[ol][li]2 of my rods have an issue that I'm wondering if I should be worried about. If you look at the attached picture, you hopefully will be able to make out that there are 2 guides in the picture. The bottom guide is normal. The top guide, however, is the top guide on the rod, the tip. It is missing that interior loop, the o-ring looking thing...Is this a hazard to my line? Will is cause the line to break should I get a good fighting fish? Its this way on the tip guide of both rods, So I need some help here so I know what to do.[/li][li]On all my reels there is a gear ratio, for example on my baitcast reel here it is 6:3:1. The time has finally come, my friends, to ask this question. What does it mean and how important to me is this information as far as line, lure, sinker, etc... go? If this is a really simple answer I'm gonna feel stupid lol
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The same thing happened to my rod tip. the inner o ring came out and it does not look very safe to be catching many fish with it like that. It's been a couple months now and I still havn't fixed it and I've been taking the risk of fishing with it.
But if you ask me I'd get it fixed asap. All it's going to do is give something for the line to wear down on. It'd be like the line up against a rock or something. I'm not fishing with that rod of mine again until I get a new tip or inner thing put on. way to risky.
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Any time you lose the ceramic o ring you need to get it fixed. As basshunter said your line will wear down fast.
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It describes how many times the spool (or on a spinner, the bail) rotates for each time you turn the handle. This is a general indicator of how fast you can retrieve line. But how fast the line comes in depends on how large the spool is. Small freshwater reels may have spools which are an inch or so in diameter -- this means each rotation brings in 3 to 4 inches of line, so a 4:1 reel will bring in 12-16 inches of line per crank, while a 6:1 reel will bring in 18 to 24 inches. But a larger saltwater reel might have a 2-inch diameter spool, which would bring in roughly twice as much line per rotation -- 24-32 inches at 4:1, or 36-48 inches at 6:1. This can make it much harder to crank on a heavy fish, so larger reels are generally built with lower gear ratios. (The huge big game reels are rarely built with a ratio higher than 3:1.) Anyway, when comparing reels, remember you don't need as high a gear ratio to get a fast retrieve on a larger reel.
[font "Verdana, Sans-Serif"]The break down would be like this, let's say you've got a reel with a gear ratio[/font] [font "Verdana, Sans-Serif"]5-1-1. What this determines is that the spool will rotate 5 times in one turn.[/font]
[font "Verdana, Sans-Serif"]The[/font] [font "Verdana, Sans-Serif"]general rule is that a slower reel is a good choice any time you are going to work[/font] [font "Verdana, Sans-Serif"]a bait with the reel, while faster is preferred for lures that the rod will be working.[/font]
[font "Verdana, Sans-Serif"]With a crankbait or spinnerbait where you are actually cranking, you might want[/font] [font "Verdana, Sans-Serif"]a slower retrieve for a more acurate presentation. When you are slow rolling, you [/font][font "Verdana, Sans-Serif"]gain more sensitivity with a 5-1-1.[/font]
[font "Verdana, Sans-Serif"]However if you are fishing with a jig or worm, you[/font] [font "Verdana, Sans-Serif"]want a reel that will allow to recover the slack line faster and move the fish out of[/font] [font "Verdana, Sans-Serif"]cover more quickly.[/font]
[font "Verdana, Sans-Serif"] I hope this is helpful to you.Happy Fishing [fishin]
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Very much so! I'll be thinking about this stuff when I buy a new combo...which is gonna be soon. I saw a Mitchell Spinning combo with 12lb line on it at Dick's yesterday, and it looked like a real good pole and whatnot, so I decided I was gonna get it. I'm gonna go back and look at the reel and see if the gear ratio fits my qualifications.
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Keep in mind that the ratio also has to do with torque and power as well as speed of retrieval.
Lower ratio gives more power and slower speed at a particular crank speed. Higher ratio will give less power and faster retrieval at the same speed of cranking.[cool]
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I would deff be worried about your 2 rods with the eye inserts missing. This will really put a beating on your line no matter what type you use. If you do hook up with a big fish the chances of your line breaking go up dramatically. So if these rods were expensive i would get the eyes fixed, if not put some new line on your reals and put them on a different rod ASAP[shocked]
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I'll probably get new rods for them. Both of them are Shakespeare rods, and one of them I've only had for about 8 months, and I don't fish it that much. So I'm thinking that may be the end of Shakespeare equipment for me. I got a reel on my berkely gig game rod that works great, and a crappie combo...I'll use those until they break or whatever, but I don't think I'm gonna buy any more Shakespeare stuff.
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Hey Simp. You can get a replacement tip kit for that at Wallys world for about 4 bucks. If you really like the rod and don't want to invest in something else at the moment, that would be the way to go. You can also repair it to have a loaner for a friend. haha.[cool]
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Both novel suggestions, the latter especially because I'm gonna try to get my brother in law to start fishing as well
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