My 10 foot GATORGLASS is getting a rebuild

william · 2010-07-18T14:45:24Z

The time has come to rebuild the old Monster meat stick .This rod with it's highly valued Gatorglass blank (no longer made) has served me well throughout the years.With it I have caught many big fish including an 8 ft 8 inch Bull shark that will air on Nat Geo's "Hooked" tv show this year. After almost 15 years of use ,the deep battle scars each one a memory of a different incident are starting to show more and more.This rod is my favorite big gun and it deserves the best of care, so this week it gets a whole new rebuild. My cork is worn down to the blank on the butt and foregrip and two of the foul proof guides have snapped of so it's time for a vacation at the Rod shop.It's like the 6 million dollar man "we can rebuild him stronger ,faster,better"I will be getting braced ceramic guides instead of the foul proofs ,the Aftco stripper will remain as will the Aftco bigfoot size 28 tip, but the cork will be replaced with a black veltex foam butt section protected by black shrink wrap and on the foregrip also the veltex minus the heat shrink material.The beautiful and intricate Pompano wrap above the foregrip will be the only section of the rod that will remain unchanged. The reason i want the shrink wrap on the butt section is because this rod with the 16/0 on it is very heavy and when I hook a fish on the beach I almost always sit down and stick the butt in the sand while using a shoulder harness,,,,, so what happens the butt section that is in the sand always gets alot of wear and tear and I feel the heat shrink will offer me better protection against the chaffing.This rod is being rebuilt by Chaos rods(Marshall) the best in south Florida right now .I will post the pictures once it is finished. Even though we use rubber hose protection on our rods eventually the rod takes a beating with the years and the monsters [url

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Hoogan

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You're welcome, it was an honor Willy to go over your 16/0 which I will name:
"The Warrior"

WOW, not buts and if's from the guys at the new CHAOS, they just got the job done. When we took the gator to the other guy he had all kinds of excuses, now we know...
CHAOS is the place and they got all the long blanks too!!!

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Posted : 09/05/2010 5:23 am

Dockmaster55

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There are so many things I love about this rod. It makes that 16/0 look SEXY. Please advise, how well did that cork hold up? I am thinking of having a monster pier rod built from one of these 10' blanks cut down to 7.5 or 8, and I was thinking of doing cork front and back on it. Only using a widespool 6/0 tho. Thanks for any input any of you guys can give.

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Posted : 08/31/2011 10:21 am

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