by JPS » Tue Dec 04, 2007 2:34 am
Paul ,
We have been doing a fair bit of work on using braid from the threadlines and one of the most important points we have identified is that runner placement on the rods is critical to:
1. Stop the tangles at the begining of the cast where the line wraps around the first stripper.
2. Ensuring that the line is chocked down quickly to allow it to flow from the reel better with reduced rod slap.
Leigh Robinson is one of our top level line casters as well as an avid rod builder and has done a lot of work with his outfits using both Low rider guides as well as standard guides. Key point is that we do not use large guides.
On the video footage at the start of this thread you may be able to see that my first stripper guide is only a no. 25 and is positioned further up the blank, also I then have the guides reducing down quickly to no. 12's.
Another thing is that we reverse the front stripper to reduce the tendancy for line wrap.
Regards :D