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[John R]

Scott - I've built 2 1087 Batsons for others and I have one already cork taped and handled for myself - I want to use this for light, under an ounce type lures like Mambo's and Bomber's. Now the nice thing with this rod is that you can use it for eelage provided you use slighly undersized eels. A relative of mine has a 1087 conventional I built him for his B-Day that he through a Daiwa Millionare (not a bad reel for the coin) on and has used with lighter eels and it's just fine.

And like I said before, the Batson's IMO are a little crisper than the PBs - They are all also cut down 3 inches from the factory compared to the Pac Bay so a 9' Batson is really 8'9" ... If you ever get a chance to feel the bare blanks of both side to side, you'll see what I mean. A little less whippy and a little more crisp and maybe a tad or two more sensitive...

I use 20# Big Game almost religously on a Calcutta 400 with my 1088 rods when eeling. I'm going to try braid for a while this year on a very souped up 6500 [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] Mag-E and see how that goes...