I was looking through the Cabelas catalog and ran across the Fish Eagle II Trolling rod (see photo). The rod has the guides in a spiral to “eliminate torque during the fight”. Does anyone have any experience with this concept or is just a gimmick?
Thanks
Huge gimmick! I fell for it a couple years ago when I had a Muskie rod custom built by somebody other than Thorne bros. The hack claimed the rod would cast further and actually make reeling buck tails in easier. When all I really got was a rod that cost me 2X as much as a Thorne custom. And the damn thing was the most poorly built rod I’ve ever owned that neither made casting or reeling any easier. Lesson learned I guess 
IMHO, “torque” is varied by the distance between eyes, the number of eyes and how far the eyelets are from the rod. The closer togeter and the farther they stick out in certain areas changes the the degrees of bend on the rod. It seems to me that a spiral pattern would be an negative.
Spiral pattern inst to reduce torque on fighting fish, it is to reduce toque when trolling. When trolling with the rod in a holder reel up, the rod flex’s sideways, when the guides are spiraled like that the rod flexes sideways but the guides are the right way to support it. Supposed to be easier on the rod and easier to see what your bait is doing. They suck for fighting fish and casting.
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Spiral pattern inst to reduce torque on fighting fish, it is to reduce toque when trolling. When trolling with the rod in a holder reel up, the rod flex’s sideways, when the guides are spiraled like that the rod flexes sideways but the guides are the right way to support it. Supposed to be easier on the rod and easier to see what your bait is doing. They suck for fighting fish and casting.
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The name should have been your first clue…. 
Ive got some Scotty downrigger rods with the coil eyes. They catch fish but I could not tell you good or bad idea. They work I guess.
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