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Sunline Sniper is a really good FC and handles GREAT on spinning reels, I dont fish spinning reels so I dont use it much however On the spinning reels I do have thats whats spooled on them.. Sunline Shooter is THE BEST FC IMHO its the most Sensitive, strong, holds up to abrasion best, awesome knots, smooth tying FC Ive ever used... and I have used them all the only one that comes close to shooter is Toray Bawo Premium Plus and it still really dont compare.... If you liked Tatsu then you will LOVE Shooter...Another amazing FC thats priced a little better then shooter and is really good is Megabass Dragon call FC Its my 2nd choice in FC's behind Shooter and in front of the Toray Bawo... When it comes to braid Daiwa is the only way to go!!! nothing is in the same ball park with it... if you dont want to use the Daiwa braid and want something else then my next choice is Toray Bawo Finesse Braid and it is really good, has everything the Daiwa braid has to offer HOWEVER it cost most its around 40 bucks for 82 yards... I have it on 4 reels and the reason its on them is because I bought 4 spools to test out wondering just how good it could be for the price and its the same as the Daiwa stuff I would never buy it again unless I cant get the Daiwa stuff... When it comes to Nylon/copolys lines I fish only three and they are..#1 Sunline Shooter Defier Nylon Monofilament and #2 Sunline Machine Gun Cast #3 Toray Bawo Polyamide Plus.. If you dont want to pay those high prices for those lines but want a really good Nylon line Sunline Super Natural Monofilament is good and priced REALLY good its 10 bucks for 330 yards.. I have used it on a few reels in fact just took it off 2 reels a few days ago. I will respool a few top water setups with it when I take the Polyamide off them. Another really good FC that is great and priced well is the Sugoi Fluorocarbon (Gary Yamamoto line) its priced around 18-20 bucks for 130 yards and the stuff is stellar its one of the most sensitive FC's out there close to shooter in that area BUT shooter is far less stiff then the Sugoi line other then that is awesome and I have used it a lot before I fished Shooter and Dragon call. RW what # test FC do you use the most? Let me know and Ill send you a spool of Shooter to try out in that pound test if I have it or the closest I have to that test and you can give the guys your opinion on it! I have some spools laying around in lower pound test that I wont ever use so I dont mind given you one so you will fall in love with it lol.

* is best, all others are crap and that's it * indicates Daiwa.

That KVD reel had an ALUM frame, the ZX has a graphite frame. It is made by quantum like I said and they have a few store brand reels based on it... The Tournament ZX Spinning Reel is a Exceler with one extra bearing and painted white..

The ZX HS is made by Quantum, They make one for Dicks sporting goods to at dicks its called Quantum Escalade Baitcast 870 at dicks.. The Cabela's Fish Eagle® Tournament II Baitcast Reel Is the Daiwa Procaster 6+1... its also this reel to thats a BPS only reel lol its just a different color, but the same reel. Daiwa® Procaster® Tournament PT100-6Bi Baitcast Reel The Cabela's Prodigy is a Advantage 153/ Tierra... Those reels simply preform at there price points. I have a Few Advantage HSTA's that guest can grab when we head to the boat.. I have not really fished anyone the ones I bought for loaners but I have played with them a little.. Those reels are tops at there price point I bought my nephew a few Tierra's a while back and they are sweet at there price.. and the Cabela's Prodigy preforms the same and even has a Zillion like Swept handle, all for 99.99 and you can get them all the time for 70.00.. I have bought some for loaners to and a few for my dad and nephew... when they are on sale for 69.99 and you use your Cabela's club Visa card it will reduce the price in cart to 49.99 and when I see that I bought 9 for guest reels and some for my dad and nephew... I know this is telling more then you asked but Im just trying to let you know how much of a value this reel really is... This is truthfully a reel that will fish with reels in the 160-190 dollar price range and beat some of them... The Advantage HSTA is like 169.99 and its a heck of a reel at that price... Its Factory "Super tuned" casting performance is just like the Prodigy and thats good, the HSTA will go a little lower in bait weight's but not much... and you will notice the HSTA is a tad smoother thanks to the 4 bearing handle... and you can grab these reels at 50-70 bucks NEW with ease... Tackletour gave the HSTA Editor's choice award.. and gave rave reviews about the HSTA and about how it way out preformed its price point... now take that review and drop the price to 50-70 bucks and you have a flat unbelievable deal.

Perfectly spoken/wrote RW... bravo!

JYHO , correct ??????????????????? Well I would hope you dont go home because you fish a shimano... I would understand if you had to tho. Lol JK Shimano makes great reels just not my cup of tea.. I never liked how They have casted nor the way they look.. but to each their own. Im not saying anything bad about shimano... Shimano and Daiwa are the two biggest reel companies in the world for a reason. they both make high preforming reels and rods that will last a very long time and stay flawless year after year if taken care of.

Should be moved to the "Pampers" forum imo. The both of you could have just not clicked on the link? Just about EVERYTHING has been posted on here one time or another... so if people didnt post new questions because it has been done before this forum wouldnt be very much now would it? I cant get over how people B!@#H about someone posting something but yet they still come and make their little waste of bandwidth comments when all they had to do was keep it to them selfs and not open that post! its SO funny to me... everyone just stop posting if you see one post from even 5 years ago on the subject! because the post patrol will post off topic telling you that your posting a endless thread that no one wants to read yet they still open it and reply to it but you are wrong for wasting bandwidth for posting it and they arent because they are the Post Patrol! get it right Son, They want blood.

I fish ONLY Daiwa reels, Daiwa, Evergreen and Megabass rods.. and one of the three NRX's kept a full time spot on the boat, the other two was sold off! 90% of my reels are JDM models I have a very large Limited edition collection. I do have a few USDM Zillions, Steez and Sol's 1 fuego and 1 viento. If its a reel and it isnt a Daiwa it isnt on my boat!!! Go Daiwa or go home!

A TD-Z 105, Alphas, pick you up a used Pixy spool with 6-8# line throw it on a stick that will handle 1/8oz (a rod that will handle 1/8th will handle 1/16th fairly) Throw you a set of ABEC7 bearings on the spool of any of these reels listed and the right line and rod and they will all handle a 1/16th no problem. The Steez 103 will do it to but out of the price range you said. My choice would be the TD-Z 105 because they will handle 1/16th very well and still give you a reel with some power thats ultra comfy to ffish/palm Then the Pixy TD-Z 105's are easier to find but the pixy will with out a doubt do the job better then any other reel out there.. My PX68R's out preform the two stock pixys I have (Stock cept for ABEC7's on the spool and side plate) and will go really low just as my Pixilla's will... they will go well under 1/16th and do it with much more control then a spinning reel.. the right bait caster for handling light baits is far better then doing it with a spinning reel.. I dont even bring but one spinning reel with me its a TD-Z Type R+ 2508.. and I cant remember the last time I used it.. I have BC reel that will handle baits that are lighter then anything I have on the boat to throw. If you want to be able to go low with ease and totally love the reel grab you a Pixy.. If you want more of a full size reel that is wicked comfortable to fish and is just a totally awesome reel grab you a TD-Z 105.

I want a Evergreen TMJC-66MH Air Driver SGS so bad.. I cant find one to save my soul lol... If anyone knows where one for sale is and would point me to it You would become my new bestest friend lol... All kidding aside I want one bad and I just cant seem to find any, A few months ago I had the chance to buy a used one that was a little scratched and nicked up and thats a no no so I passed on it. Now I want a new one or a used one thats mint and they just arent for sell right now. I cant buy from anyone on here because I've been told because I deal in JDM tackle I cant. So I need one listed on a site for sale or something. thanks and I really hope I can find one it would make my day!

The Zillion hands down. Lots of upgrades out there for it if you want it to cast light baits really well just buy the I'ze factory HLC spool you can get them for about 80-100 bucks. but stock the reel is a beast and the TD-Z palming profile is the best ever! once you fish one no other reel will feel right in your hands.. I throw 1/8oz baits pretty easy with the stock one (Just has ABEC 7's in it) on the right rod 1/8oz is not a problem.. most of mine have the HLC spool in them and they will go lower a little but you will get 25-30 feet more distance on a 1/8oz bait most weightless worms weigh more then 1/8oz anyhow and wind resistance will upset you more then weight will so keep that in mind. Zillions get really happy with a 1/4oz+

Im a Daiwa guy Wont ever touch anything but a Daiwa... but Bantam1 was talking great praise about the Caenan it at its price point I just gotta know!... How do you like your?

Dont you love how someone always have something pricky to say? I dont like you, lol thats a awesome badge to wear! Long casting reel=Zillion they will throw cranks from 4 grams and over a long ways... the really start to bomb them at 1/4oz and over.... I love mine for throwing 3/4 to 1oz lipless cranks... on a nice long limber crank rod you can come close to spooling them with 17# line on them... If the Zillion is out of your price range the Aggrest... I dont have one but my dad has 2 or 3 and they feel solid there smooth and cast just about the same as a Zillion casting wise you wont be able to tell them apart... The are pretty light to like 7 1/2ozs... and can be had for 140ish new.... they do feel good for the price thats for sure and look pretty good to! The frame feels pretty good in hand and you can tell that its a high quality reel. the drag is very smooth to just a overall great reel at 140-150 dollars. Only problem you may have with it is the 7.3 GR working you to death deep cranking but if you are already used to a high speed reel for cranking this one would work perfect for you... If you can spring for the Zillion you can get a Low speed Crazy cranker and not be worked hard deep cranking! I have 2 and LOVE them!

I tie a Double Palomar knot with braid and an Improved Clinch knot with everything else. Uni to Uni for all braid to leader connections.

This is VERY true, the 6'9MH XF is a TON of rod that weights 113.2 grams... it balances well with a Zillion on it this is the only one I have with a Zillion on it.. the rod is a beast of a 6'9 rod very light for the power and very sensitive.. It has no trouble pitching very heavy cover and make a good frog rod to! I like it for BIG T-Rigs 12in+ worm's with 3/8oz+ weights 55# Daiwa braid. this rod is plenty sensitive with a decent mono/coploy very sensitive with a good FC and VERY VERY sensitive with Daiwa braid.... if you are looking for a silly strong, Very Sensitive, Very powerful, good looking and light weight line of rods at 200 dollar range this rod will fit the bill and you will be VERY happy with it.... IMHO there isnt a rod in the sub 300 dollar range that will compete with this line up.... 95% of the rods that have a full time spot in my boat are 500-850 dollar rods... And for 4 of these to have a full time spot on my boat is amazing to say the least.. I have plenty of other very high end/Very high dollar JDM and Custom sticks in the rod n reel room that dont have full time spots in the boat.... I have the 691MHXF, Flipping Rod 7'6" Heavy (761HFB), Swimbait Rod 7'4" Extra Hvy (741XHFB) and the 661MXF...The are all great rods and OH SO powerful lol...

I have 6# CX on a Daiwa A.o.i 2506R And it has been flawless (However I use Spinning reels VERY little like 1-2 hours out of 50 fishing) but ive never had a break off with it. I have a 2004 TD-Z Type R+ 2506C with 8# CX on it and same thing never had a break off with it... I have 6# Shooter FC on the extra spool and comparing the two lines breaking test seems close but the CX is listed at 8# but we all know shooter over tests its listed line rating a lot... the CX is very stretchy compared to Sunline Machine Gun Cast of the same rating... I have never fished CXX but I love the way CX handles on Spinning reels and wow is it thin is 6 or 8# it is as thin maybe even a little thinner then Machine gun cast and that stuff is THIN! I have have a Alphas R/JDM Steez FLOGGER with 20# CX on it and never had a break off that I can remember.. now once again I dont fish this rig much.. I dont fish mono but every now and then... I use FC and braid or braid/FC leader on everything but top water and some times Spinner baits and lipless cranks I use the Flogger for ripping spinner baits and lipless baits through thinner hydrilla.. but most of the time I do it with braid or FC because its thick most of the time here in FL but when its not I really like doing it with mono and CX works like a champ and not to stretchy in 20# if CXX really is that much tougher and handles fairly on Spinning reels I will give it a try next time I refill with mono/copoly. And yes I know CX is Copoly but to me Copolys are mono so I call them mono as they are just coated with FC and to me there isnt much difference. One reason he maybe having break offs is CX is VERY knot sensitive even more so then most FC's it only likes a improved clinch knot and it has to be tied well.. tie it with plenty of spit on it and then pull and clinch it down SLOWLY... palomar knot=break off at the knot on CX in any pound test... if thats what you are tying thats why your breaking off.. I tested it... palomar knot well tied on the 8# stuff can be broke by hand with ease and it will break at the knot every time.. if you tie a improved clinch and tie it well it test very well and never breaks at the knot... I tested it with a few knots and I/Clinch knot takes the cake and it wont slip at all you can cut the tag as close as you want once you clinch it down.

They are Light, well balanced, very strong, sensitivity is pretty close to Steez rods... Like tackle tour said about 75% of the performance of the Steez at less then half the cost... I love my Steez sticks and have a lot of them but I have a few Zillions on the boat to and really like them! I love the reel seat.

Yuki Ito Owns Megabass and is the head designer.. His work has cost me tons of cash lol.. I love his rods and Daiwa/Ito reels.. I pretty much have every reel he designed cept for a Megabass Monoblock Bespoke Limited Grigio Titanio I cant find a new one but as soon as I do I will have it! I want one so bad I can taste it! I love All the Monoblocks I have... they are totally sick reels that preform! they preform just like my Ringa SSS's and that is Stellar!! god I want a Limited Grigio Titanio SO SO SO bad........... :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'(

This doesn't mean it's thinner. What Daiwa considers an average 8 lb. diameter line is probably different than what Cortland considers as an average 8 lb. diameter line. It may be thinner, but it will be hard to tell since Cortland doesn't provide the actual diameter of the braid. thats what I said lol... I have looked all over for the Dia. so that LB test doesnt mean anything to me... Im gonna order a spool and play with it and see what its all about.

yup this is right.... it will cast down fairly low but like he said wind resistance will be more an issue then weight.

Lol I wish he owned the lake, then I wouldnt have to worry about anyone in it other then peeps I bring! he just owns the only place you can put a boat in the water... a make shift boat ramp if there ever was one lmao! Life is pretty good right now! Ive taken some pics I just have to resize them and I dont know how to with out making them tiny... any help with that will help me get you guys up some sweet pics of NRX's with JDM Daiwa reel's on them! please help I really wanna show them off! help help help please! I put some time and effort in making these pics perfect to really show off the rods and reels in all there glory lol... I dont want the pics to come out small.. I wish they didnt limit pic size but I guess that would use up a lot of server space... if I cant get it to work ill have my bro in law do it for me.. he resized a lot of my reel pics so I could post them but I have no idea how it did it and still made them full size and perfect quality.. I have a lot more fish caught today to some good ones and one very close to 7# and a Bowfin in the 20lb range lol... that was fun and man if he would have broke my rod I would have cut him in to bits lol... stuck him on a R/T Anaconda 10in red shad. another thing to I didnt miss one fish today!! nor did I have any come unbuttoned!! I didnt count but Ide say I caught 35 today...avg about 3 to 3 1/2lb's.

Thats a Daiwa Alphas Ito Ai... very sweet reels... a little hard to keep looking reel good.. but they are light lure casting machines... And rock solid brutes that handle anything as long as lots of line cap. isnt needed... I have 5-6 of them that I fish and a few new ones and love them all.. the fish like a pro and look pretty sweet to! they clear polycarbonate palm side plate looks pretty sick. 4 of mine have ABEC9's on the spools and 2 have Orange seal ABEC7's let me tell you with a those bearing upgrades on the right rod and right line they can get down really low in casting weight... ide say they pretty much bottom out around 3 to 3 1/2 grams...Also just to let you know they can be found for really good prices.. I bought 2X new in box ones for 395.00 for both (These are in the Reel display case never fished)... and dont think i paid over 180 for the others and all was in very good to mint condition... ones with some boat rash can be had 150ish... plus they just fit inside your hand so perfectly..

you will love the Fuego, they are more less a budget TD-Z and i have some they are fine reels and cast very well will handle baits down to about 3/16th pretty easy and cast 1/4oz plus like a rocket.. they are very smooth casting and reeling have a great drag....and you will love the profile... nothing sits in hand better then a TD-Z frame its the most comfortable reel you can touch... and from what I have read those are pretty decent rods... so yeah thats a steal of a deal, ide jump all over it.

Lol I wouldnt buy a lot of it.. but a spool will fill 3 reels and it last a very long time so I dont mind buying it every here and there.

This is crazy I wanted to fish all the rods today... I havent touched anything but the 854C other then testing the 803C for HopelesslyAddicted.. OMG this rod is nice I didnt think I was gonna love it as much as I do this rod is a uber flipping stick....I think I like it more then my 7'1 Compile-X... this is insane it feels like when I first fished my first GLX years ago how good the rod felt and how it fished how I could feel things that I wasnt used to feeling (Now im used to feeling everything tho but you get the picture) I just did a side by side with the BCR803GLX and the NRX 803C... It is noticeably more sensitive (Pixys with 12# Shooter FC, 3/16oz tungsten jig with a rage tail chunk) I could feel the texture of things much more definitely feeling the hard bottom to soft bottom changes was not a test...dragging the lures over logs and feeling the texture of the bark was dull with the GLX but you could still feel it... with the NRX it was like rubbing your hand over it. I put Steez with Daiwa braid on it and left the NRX the same and well the GLX became just over so slightly more sensitive but it still felt dull in comparison to the NRX with FC hard to explain then I put braid on the NRX and it became just a little more sensitive then with FC but the rod gives such a define picture of what the lures touching... then for the reel test! Mono I used Sunline Super Natural Mono... on two Alphas R's and the GLX didnt disappoint like you know and the NRX was amazing with mono I could still fill the texture of the bark on the log fairly good so long as the cast was 35-40 feet once I got it out farther then that I stopped getting that super define feeling of the texture but I could still feel it kinda as where with the GLX I never felt that really define fine on the texture on the log... The NRX is more sensitive with Sunline Super Natural Mono then the GLX is with FC.. you really dont need a rod more sensitive then a GLX that rod gives you easy bite detection and feel of the bottom... the NRX is with ease in the top 3-4 most sensitive rods ive ever fished... those 3-4 are all so sensitive that I just couldnt really tell you witch one is more so. whats odd is this I couldnt feel the legs on a space monkey moving when I pulled it fast with the 803C NRX even with braid however with FC on the 854C I could???? thats a heavier rod and its more sensitive then a lower power rod? that one I cant understand but im not complaining lol I love the 854C Im gonna sale the 893C and buy another 854C probably I havent fished the 893 so im not sure 100% but its gonna have to excel at something to keep it from being sold. Im heading home peeps I will chat when I get home some more. I hope this told you what you wanted to know HopelesslyAddicted!!!!