Topwater Caranx Ignobilis: Giant Trevally (GT) > Tackle & Techniques

Anyone with experience with T-Russell and Seed GT blanks?

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--- Quote from: Brandon Khoo on February 28, 2008, 07:22:10 PM ---But baitcasting blanks are built primarily for accuracy, not distance. For distance with a GT rod, I cannot see how you can possibly cast a short handled rod as far as a longer handled rod. It is a simple matter of leverage

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Never mind if it is not for distance. We are discussing about the furthest one can hit with 3 types of handle to conclude that short or longest handle is not necessary the right or wrong thing. It is all about using the right handle length for different action of blanks. There is a right balance to every blank and angler; the longest of handle will mean a shorter length to load and propel the popper. Too short a handle on a stiff and long rod will create too great a leverage against the angler. We gone down that path before on how I cant find the right rod to build.

Daniel Chee:
Hi Jon,
Never had that problem; with or without gloves as the grip was still big enough for me to prevent the fingers from "digging" into my palm. Havent compared but perhaps I have a small hand with respect to my size ;D

Anyway I tend to get more of the claw syndrome when I use only the top two "segments" of the fingers to grip onto a big grip vs when I can use the whole of the fingers to grip round the grip itself.

Abit of interesting read, the grip size was decided after testing with a focus group of anglers, where different sizes of grips were used to see which allowed the angler to exert the most force, and at the same time also hang on to a dead load for the longest period of time.


Cheers








--- Quote from: Jon Li on February 28, 2008, 07:34:25 PM ---Hi Dan ,

In my case , the foregrip size must suit one's hand , in tennis racket I use 4 1/2 grip and when I tried playing with my daughter's racquet , each time I do my stroke I wud twist the racquet due to too small a grip . My fingers are pressing against my hand and preventing me from gripping the racquet tightly .

The same with rod ( any kind ) , lest you want Brandon's " .... claw " syndrome , the grip must suit one's hand and I stand by my statement that Caranx Kaibutsu's foregrip is a little too small for me , it's no bigger than the butt grip of my bass rod . I am a smaller guy than you so your hand must be bigger than mine , I wonder how you can exert strong enough grip under substantial pressure from the big fish fighting for it's life ?

Jon . 


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Brandon Khoo:
"Claw syndrome" cannot be avoided after five straight days of popping! The thing is I get it in both hands, not just the hand holding the rod

Daniel Chee:
Hi Yu Hock,
When I first started popping about 10 years back, there were hardly any purpose built rods that were available for us to use. That period before the influx of Japanese rods that came in saw us experimenting with quite a few different blanks to get something to suit our needs. One of the better working ones was a 2 pc Graphcast which was from CD if I remember correctly. If you dont mind a mid joint blank, the rod was not excessively stiff and yet had pretty reasonable power for mid size GTs to 30kg. Probably could be close to what you wanted if you wished to do your short butt pop rod.



--- Quote from: Yu Hock on February 28, 2008, 07:48:46 PM ---
--- Quote from: Brandon Khoo on February 28, 2008, 07:22:10 PM ---But baitcasting blanks are built primarily for accuracy, not distance. For distance with a GT rod, I cannot see how you can possibly cast a short handled rod as far as a longer handled rod. It is a simple matter of leverage

--- End quote ---

Never mind if it is not for distance. We are discussing about the furthest one can hit with 3 types of handle to conclude that short or longest handle is not necessary the right or wrong thing. It is all about using the right handle length for different action of blanks. There is a right balance to every blank and angler; the longest of handle will mean a shorter length to load and propel the popper. Too short a handle on a stiff and long rod will create too great a leverage against the angler. We gone down that path before on how I cant find the right rod to build.


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Daniel Chee:
Hi Brandon,
On 2 hands?? :o
Are you sure you did not get the claw syndrome on your other hand from doing some other unthinkable thing? lol...

Jokes aside, reality is that I get that too, I guess it just is part and parcel of GT popping.....Squeezing on a squash ball to exercise the fingers several months before your trip helps a little though.......




--- Quote from: Brandon Khoo on February 28, 2008, 08:07:16 PM ---"Claw syndrome" cannot be avoided after five straight days of popping! The thing is I get it in both hands, not just the hand holding the rod

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