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9ft 9wt 4pc IM8 custom

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9ft 9wt 4pc IM8 custom rod for pike & bass just out of the drying cabinet this morning. This one has a braided seat with wood insert, burl corks grip & butt, dual stripper guides, snake running guides, dark green main wraps with gold metallic trim on the sage green blank with some gold spiraling trim work as well as a Kigan hood keeper.

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Side question on IM8 rods:

How good would a 10ft 8wt IM8 be for two handed casting?

(Thinking beaches where there is no practical room for back cast)

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Only difference in IM is weight.IM stands for intermedius modulus(may be spelled wrong its late lol) but what IM higher means is lighter weight. So most times a IM8 is lighter than an IM6 etc. So a longer 10ft rod, an IM8 woul;d work better than an IM 6 because lighter over all weight. Then agin when you really get into it....IM is wall thickness, so hard to compare IM8 to IM6 but it gets dicy. For the most part though higher IM is lighter most times.

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I have a 10 ft im12 that steel drifter made made for me on an anglers roost blank I love the rod I believe you could do some two handed casting with it but I would be cautious about really loadingit up and going for max distance with both hands.

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Side question on IM8 rods:

How good would a 10ft 8wt IM8 be for two handed casting?

(Thinking beaches where there is no practical room for back cast)

I think the problem here might be finding a 10 ft 8 wt spey blank, maybe a switch blank. At that I'm about to start a switch iM6 in 4/5 and it's 11 ft. as I recall.

 

Edit: Incidentally, I'm building that for beach pools in a river I go to in Maine and for local ponds where back cast room is limited to none.

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