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Hating Micro-guides #12646370 02/25/18 09:53 PM
Joined: Feb 2014 Posts: 1,508 Coppell, TX P Phototex OP Extreme Angler
OP Phototex Extreme Angler P Joined: Feb 2014 Posts: 1,508 Coppell, TX	I have a 7.5-foot BPS baitcasting rod that came with 10 micro-guides and a tip on a MH, fast tip blank. I�m sick of the tiny guides, and want to re-wrap it with �regular� ones, but don�t know how many guides to use. 10 seems too many to me. Any ideas? PB: 10-01 on a Ribbit frog

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Re: Hating Micro-guides [Re: Phototex] #12646374 02/25/18 09:57 PM
Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 12,647 Confusion, Tx J JIM SR. TFF Guru
JIM SR. TFF Guru J Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 12,647 Confusion, Tx	seven sounds good to me,..about one a foot...just guessing. www.boatlanes.com http://407bbq.com/ http://www.lakeforkcrappie.com/ https://www.jiglyf.com/ Pronounced "Jig Life" https://shut-up-and-fish.com/ https://kidkrappie.com/

Re: Hating Micro-guides [Re: Phototex] #12646435 02/25/18 10:47 PM
Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 13,764 Trenton, Tx Ken A. Groovy
Ken A. Groovy Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 13,764 Trenton, Tx	Unless you really like that Rod it would be money well spent to sell it and buy a different rod without the micro guides. I have wrapped a few rods in my day and it is a time-consuming thing. If you have a professional do it they charge about $15-$20 per guide.

Re: Hating Micro-guides [Re: Phototex] #12646454 02/25/18 11:00 PM
Joined: Feb 2014 Posts: 1,508 Coppell, TX P Phototex OP Extreme Angler
OP Phototex Extreme Angler P Joined: Feb 2014 Posts: 1,508 Coppell, TX	Ken, I definitely understand where you're coming from. wrapping rods can be a complete pain in the patoot. However, when I lived in Washington many years ago, I wrapped all of my own rods, and became pretty good at it - even sold a few. Not much else to do up in those parts when all the lakes are ice-covered,other than make, repair, and clean your tackle. PB: 10-01 on a Ribbit frog

Re: Hating Micro-guides [Re: Phototex] #12646528 02/25/18 11:42 PM
Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 948 Plano, Texas 0 007. Pro Angler
007. Pro Angler 0 Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 948 Plano, Texas	10 doesn't sound like to many to me on 7'-6" rod. This chart may help you decide. https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1863/0...927623778265298

Re: Hating Micro-guides [Re: Phototex] #12646530 02/25/18 11:43 PM
Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 13,764 Trenton, Tx Ken A. Groovy
Ken A. Groovy Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 13,764 Trenton, Tx	Originally Posted By: Phototex Ken, I definitely understand where you're coming from. wrapping rods can be a complete pain in the patoot. However, when I lived in Washington many years ago, I wrapped all of my own rods, and became pretty good at it - even sold a few. Not much else to do up in those parts when all the lakes are ice-covered,other than make, repair, and clean your tackle. Understood. I will admit there is a lot of satisfaction to wrapping your own once you are finished. My eyeballs are not as good as they used to be!

Re: Hating Micro-guides [Re: Phototex] #12646676 02/26/18 12:51 AM
Joined: Aug 2013 Posts: 2,259 Watauga,Texas KC Injection Baits Extreme Angler
KC Injection Baits Extreme Angler Joined: Aug 2013 Posts: 2,259 Watauga,Texas	Just remember you will not be putting all double footed a frames back in the same place there will be some fly guides.And when you remove a guide the finish on the rod is gone, that's why you put a guide back in the same place.

Re: Hating Micro-guides [Re: Phototex] #12646778 02/26/18 01:39 AM
Joined: Jun 2007 Posts: 428 Hawkins, Texas R rscustomrods Angler
rscustomrods Angler R Joined: Jun 2007 Posts: 428 Hawkins, Texas	Just run double foot to start and go down to single foot on the. Last couple. Some of the big rod builders do that too. That way you can still use ten. It will not hurt anything. I also agree on micros. Had one rod with micros. Hated it, stripped it, and re did the guides myself.

Re: Hating Micro-guides [Re: Phototex] #12646792 02/26/18 01:44 AM
Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 13,764 Trenton, Tx Ken A. Groovy
Ken A. Groovy Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 13,764 Trenton, Tx	Not sure why y'all hate the micro guides. I have a couple Duckett Ice rods with micro guides and I like em. One is a 7' 11" cranking rod for big deepdivers and the other is a 7' MH worm/jig rod. The first one I bought I thought the extra guides and their small size would inhibit my casting distance but I can launch a 6XD or DD22 with it. Are y'all using braid to mono or braid to fluoro trying to get a knot to got thru them? Last edited by Ken A.; 02/26/18 01:46 AM.

Re: Hating Micro-guides [Re: Phototex] #12646829 02/26/18 02:00 AM
Joined: Aug 2013 Posts: 2,259 Watauga,Texas KC Injection Baits Extreme Angler
KC Injection Baits Extreme Angler Joined: Aug 2013 Posts: 2,259 Watauga,Texas	If there using braid to flo just use a Alberto knot it will go right through the guides. Learn to respect your rods don�t step on them and use rod socks get Reid of those tubes in your rod box. I repair a lot of rods for people and they just destroy them it�s ashame.

Re: Hating Micro-guides [Re: Phototex] #12646926 02/26/18 03:03 AM
Joined: May 2011 Posts: 1,903 abilene,texas P pil,b Extreme Angler
pil,b Extreme Angler P Joined: May 2011 Posts: 1,903 abilene,texas	Should be a law against making a rod without the stainless recoil guides

Re: Hating Micro-guides [Re: Phototex] #12646973 02/26/18 03:44 AM
Joined: Aug 2013 Posts: 2,259 Watauga,Texas KC Injection Baits Extreme Angler
KC Injection Baits Extreme Angler Joined: Aug 2013 Posts: 2,259 Watauga,Texas	Go to Mud Hole and look at the price of recoil guides and you might change your mind.

Re: Hating Micro-guides [Re: Phototex] #12649659 02/27/18 07:33 PM
Joined: Jul 2012 Posts: 112 O onfork Outdoorsman
onfork Outdoorsman O Joined: Jul 2012 Posts: 112	I have some kistler rods with what they call macro guides just a little bigger than micro guides but easier to deal with ,I like them much better than the few rods I have with micro guides.

Re: Hating Micro-guides [Re: onfork] #12649661 02/27/18 07:35 PM
Joined: May 2007 Posts: 45,049 W WAWI TFF Guru
WAWI TFF Guru W Joined: May 2007 Posts: 45,049	Originally Posted By: onfork I have some kistler rods with what they call macro guides just a little bigger than micro guides but easier to deal with ,I like them much better than the few rods I have with micro guides. Love my kistlers but those guides are pos non stop replacing them

Re: Hating Micro-guides [Re: Phototex] #12649783 02/27/18 08:49 PM
Joined: Jul 2014 Posts: 1,989 Arlington Texas SAKS Extreme Angler
SAKS Extreme Angler Joined: Jul 2014 Posts: 1,989 Arlington Texas	If you want smaller guides but not micro just switch them to a #5 guide. I had Kevin (Shamrock) redo a couple of Falcon Caras and that is what we went with. Has worked out great. As far as the number of guides I can't help with that. I think Mud Hole might have some guidelines on their site or maybe contact Kevin Smith (goes by KVS on here) and see if he can give you some help with that question.

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