Mick5664

If it were me id hire a guide for 1/2 or full day. For what you'd pay for a rental boat and not knowing anything about the area, a guide will put you on the fish immediately, all day long. Plus youll probably learn some new tactics. There is one guide i know of, because I wanted to hire him to fish and learn the Delta, his name is Bobby Barrack. Look him up on line. He's not only a guide he's an instructor, teacher. He's pretty busy as most good guides are, so I'd contact him ASAP or when your other plans are solid. Good luck and great fishing to you.

I too was rebuilding or updating my "inventory" of baitcasters and initially bought the 200E6. Very nice real, but it didn't seem to cast like my old 100 so I upgraded the bearings to the orange Boca ceramic bearing. It was like night and day. Before the upgrade I was not getting the distance I was getting from my old Curados and old Chronarch 100, hence the Boca orange ceramic upgrade. Now... with an effortless unhand roll cast I can cast further than I need to in most cases. With that being said I shopped ebay and found some bargains and purchased 5 more Chronarch 200E series reels. Made the Boca upgrade to not only those 5 reels but the 5 Curados. I ran into a deal with Boca I couldn't pass up. With all that being said the Chronarch 200E series reels are a great reel out of the box. But for $24 (for both bearings) you'll have a reel that will rival any reel, any reel. I've never cast a Calais but it can't be much better than these that I have. Oh... if you do purchase the Boca ceramic bearings, according to the rep I spoke with he stated, "These bearings are not to be lubed." If you do lube them clean them with brake cleaner, let them dry and reinstall and go fishin'