CRB LZR Guides

[Big_Easy_Bassin]

I’ve heard good things about these guides. Currently using mostly Fuji KL guide trains... usually with Alconite rings. Anyone have any experience with the LZR’s for comparison? I know they’re supposed to be lighter. Just wanting to know how they compare as far as quality and when it comes to casting distance vs the KL’s. Thanks in advance 

[webertime]

No issues yet with them on my budget rx-6 ned rig rod. 

[Big Swimbait]

I have used them on 2 ML Ned Rig rods without issue.

[wisconsin heat]

I'm eyeing up these guides for my next build as well, so far it sounds like they are good for need rig rods haha.

 

[spoonplugger1]

Don't get to caught up in brand names. A guide is a guide, just like a blank is a blank, picking the right ones for the job is the thing. The big thing with today's spinning guides is their height, this keeps the line off the blank, this allows the the ring size to be reduced, increasing line control, and reducing weight. Thing is this is nothing new  guides have been built for it since just after WW II, then they  were called "match guides" and still are, Fuji was building guides for it since the early 80's if not before, look in your old Dale Clemens' book, it's the Fuji Fleaweights mentioned there. Pacific Bay never quit building them, and the heights are virtually the same as the Fuji KH, for far less money. The Pac Bay guides are the ones used on the G Loomis rods, back when Gary owned the company.

[Black Hawk Basser]

On 6/4/2020 at 11:38 AM, spoonplugger1 said:

Pacific Bay never quit building them, and the heights are virtually the same as the Fuji KH, for far less money. The Pac Bay guides are the ones used on the G Loomis rods, back when Gary owned the company.

Do you know the specific name of these Pac Bay guides?

[S Hovanec]

1 hour ago, Pickle_Power said:

Do you know the specific name of these Pac Bay guides?

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