spiral/acid wrapped rods - Kayak Fishing Adventures on Big Water’s Edge

taggermike · 02-20-2012, 05:51 PM

Evedently the spiral wrap comes in and out favor and has done so for many years. The primary purpose is to stabilize the rod when fighting a fish and eliminate any rolling of the reel and rod. This has never been a problem for me but I did spiral wrap a rod a few years ago just to see how it would look and perform. Looked cool/strange and performed well. The reel is deffinately rock solid on top of the rod when I pull on fish. This rod also seems to cast just as well as other rods I have. It was a bit more difficult to wrap the guides on and around and if I make another rod it will not be a spiral. Mostly you get funny looks and coments about mis-alligned 2 piece rods when you get on a party boat. Mike

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02-20-2012, 05:51 PM	#5
taggermike Senior Member Join Date: May 2007 Location: Chula Vista Posts: 1,589	Evedently the spiral wrap comes in and out favor and has done so for many years. The primary purpose is to stabilize the rod when fighting a fish and eliminate any rolling of the reel and rod. This has never been a problem for me but I did spiral wrap a rod a few years ago just to see how it would look and perform. Looked cool/strange and performed well. The reel is deffinately rock solid on top of the rod when I pull on fish. This rod also seems to cast just as well as other rods I have. It was a bit more difficult to wrap the guides on and around and if I make another rod it will not be a spiral. Mostly you get funny looks and coments about mis-alligned 2 piece rods when you get on a party boat. Mike