Thursday, July 9, 2015

Baitcasting Rod for Heavy cover fishing 7' 12-25lb

Planned almost 4 months ago, a standard heavy cover bait casting rod and additional design added along the way.

Simple components. Fuji TCS reel seat custom painted gloss black, fuji rubber gimbal, aluminium extended and custom shaped CAMO EVA split handle.




Used CRB 12-25lb 7' blank for this rod.

Test fitting handle before gluing up.





Black fuji guides with duo tone metallic wrapping.




Rod decal after epoxy.






Epoxy on wrapping





Another round of finishing epoxy coating to wrapping



The rod handle




Fighting butt with Fuji rubber gimbal. Something like SMITH KOZ.



The completed rod