Aluminum or Slick Butts for 30 & 50s?

[Lured Away]

Trying to decide on some new rods and curious what you prefer for 30 & 50 Internationals on stand-up rods?

Slick-butt or aluminum?? Leaning towards aluminum but many of the rods seem to come with the slick-butt style hard plastic. Is the slick butt style stong enough to stand up?

What's the preference?

[reel fool]

I don't like the slick butts. They wear out over time--the grooves in the gimble open up & the rods "wabble" in the rod holder.

If you have the same problem with the aluminum (& u will eventually), u can replace them if you get 2 piece rods.

[Gusman]

I might be wrong, but I think you can get an aluminum gimble and put it on the slick butt....

[paul708]

its more of a personal prefrence thing..i like alum for 50 size reels..or if you are using heavy 30's.. although we did a few slickbutts for the standup giant tuna this year using 70 and 80 reels....what reels are you using?

[TROPHY SPORTFISHING]

See how long those slick butts last when you crank on fish with them in the rod holder. Anything bigger than a tyrnos or tld 25 go AL.

[paul708]

I might be wrong, but I think you can get an aluminum gimble and put it on the slick butt....

yeah you can use AFTCO alum seat and AFTCO gimbal. i put those on alot of the top end slick butt rods

[paul708]

See how long those slick butts last when you crank on fish with them in the rod holder. Anything bigger than a tyrnos or tld 25 go AL.

yeah, you really want to use slick butt while holding, would not recomend fighting BIG drags from the holder to often

[fishy]

Nothing will last as long.

[FinRazr]

The only thing without aluminum I use is for dink rods or a pitch rod for whitey.

[wickeditch]

ALUM ALL THE WAY PERIOD FRIEND you will be thankfull in the longrun