Light Action Spinning Rod

[Old plug]

last 5 ft rod I owned was stainless steel. most of you have never even seen one. guide were welded one.

[rps]

RPS...are you going TN handle with the tubing? Did you get arbors to fit inside the tube?

Have now built two rods for the little rig, both with TN handles and love them. They are "fat" cork TN handes, just barely turned down from the full size rings. Helps with some of the numbness I get from squeezing smaller handles.

Ned likes the shorter rods. Apparently that is how they all learned to do it back in the 60's. I like them longer, built a 7'6" and a 6'9". Also good drop shot/grub rods.

Yes I am going Tenn style. I will build arbors with epoxy saturated masking tape.

I am with Ned on the shorter rod. I once owned a Falcon Tenn handle spinning rod in a 6 foot length. I used it to fish big trout on the White below Bull Shoals. If it still existed I would drag it out to fish the Ned. It met an untimely demise some years ago. What I will build will hopefully be like that old rod.

[dtrs5kprs]

Yes I am going Tenn style. I will build arbors with epoxy saturated masking tape.

I am with Ned on the shorter rod. I once owned a Falcon Tenn handle spinning rod in a 6 foot length. I used it to fish big trout on the White below Bull Shoals. If it still existed I would drag it out to fish the Ned. It met an untimely demise some years ago. What I will build will hopefully be like that old rod.

Would like to see pics when done. Almost went the tubing way for the rod I built for my son this winter. Have an old Lews with the tubing TN handle, 5'6", and enjoyed it a lot. Of course 6' was a long rod back in the 80's.

Was curious on the arbors because I know Mudhole sells them that match the diameter of the tubing.

Ned and some others like the short rod because they focus on making shorter casts.

[rps]

I learned the masking tape trick before they came out with the carbon spacers. Provided you applly sufficient epoxy, the bond is incrediablly strong and sensitive.

BTW, the other thing I used that Tenn handle rod to do was slider fish like Charlie Brewer wrote about - a method very similar to the Ned.

[dtrs5kprs]

I learned the masking tape trick before they came out with the carbon spacers. Provided you applly sufficient epoxy, the bond is incrediablly strong and sensitive.

BTW, the other thing I used that Tenn handle rod to do was slider fish like Charlie Brewer wrote about - a method very similar to the Ned.

Yes, on both points. I also used it for hair jigs. It is still a nice little stick, just don't want to break it. Getting very close to being 30 years old.

As part of my semi-useful tackle collection, I have an old Slider catalog that features Brewer's rods in glass and graphite, 1970's vintage.

[6.5BR]

I run 5 and 5'6" Clarus UL - that feel like Light - stiffer than many/most UL - allowing me to get a good hookset, as well as fight bigger fish, and throw heavier baits. Run a Pflueger 6920 on the 5 and a Supreme MGX 8225 on the longer one. 6 P-line CX and 15 PP on the other respectively.