Removable Fighting Butts?

Buzzy said:
I built a rod once with a removable fighting butt, somewhere just upstream of the Clay Banks run, I noticed the removable butt piece was 'removed'. I suppose by now there's not much left of it. I wonder where in the Strait of Juan de Fuca it might be.

@Wetswinger - for me, I like fighting butts and they don't need to be removable for the reason noted above. Did you sell the rod you recently had advertised? It was very nicely done.
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Oh, thanks. Nobody seems to want it right now. I took it down but will try again in a month or so when I'll have some other rod projects ready; a rebuilt Redington Voyant 8# and a NFC 8# Iconoglass.
 
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Why remove the butt is my question? What is the negative to having one? I like rods with fighting butts and I've never noticed a negative. Maybe in small rods the extra weight is noticeable? I've seen videos where Gallop complained about not liking them because they tangle line. Not sure I've personally encountered that problem, but apparently he has.
 
I've purchased and decided to make a 9'6", NFC 8# Classic, 2- piece (original Loomis GLX) with removable butt. I'll use a small butt for single hand and a longer switch butt for two hand off the beach. That will turn it into a 10' rod.I think you guys are right, why go without one? I've really taken the plunge and gone down the rabbit hole with rodmaking. My brain is churning, scheming for new projects much to my wife's chagrin..
 
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I wouldn't bother with a 2" removable fighting butt because a 2" butt is next to useless. A 5" fighting butt makes playing large fish on a single hand rod much easier on the wrist. And at 5" a removable butt is going to be handier for most casters than a permanent one. But that part is subjective. I know that when I've played fish over 10 pounds on a single hand rod I found myself wishing the rod had a usable fighting butt.
 
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