Hey Barry. How many guides do your Kwik Taper rods have? I have an 8' Kwik Taper Woodgrain Wonderod, Model FY-608. It certainly is a BOOMstick. My rod only has 7 guides, total, including the tiptop and stripper guide. It is such a good casting rod that I've been toying with the idea of stripping the guides and wraps off and putting on 10 guides total. I think it is more of a 9 weight than the listed 8 weight. Maybe that would change with extra guides but I doubt it. It could be one of the best boat rods for largemouth bass fishing or northern pike fishing you could possibly ask for. I've thought about buying a few more so that I can have a number of rods in the boat with different flies on them. What I would really like to do with this rod is use it for fishing from a boat and casting underhanded to the underside of docks with big bugs.
I cast the specialty SAGE Largemouth graphite rod last week and thought in the back of my mind that the 8' Shakespeare I had at home was every bit as good for the intended purpose. This range of rods seems to be getting popular. I also cast some of the new Redington Predators which are 7'10" 4pc graphite rods. For $199, I'd buy one of those before I'd shell out twice that for one of the SAGE's. But the Shakespeare's are cheaper yet. The only thing that could possibly make the Shakespeare better is if someone could turn it into a 4pc. so I could have one in a convenient travel configuration like the SAGE's and Redingtons. For normal boat rods, though, I'd leave them as 2pc.
CrustyBugger
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