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February 25th, 2004, 03:55 PM
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Handle Design?
"Vincent." wrote in message
... To me, it looks like a marketing ploy. I could easily build something like that, but I wouldn't want to risk having a reel come loose under pressure. The weight of a good graphite reel seat is negligible and you'll have a hard time convincing me otherwise. -- Steve @ OutdoorFrontiers http://www.outdoorfrontiers.com G & S Guide Service and Custom Rods http://www.herefishyfishy.com For other reasons, I'm agree with you... I feared not that the reel come loose under pressure but that the rubber rings move in time and that we have offen to put it back in place... I had such a handle systeme for on a spinning rod... I had to roll it up with adhitive band to keep the reel in place... :-s ...and of course that was ugly! :-) By now I only use screwed handle systemes... Vincent. Ugly may not be an issue for many anglers. My regular partner in American Bass fishes with nothing but G-Loomis rods. He has wrapped all of them with some nasty looking no slip padded tape that some sales man said would help him fish longer with out tiring or something like that. -- Bob La Londe www.YumaBassMan.com All about fishing in Yuma, Arizona Promote Your Fishing Website FOR FREE 
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February 25th, 2004, 11:27 PM
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Handle Design?
Bob wrote: "He has wrapped all of them with some nasty looking non slip
padded tape that some sales man said would help him fish longer with out tiring or something like that." Well that would dampen the hell out of the rod and eliminated the reason one would buy a Loomis. He could buy a BPS rod and save a lot of money if that is what he wants to do. Although the BPS wouldn't cast the same, Loomis rods are very stiff. -- Craig Baugher
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February 26th, 2004, 08:43 AM
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Handle Design?
Ugly may not be an issue for many anglers. My regular partner in American
Bass fishes with nothing but G-Loomis rods. He has wrapped all of them with some nasty looking no slip padded tape that some sales man said would help him fish longer with out tiring or something like that. -- Bob La Londe www.YumaBassMan.com All about fishing in Yuma, Arizona Promote Your Fishing Website FOR FREE Padded tape on a Loomis... sacrilege! :-) Vincent.
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