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Harrison 13ft SU 2piece

Jim Gregory

Jim Gregory

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Hi chaps I'm having one built and am undecided on the seat, for pin fishing, what are your thoughts please.
Jim
 
I like screw down reel seats.
I like a mix of materials too.
I like duplon foregrips and cork in the middle and duplon on the rear. It feels great it looks great and it just works really well with float rods.
The handle on the new supera X is wonderful but unfortunately a builder isn’t going to replicate its shape. However I have had a lot of handles built buy builders and I think the best realistic option to get done is to go with a normark approach.
Duplon forgrip, Fuji kdps or IPS seat, 8-12 inch of cork, flared duplon rear grip and a button cap.
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I generally prefer a screw down reel seat but I find they loosen in use. I don’t know why, I don’t really touch the fore grip much. I still prefer them to any other reel seat though.

Now I am right handed and they loosen for me. I just wondered, do other right handed anglers find they loosen, and do left handed anglers also find the same. Just trying to find out if a left hand thread might be useful, not that I could influence any suppliers.
 
Ralph Harris said:
I generally prefer a screw down reel seat but I find they loosen in use. I don’t know why, I don’t really touch the fore grip much. I still prefer them to any other reel seat though.

Now I am right handed and they loosen for me. I just wondered, do other right handed anglers find they loosen, and do left handed anglers also find the same. Just trying to find out if a left hand thread might be useful, not that I could influence any suppliers.
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The only reel seats I ever had a problem with coming loose were carbon ones made by free spirit. These were screw up and they drove me mad.
Carbon is a terrible material in my opinion for making a locking thread. It’s got no grip whatsoever and the locking rings on my rods where consistently letting go. It did it on my barbel rods and my float rod all with this same carbon reel seat.
I’ve Never found a Fuji to do this. Screw up or screw down
 
Richard Isaacs said:
The only reel seats I ever had a problem with coming loose were carbon ones made by free spirit. These were screw up and they drove me mad.
Carbon is a terrible material in my opinion for making a locking thread. It’s got no grip whatsoever and the locking rings on my rods where consistently letting go. It did it on my barbel rods and my float rod all with this same carbon reel seat.
I’ve Never found a Fuji to do this. Screw up or screw down
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Perhaps I don’t do them up tight enough in the first place. I had a Nash specialist rod where the cork foregrip detached from the threaded tube of the screw down seat. So perhaps I’m wary of applying force.
 
Richard Isaacs said:
I like screw down reel seats.
I like a mix of materials too.
I like duplon foregrips and cork in the middle and duplon on the rear. It feels great it looks great and it just works really well with float rods.
The handle on the new supera X is wonderful but unfortunately a builder isn’t going to replicate its shape. However I have had a lot of handles built buy builders and I think the best realistic option to get done is to go with a normark approach.
Duplon forgrip, Fuji kdps or IPS seat, 8-12 inch of cork, flared duplon rear grip and a button cap. View attachment 34132
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To much going on for my liking with them buts especially the 2 on the right full cork or abbreviated for me
 
Chris Jones said:
That's the first time I've seen or heard an advocate for an abbreviated handle on a float rod.
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Sonik Xtractor+ Specialist Float Rod

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Well, there you go, I have no idea why they call it a float rod though.
 
Huanzhou Zhu said:
www.anglingdirect.co.uk

Sonik Xtractor+ Specialist Float Rod

Key FeaturesHigh modulus C6 carbon construction Super tough RAW-Carbon blank finish Proven and trusted XTRACTOR action; slim, light, with progressive power Super-light M-SERIES DL black guides Hard wearing anti-frap ceramic tip ring VARI-TAPER joint construction Deluxe matt black DPS reel seat...
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Well, there you go, I have no idea why they call it a float rod though.
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Pedantic point of order, that's not an abbreviated handle. I also didn't say that I'd never seen an abbreviated handle on a float rod. I have, I've just never seen or heard of anyone actually wanting one (or one like the link with a shrink wrap handle, though I suspect it might work better than abbreviated).
 
Richard Isaacs said:
The only reel seats I ever had a problem with coming loose were carbon ones made by free spirit. These were screw up and they drove me mad.
Carbon is a terrible material in my opinion for making a locking thread. It’s got no grip whatsoever and the locking rings on my rods where consistently letting go. It did it on my barbel rods and my float rod all with this same carbon reel seat.
I’ve Never found a Fuji to do this. Screw up or screw down
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I have a very nice browning silverlite pro feeder. It's got a nice reel seat, American, I think, screw up and double locking rings. . They cone loose too! Ha.
 
Huanzhou Zhu said:
www.anglingdirect.co.uk

Sonik Xtractor+ Specialist Float Rod

Key FeaturesHigh modulus C6 carbon construction Super tough RAW-Carbon blank finish Proven and trusted XTRACTOR action; slim, light, with progressive power Super-light M-SERIES DL black guides Hard wearing anti-frap ceramic tip ring VARI-TAPER joint construction Deluxe matt black DPS reel seat...
www.anglingdirect.co.uk www.anglingdirect.co.uk

Well, there you go, I have no idea why they call it a float rod though.
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There is nothing about that rod that would suggest to me it’s anything like what I would call a float rod. 8 double leg specialist type guides on an extendable 10ft blank with a skinny shrink rapped handle would limit its capacity to a potential big fish waggler margin type rod at the very most and even then I personally would consider 100 other options before it
Paint the tip white and I bet you’ve got something much more useful as a small river stalking/rolling type rod
 
Your right about shifting unwanted weight Richard, at 161gramms, you would think it would suggest it being nose heavy.
Still very light tho.
 
Jim Gregory said:
Your right about shifting unwanted weight Richard, at 161gramms, you would think it would suggest it being nose heavy.
Still very light tho.
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To be honest the weight figure on that rod is practically irrelevant to me. At 10ft long I can’t see it being remotely noticeable on its nose with any handle configuration

Imo 160g at 10ft isn’t particularly light anyway whether it’s relevant or not.
You are right though a full cork handle on it probably would take it closer to the 190-200 mark.
 
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