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Originally Posted by The G factor
im pretty sure (knowing piscateur) that he is actually going beyond the simple idea of a balanced outfit, ie, rod and reel together, and is referring to the rod itself, which is why he said you need a light and well balanced rod. He didn't say a nice and well balanced outfit.
Logic behind this is, is some rods are naturally unbalanced and tip heavy regardless of what reel you put on. Yes you could put a 400gram reel on to balance the outfit, but the rod itself will always remain poorly balanced. This could be because of a variety of factors like the guides used, amount of epoxy, graphite distribution, grips, etc etc. You can feel a well balanced rod in your hand before it has the reel on it.
Piscateur isnt exactly silly enough to be saying that no matter what reel you put on an unbalanced rod it will always be an unbalanced outfit. Thats completely illogical because you can always add/reduce weight to give it a 50-50 weight distribution according to a certain pivot point on the grips, so its pretty obvious thats not what he was saying.
Feel free to say otherwise piscateur, but thats what I took from you post
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We should take balance point into account but also balancing torque.
A nice rod would feel good and light on hand no matter what reel you put on and where the balance point is. Those well designed long eging rods seldom have balance point close to grip but still feel good as the balancing torque is small. A tip heavy rod would still feel heavy even if you balance it with a heavy reel to make its balance point on the grip as the balancing torque is large.