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Here is an interesting poll for all of you to participate in. When you are crappie fishing, do you prefer to have your guides up or your guides down? Personally I like mine guides down because at my age I can see the line better. I have seen it done both ways on many of the popular TV shows.....Angling Edge, Hank Parker, Jimmy Houston,Wally Marshall, etc. Take the poll please and add your comments. I only use open face reels and lite line.
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There's no choice for "depends on how I'm fishin". I tightline with baitcasters, so guides up. I longline with spinners, so guides down.
Sorta depends on the reel. It would be kinda hard to keep them up with a spinning reel.
I use low profile bait casters on all my trolling rods but still go guides down. I use the small crappie maxx level winds on my jig'n poles and they are held guides down also.
Ship ... I've seen TV ads where people were holding a spinning reel UP and reeling BACKWARDS, so I have no doubt that some would put a spinning rod/reel outfit in a rod holder UPSIDE DOWN :Rofl
Be that as it may ... I put MY spinning outfits in my rod holders, guides down. Makes them easier to reach over & remove from the holders, flexes the rod in the direction it was intended to bend, and puts the weight of the reel below the plane of the holder ... which helps seat the rod into the holder grooves, & not be top heavy, out of balance, and/or subject to being in the way of removing the rod from the holder.
... cp :kewl
Guides down when using spincasters...guides up when using baitcasters. No option for both!
The spine of any rod is aligned with the guides. To reverse it would take away the action meant by the builder.
Guides up with baitcasters, guides down with spinners like the others:highfive
I don't understand? If you rotate the rod/reel on the right you have the same thing as on the left pic. As far as I know all/most spinning reels are made to be on the underside of a rod. :dono
I should have put a different reel on the other photo. It was just meant to show the guides position.
(DOWN)(for vertical jig fishing)The Great Bass/crappie fishing (yes crappie fishing) legend the General (Larry Nixon) showed us in a bass fishing class at a bass club meeting that for greater feel of the strike or bite that the line going through the guides down has a greater feel because the less line touching a guide or rod blank (guides up) has less feel of the bite or strike!! Mr Nixon has made a very good living in the world of bass fishing!!
My jig poles , guides down.
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Originally Posted by papadave
I'm addicted to guides down. I have a few baitcast reels that I'll use once in a blue moon.
I use baitcasters on all my spider rig rods.....I place them in the rod holders upside down so the eyes are down.....can see the bite better this way ... after I set the hook I turn rod eyes up and reel the fish in. Works for me
I knew a guy who would wrap a bait caster with the first 2 guides that would move the line path around to the bottom. His reasoning was that if you bend a rod with guides up the line touches the rod twice for each guide. He called it a Robert's wrap. Easy to do on a 2 piece rod and makes sense as well.
InterestingQuote:
Originally Posted by jigfisherx
There used to be Bass rods made that way, a long time ago !! And they're still being made ... they're called "Spiral Wrapped" or "Acid Rods".Quote:
Originally Posted by jigfisherx
I had one similar to those rods for awhile, but it was one that I modified and not one of the commercially available ones. It worked fine, but I really never thought it was more efficient than my other rods. :twocents
... cp :kewl
Thats the way I do it too!Quote:
Originally Posted by Iwannafish
Up with baitcaster down with spinning
Up with a baitcaster down with a spinning rig
Guides down, only use spinners
Guides down except when pulling crankbaits.
Up with baitcasters down with spinning, if not, you are stressing the rod against the spine. I did have a few baitcasters with the wrap around guides which are attributed to Bud Earhardt, good idea but I didn't care for them.
Guides down....I' m oddball and fly fish...keep a tight line
Always eyes down
guides down for spinnin and up for baitcasters but I would like to remind folks of the fun a lot of us had with no guides - just a line and a good ol cane pole.
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Originally Posted by SlabSlayer60
I remember those days SlabSlayer. Back in 1951 at the age of six I caught my first crappie using the good old cane pole.
Guides up casting, guides down spinning.
Duce Rods sell a spiral wrapped rod. I love itQuote:
Originally Posted by CrappiePappy
I only have one closed face reel and I use it guides up. All others are the bail type reels and I fish them guides down.
Spinning reels for me with guides down.
Always guides down, regardless of reel.