If you guys are worried about breaking the guides on your spiral wrapped rods, try using recoil guides. I have a custom rod that was built with recoil guides and now I will never go back. You can bend these guides all you want and they ain't gonna break! These are big bait rods, not finesse worm rods, so you really don't need those fancy ultra sensitive guides that are eventually gonna break if you're not careful. I was trying to get a rod built and the rod builder laughed at me when I said I wanted recoil guides (LDC).... Went with his suggestion and was not happy and ended up selling the rod. I'm telling you guys, recoils guides are the sh*t!