SirSnookalot

It only takes a moment to spool a ul reel, no reason to do it until you're ready to use it.

Owning several spinning reels with MSRP over $200, most are vastly over priced. For a freshwater reel a president isn't just a good reel, it excels.

Spinning, braid, leader for 100% of my fishing for every lure type and all species.

As a kid I remember Dunhams quite well. The original store was on Northwestern Hwy and Orchard Lake rd, a tiny little store front Mom & Pops with a live bait shack in the rear. That area of Oakland County has scores of lakes, back in the 50's almost every one of them had a boat livery, today it's all private homes and no more cottages.

One of my first jobs was repossessing vacuum cleaners and sewing machines, both interesting and dangerous. That was not the highlight of the job, the owner of the business had a 39' sailboat called the Eurphoria.. Part of the job was sailing the day races on Lake St Clair with a few over night races plus 2 Mackinaw races yearly. Wednesday was practice day or working on the boat. When it came to the Mac races Howard my co worker and best friend and I sailed the boat from Detroit to Chicago or Pt. Huron and back home home when the race was finished, stopping at many ports, partying for several weeks. The boat was only used for races Howard and I had the use of the boat whenever we wanted. Lee, the owner, also had a 360 fuel injected split roof stingray and 64' Excalibur, we could use those cars at will too.

The Spanish Fly website is still active, I watch it quite often. http://www.spanishflytv.com/

Do an internet search and you will discover this is not an isolated problem with the line roller bearing on stradics. 1 person I read had 5 stradics with the same problem. I've replaced that bearing several times on both my stradics. Last time around Shimano didn't have the bearing available so I went into Boca bearings with bearing in hand. They told me that people come in all the time just for that problem, these reels are used in saltwater. Hard for me to understand why when the placement of the bearing does not come in contact with water, and my spheros' using the same bearing never has had that problem. This bearing has nothing to do with the overall smoothness of the reel, the bearing being bad really just creates some noise and the roller just not moving as free, the reel is still very functional. I'd reel all the line back onto the spool, if the reel is rough when no line is passing over the roller your problem lies elsewhere.

Personally I don't think it makes much of difference what line is used, with or with out a leader. I choose braid for 1 reason, I like it and dislike the stretch with mono.

The rod is what propels the lure not the reel. True with a b/c the spool has to move to cast, not so with spinning as the line is coming off a fixed spool, the rod does all the work. Very light lures can casted with spinning as long as the rod loads. A practice I don't bass fishing is overloading, inshore is very common. About the only difficult cast with spinning for me is a pitch with a 7' and over rod, 6'6 and under I simply make a make backhand flip which I find very easy to do. For the most part I find spinning much more versatile, I can buy any size rod I need to propel a lure.

Try 70.......a few months and I'll let you know.

I use spinning gear 100% of the time for any fishing technique and species. The rod and reel only delivers the lure to the intended target area, use the system that you are most comfortable with.

I still put tape on the spool even though it's "braid ready". I agree about braid and leader for spinning gear. At present I'm using 10# PP slick, 10# US braid, 15# Fins wind tamer and 15# original PP. Not a recommendation or endorsement, my everyday line is US braid and fish inline spinners most of the time with it. It's the only line I've not had a wind tangle or knot, the line has performed beautifully. I put some 20# on one of my barracuda rigs and so far it's been quite good.

I don't fish for them any more. Don't want to release them and don't want to kill a fish I won't be using for food or bait. I just removed myself from the equation of not having to deal with it.

When you find out tell me, I have never caught a fresh water snook or tarpon in Palm Beach County.

HAHA....Kinda sums it up why I fish alone and don't give up my prime spots.

I feel for ya, I do wear bifocals but I don't have any problem seeing what I need to tie. This guy (RIP) claims his knot is a strong as a bimini twist, pretty much the way I tie it and it works quite well. Interesting as no modern sophisticated knot is used, just an ordinary clinch knot. If handles bonefish and permit it's going to handle anything I catch and it does. I go back and refresh myself with this video often.

With all due respect a bass fisherman can't relate to any thing like this, even catching an 6 or 8# jack off the beach is a thrill that's going to last much longer than minute. Sharks are interesting, not all species are legal fair game, some of the legal ones are banned in certain communities. We see them caught using a bobber, actually a 1 gallon milk bottle with a glow light in it. They will paddle out on a surf board and drop the bait then paddle back to shore. I believe this is a reef shark, don't know the various species too well, caught on 8000 spheros 20# mono and 25# class rod while drifting for kingfish, it took a while. As soon as it was boat side and cut off I had second one on the line after I re rigged, landed that one too.

Never caught a 700# fish but I've landed quite a few triple digit ones, using the appropriate gear for those species the formula for landing them is the same as the larger tuna. In my part of Florida both bonita and black fin are common, being just fraction of the size (20# is pretty good) of a bluefin these fish can still put some hurt on ya and they won't be landed with a locked down drag.

When I had my first home in North Miami around 1980 the publix had a dine in deli.

Great explanation shanksmere............FYI Bluefin tuna are warm blooded.

The albacore that are swing onto a boat are not big, don't believe you could lift a 70 or 80# one. Tuna and many other pelagic species have power and speed that is hard to comprehend. You have to fish drag for these fish, I have had mishaps with too tight a drag even though fish were still pulling out line, hooks bent or broke, knots don't always hold under that pressure. What is seldom seen is what the helmsman is doing, must keep that fish off the back of the boat. The man on the rod has the rod in the rod holder, a rod designed to fish that way. He is not wearing a fighting belt or strapped into a fighting chair. Fishing off a cruiser and not a center console, a fish moving off the bow would be extremely difficult to handle. An experienced helmsman is the key to landing those fish. I ran across a guy a couple of weeks ago fishing shark in the ICW, had 2300 yards of 100# braid on his reel 14/0 senator.

Don't recall ever seeing hooks hanging from the belly or tail of a live bait fish, yet fish of all species hit lures with hooks dangling. I don't feel bass are the least bit line shy, I use leaders, not fc, for a bit of shock, break offs and #1 reason is untangle from treble hooks.

I have 7 shims on 1 stradic and 5 on another, had to send a Daiwa tierra back to the factory for a line stacking problem. The initial spool ups were fine but in time I needed the shims. Shimming was the least of my problems with Shimano. Have never had to shim any other reel brand.

Yes they are............ Any where in Lake Osborne, Lake Ida, the El Rio and connecting canals. Starting to see some west of the freshwater spillways, but small.

They aren't far from Boca, Coral Springs, Margate and Deerfield have plenty of them in the canals. Many of these canals are mucky and thick with vegetation, frogs work good.