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I recently got a new boat. And mounted a brand new motorguide x3 65lb thrust. It runs great and powerful but I was surprised when I first turned it on at the lake at out loud this trolling motor is. Not the mount making noise shifting around or anything. Just the noise from the motor running. I haven't fished a motorguide in prob 10 years, as the last few boats I've owned I had minnkotas on. So I was shocked at how loud this one is. I pretty much have no confidence when fishing with this trolling motor. In my mind it scares away any fish within a 40 yard radius of the boat lol. My question is, Is there anyway to quiet this trolling motor? I'd like to get it as quiet as a minnkota. Maybe use a different prop?. Are there any options, before I have to pull this trolling motor off and drill more holes into my deck to mount a minnkota, cuz I doubt the mounting bolts are located the same as a motorguide.

Hi, i just bought a brand new calcutta 400B for throwing swimbaits. Today i brought it fishing and it rained, like pouring rain for hours. I guess i had the reel on the deck on my boat upside down, and when i picked it up alot of water came out of 2 tiny holes in the bottom of the reel. If you look at the reel from the bottom, there is a hole directly on the bottom of each side plate. I guess alot of water got in there. My question is, is there any danger in water getting in the reel like that and either rusting the internal components or washing away grease and oil? And if so how do you allowed water gettin in there exspecially when you rinse this reel off?/ thanx

alright but what about it takes alot more effort to turn the handle when the spool is touching the non crank side plate. If there is slack in the spool and it is all the way to the left/touching the non crank side plate then it is alot less smooth and actually takes more effort to turn the handle. Is that normal?

It sounds like the spool was rubbing agaisnt something. I notice that there was slack in the spool. thats why when i rotated it with the crank side down there was no noise, but when i rotated it with the crank side up it made alot of noise, because the spool was all the way agaisnt the non crankside plate. So i figured it has to do with the spool touching something inside of the reel on the non crank side. After i took it apart and cleaned the spool and everywhere the spool touches on the non crank side. I noticed a tiny nick/gouge on the inside of the spool, its right where the the non crank side plate touches the spool. I took a picture to show yall, its terrible quailty but u can see where the nick is located. it u look right below the middle brake ull see a small black dot right in that circle on the outside of the brakes. Could this be causeing the noise?

Hi i have an older revo toro 5.4:1 ratio reel(right handed). I bought it off of a guy on Ebay that said it was a new reel. It turned out to be a display that im sure people have been rough on for years. After the intial aggravation from the ebay seller not telling me this info, i figured i needed to get it serviced. Because it was making alot of noise and wasnt very smooth. It probably have old grease in it i assumed. At first i serviced it myself and it was alittle better then when i got it. But i was not satified,so i took it to a professional to have him service it. He serviced it and i just got it back today. The reel is smoother than before i brought it to him but now it is making alot more noise. After playing around with the reel i realized that the reel makes no noise at all and is perfectly smooth when it is held with the crank side rotated all the way down(reel rotated to the right with the crank side pointing directly at the ground). And when you operate the reel while rotating the reel back to the original posistion(Crank side pointed directly to the right) it starts making noise, and the further the keep rotating the reel counter clockwise it makes more and more noise and gets less smooth. To where when the crank side is pointing directly up to the sky it makes a ton of noise and is totally not smooth at all. I was wondering if anyone knows what is causing this to happen. If its something simple it would probably to easier for me to fix it myself then bringing the reel back to the guy that serviced it. Thanx

thanx guys, thats what it is. And yea i just left it alone. Im gonna have to read up on them cause i dont see how that bearing keeps the anti reverse from slipping, lol

there is a part on the crank side plate that looks like its press into the side plate. Its where the crank goes through the side plate. It is a cylinder with a bunch of small metal rods in it. I guess it works simialar to a ball bearing to help the crank spin with less resistance. I cant find what it is called. But im servicing my reel and i need to know if you lubercate that part with oil or grease. It looks like it had grease it in but i just wanna make sure before i grease it. Thanx

alright thanx for the explaination!

i just bought a new ambassadeur 6600 bcx that i was gonna use for swimbait fishing, i was playin around with it and testing how strong the drag is by holdin my thumb on the spool , turning the handled and tryin to hold the spool from turning, and it seemed very strong, so i was curious and looked up the max drag on the reel which is 12.5 pounds. Seemed low to me because i remembered seeing my quantum kinetic max drag was 18 pounds. I orginally thought max drag was : example (if the max drag is stated to be 12.5 pounds then with the drag set as tight as possible it would take 12.5 pounds to make the reel let out line) now im thinking that im wrong about that cuz it seems hard to believe that a small low profile reel like a quantum kinetic would have a stronger drag system then a ambassadeur 6600. Can someone plz correct me or explain to me what (max drag) means.

i got one recently, its my fav reel, very smooth, i use it for a finesse application, casting and pitching 1/8 ounce lures, but im sure it would work just as well with heavier lures

ive caught several alligators, turtles, snakes, eels, a bullfrog, a house cat, a couple sharks, a sea gull( it was like flying a kite on a fishing rod) , a duck, a dolphin, the wierdest though, which is similar to another posters on the thread was one day when fishing with my gf, she casts, unknowing at that very moment a large domesticated duck comes flying from behind to directly infront of us at probably 40 mph. My gf saw it at the last mintue and engaged the reel to hopefully stop the lure from meeting the duck. It was too late the lure landed directly on my ducks back and snagged it. This was a very strong duck, hooking it didnt slow it down one bit, it kept flyin and ran all the line outta my gfs reel then broke it where it was tied to the spool.

well what cuases deformation?

i did read the first part, but i havent seen the second part of the review, thanx for post that.. after reading the results, makes u wonder if flourocarbon is any better than just using mono...wut really bothers me is that flouro gets deformed when strained, does it weaken as well?? i fish in thick cover, i have to break off 2 or 3 worms when snagged each fishing trip, wut the hell is happening to my line when i do that?

i kinda wanted to stay away from braid, and i concidered tatsu but i couldnt get over the price, lol, what do u guys think about 12 pound test for soft plastics? is it strong enough for the impact of a powerful hookset? i would probably beable to cast farther and it wouldnt be as stiff, but i wonder if its strong enough

Knowing close to nothing about flourocarbon i bought a spool of berkely vanish. At first it seemed fine except the fact it took several trys tieing a knot to get it to hold without breaking. I did however know that certain knots worked better with flourocarbon than others. So after researching and trying every (flourocarbon approved knot) unsuccessfully, i came to the conclusion that the knots were not the problem it was the line itself. After fishing with it a few more times the line started breaking at various places and the knot tieing got worse, it would take up to 10 trys to get a knot to hold. I decided to start researching flourocarbon brands. Turns out berkely vanish is one of the worse brands, i did find otheres that had very good reviews. Seaguar invizx, p-line 100% flourocarbon were 2 that caught i eye. So i went and picked up a spool of seaguar invizx flourocarbon in 15 pound test. The knot tieing seems alot better, but this line seems really stiff. Doesnt cast very well when casting light lures. The fluorocarbon is going on my fienesse rod and reel. Its a 6'10" medium falcon bucoo micro rod, and a quantum tour edition pt baitcasting reel. I cast very light lures, mainly ill be casting a 4 3/4" zoom finesse worm wieghtless. It wieghs around 1/8 ounce. So i need a line that has a very small diamaiter and isnt too stiff so i can cast it very far, yet i would like it to be atleast 14 pound test. I need the line to have very little stretch, small diamaiter and plyable so it can cast far, and have good knot strength, something that doesnt take 10 trys to get a knot to hold and doent have much memory. Prefeably flourocarbon, but a low stretch mono would work too. I know this is alot to ask from a line. But if anyone knows of a line that has these qualities plz give me some suggestions. Thanx