Micro eyes

[abkeenan]

Only rod that I own that has micro guides is my Duckett Ghost. Lots of people complain about inserts that fall out of micro guides in just about every brand of rod. The Duckett Ghost has no ceramic insert and is just a hardened chrome coated stainless steel guide. It's good in that sense that no insert can fall out.  But, if you throw braid then the Ghost is probably a bad choice as the braid would eventually cut grooves into the eyelets and you would have to replace all the guides. I only throw mono or fluoro so that shouldn't be an issue for me.

When micro's came out they said there was less "line slap" against the guides and the blank which resulted in less friction and better flow of line through the guides translating into longer casts. That all being said I don't think there is any difference in performance between standard and micro from what I can tell. If there is I would assume it is negligible. The Ghost has micro guides and the Falcon BuCoo has smaller than standard guides. My Ghost and my BuCoo are two of the most comfortable rods that I own. Not sure if that is due to the fact of the reduced weight of the guides or because the blanks themselves are just lighter and better balanced? Not really sure what I am getting at but I wouldn't pay more to have a micro guide model than a standard guide model.

[Champ188]

Line slap must be the tekneekul term for what I said earlier ... wallering around.