I suspect that if you add 7" of cork at the top of the handle, and then removed 7" from the bottom end, the point of balance would not alter very much and you would just be left with a shorter rod that still felt front heavy...Ryeman wrote:Hi Paul,
A screw-in butt extension wouldn't bring about the effect I'm discussing. I don't want a longer handle. I want to be able to hold the rod, when fishing with it, higher up than the present handle allows. When I hold it a few inches above the top of the present handle -in the area where the name of the rod is - the whole balance of the rod feels much better. Now I could simply achieve this by extending the length of the handle by 7" inches at its upper end, by gluing some more corks on. If the butt end of the handle was then left intact, the original 20" handle would now be 27" long, making it too long for comfortable trotting, when the rod has to be sometimes passed across your body. So to keep the handle length to 20" , 7" would have to be removed from the butt-end.
Alan
I don't own an Octofloat; but do have a Nufloat (that replaced the Octofloat) and it is a good general purpose rod