Technique Specific Fishing Rods - Part 1 of a Series

Manufactures continue to bring to the marketplace new and interesting tools for fishing.  Some have a complete series of rods to match different presentations or baits, lengths, line class and so on.  This series of blogs will deal with several unique technique specific custom rods to be used in special situations where no off-the-shelf rod will do the job.

The first of this series will deal with the Spiral Wrap or Roberts Wrap as is it properly known. 

I am a professional custom rod builder and have explored and use this technique exclusively on all of my casting rod for some time now.  There is no practical reason not to use the wrap other than the time it takes to properly set up the rod. 

The spiral wrap technique is about 100 years old.  It was developed by a cat fisherman in Kansas City.  He believe and correctly so, that a rod should be stable when fighting a big fish.  After a lot of trial and error he came about the technique properly call the Roberts Wrap.  His technique ha morphed over the years and now carries several name, such as spiral wrap,acid wrap,revolver and several others.  The point of the Spiral Wrap is that the wrap will give greater casting distance, better casting accuracy and most importantly, stability in fighting a fish.

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