can find one cheap I would get it.

 

 

Somewhere along the line (bad punredface.gif ) I read about using stiff mono as a threader.

IIRC, the OEM threader, whatever it was made of, metal wire or polymer, did come coiled.

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