Gaff tape: It's the duct tape of audio and video engineers. Gaff tape and wire ties are synonymous with duct tape and bailing wire. It's kept my facilities going a time or two...

This is the first time I've seen it in a fishing application. It get gummy over an extended time, like any other tape. Do you remove it from your reels once your done fishing?

Nice bling, Corey. You knoooow you're going to fish it.


Appreciate the suggestion WCP. Thanks.

I wonder if Loomis would take my suggestion to either make their GLX CP blanks available or improve their components and workmanship. The GLX CP's are incredible rods, but it's an embarrassment what they charge for Tennessee handles, no hook keeper, miserable wraps and questionable guides.

Once a season.

I couldn't agree more with you. The 1563-2 is one of my favorite rods, but the workmanship on it is crap. I wish they would sell their blanks to the public again, but we all know the likeliness of that happening...

In the very near future I will be checking out the new centerpin rod by echo rods, my good buddy has the prototype and I'll be getting number 2 hopefully. I'm pretty shure its based on there 13' 7wt tr blank, with a fixed reelseat and good fuji guides, one in hand I'll let you all know the verdict, pretty shure its gona rock

The TR 13' 7 weight would make a great starting point for Echo CP's to evolve from.
Be a nice touch if they'd utilize the TR spey handle, just reverse the longer fore cork to bottom/shorter rear cork to top, and just stick with the same reel seat. (DH style corks on the TR CP build would be even better.)
They get this as right as their factory speys at similar price and they'll have a definite winner.

Keep us posted.

Yea for shure, so far its looking like a winner for shure

Can't say I know anything about Echo, but wouldn't the moderate action of the DH be preferable to the TR in a CP build?

DH too loose and tip heavy.

7 wt. TR would feel close to 6#-12# in CP form, with much better recovery rate than DH.

Too bad the Solo's are overly heavy, otherwise they would make for great float rods. Perfect ascending line ratings from 12'6" 4#-10#, 12'9" 6#-12# and 13' 8#-15#...

I agree with what

So far the tr based pin rod is a hair more stout than the g loomis 13' glx 8-12, the fixed reel seat rocks and its looking like a perfect big fish float rod, at least that's what my buddy that has it tells me

GLX CP rods have very fast recovery, but there is nothing "fastish" about their action. As far as I know there is no CP rod on the market that comes anywhere near the weight of GLX.
From description I'm hearing sounds more like a stouter version of the Rainshadow XST 13' 6-10 Mod-Fast rod, which will definitely handle big nates and kings.

Well he said its deffinatly gona be his go to float rod for kings and silvers, he owns the glx and said that the echo is meaty and has more back bone

The TR is faster with faster recovery and a bit more backbone than the 8#-12# GLX, with GLX getting weight department edge.
The Echo is actually not at all similar to GLX or XST.

Your buddy have any photos of the new rod WCPH? Factory assembled or he build it himself?

He sent me one pic of it, its the prototype built by the desiners at echo, not the greatest pic considering the final product will probly look a lil nicer, its alread made the journey to china and back so it won't be long until the first batch of factory rods are in

Btw I suggest all you pinheads try the new areo-float, I've been using them since about 2 weeks before they hit the store shelves and I really like them, there very similar to the raven floats and about the same price but are easier to get now that most of th big sporting goods retailers have them on their shelves

Something's wrong here. I google areo-float, and I get Aeroflot. You think they'd let me take a Centerpin rod as carry on to Russia to fish for Steelhead?

Look up hawken industrys or hawken fishing for more info on the areo float, and the new 4 piece pin rods can be carried on and taken to russia, mongolia were ever you wana go, is there even steelhead in russia? I know there's hucho hucho and hucho tiemen in russia and mongolia and they get huge! Id love to catch a 5 foot long 90 pound tiemen on my centerpin

I think on the Kamchatka Peninsula there are are salmon and steelhead runs in those rivers. It will be a long while before I get over to Russia to fish.

Thanks for the info on where to check out those floats.

Any tips on getting a good hookset w/ those c-p rods ??



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