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    A "Fly style" snake guide acts more like a single foot guide because the guide itself will flex if its titanium, unlike a standard double footed guide that is Ridged. I personally don't agree with putting double foot guides all the way up. All you are doing to a light weight rod is adding weight and stiffening the rod. Say a single foot guide has a foot of 1/4 to 3/8 of a inch of movement that is being taken for every guide. A double foot guide would be more like 3/4 to 1 inch of movement taken out for every guide. Say on a 7ft rods that thats 8,9 or 10 guides on it that a lot of movement being taken out. Not to forget you have to balance the rod out so its not tip heavy. This is not a bull red rod with 30 pound min line on it and catching reds up to 50 pounds and hooking a 200 pound plus shark from time to time. In that case yea double foot guides for support to the tip, fish that big and powerful can roll a guide over if the line starts to roll to one side of the blank.

    Secondly the more weight that is put on the blank just makes more energy for the rod to dissipate, take a rod blank flex it and let it go see how much it moves back and fourth before coming to a stop. Then add the lightest guide set you can. It will take longer do to more moving weight. Now take a set of double foot guides and it will move back and fourth harder and longer. If your thinking why does this matter. Every time you cast, you are loading the rod up and it’s wobbling in the air when you stop your cast. Your guides are hitting the line and shortening your casting distance. You honestly want to use the lightest and least number of guides you can get away with so the rod reacts as close to natural as possible... Bait casting rods need more guides to hold the line above the blank with out touching the blank then a spinning or fly rod does. When the line is under the blank of the rod, you just want a smooth transfer from one guide to the next no hard turns from guide to guide. It falls into can you yes, but just because you can doesn't mean you should is the way i look at it.
    Last edited by Gbcorley; 04-22-2019 at 04:25 PM.

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