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Ok so I caught this fatgirl in April on some cornmeal jello balls I whipped up. Just thrown on a hook. What I didn't realize is that carp is one of the species on the list for a local fishing contest and this fatgirl would have held 1st place for awhile being 21lb. So I need to catch another one, however I can't get em to eat a d**n thing as of late! I fish an old rock quarry and there's a ton of big ones in there but they just don't seem to take bait. Tried my corn meal jello balls again, boilies, canned corn, feed corn soaked in water/ vanilla solution. I've even given the hair rig a go just in case they're being touchy. Still nada! Any advice?! I'm really not much of a bait fisherman anymore, but as a kid all my and my pop did was throw canned corn on a hook and chum with corn when river fishing for carp and that always did the job. I have been chumming plenty too. Thinking no bites has something to do with the spawn which should be about over?

I grabbed me a great condition Metanium '16 off eBay. I love the reel but found out it has one fault...the thumb bar rubber will pop off on you. I was lucky to not lose it the first time. Superglued back on but I can tell it's loose and will likely pop off again...superglue doesn't bond too well to rubber nor metal. Is epoxy a good idea?

They do have a 6'9" MH, sweet! And the fact that it's a 2 piece is an added bonus for me. Never even heard of Major Craft but I just ordered one anyway. Kind of surprised shipping price is included if it's coming straight from Japan ha, it's a steal if it works out.

Not able to find a ton of info on these rods out there. Looking at the 6'9" MH, it's quite difficult finding a light MH under 7' in the $150 range. Seems handle is longer than I'd like for a jerk rod.

All I'm really asking for are 6" jerkbaits! They barely exist! My setup allows me to simultaneously fish for bass, walleye and esox but I'm missing out on the esox because my baits just aren't big enough. Husky jerk is closest I can get to 6", but I really can't stand em because they have no weight transfer system and cast like crap. Husky jerk magnum is 6.25" but it's made for trolling. Lucky Craft has some 158s, but these fools know that they have the market corned and are charging $30 a piece for their garbage baits. I mean cmon, there's plenty of huge bass swimbaits out there, why not jerks?!

If by drum you're referring to a metal ring around the side plate, there is none. Pure plastic. I have 2 brakes on, 2 off. Nope, taking off side plate they're both engaging eachother fine.

My Shimano began to lose distance and seems to be making a bit of a whirring sound when casting. I pulled it apart, cleaned, oiled up, and even replaced spool bearing with a ceramic bearing. Still the same, no difference. I imagine it's related to the brakes but don't know how I can clean and oil them up. Don't know what kind of brake system they use but it's sure not centrifugal.

Yea I got it on there properly but I got a right handed nut instead of a left and the friggin handle came off again after reelin in a 23" walleye!! ? Obvious it unscrewed itself...Shimano sendin me the left handed nut.

Welp thankfully it was just the nut, I bet I cross-threaded last time I tried getting it back on. Still not sure how it could've come off by itself though. New one is snug as a bug. I guess $10 isn't bad considering what it would cost to get the reel repaired ?

Didn't lose either, I lost the star drag spring. Handle nut is what I believe is stripped. I still have the nut cap. @shackman Somebody told me I will probably need a new drive shaft as well. Sucks cuz I already ordered new handle nut but maybe I can call them tomorrow and have em add a shaft to my order. Tell me is changing the drive shaft difficult? There's easily close to 100 parts to this thing looking at the manual...hoping I don't have to completely take it apart to change shaft.

@bulldog1935 I was looking at the hedgehog handle nuts, but I'm not sure that the M7 will fit. Measuring the nut with my calipers, I got 10mm spanner size. @garroyo130 Just over a year old I believe. Thing is, I did purchase it from someone on FB and it was in like new condition. Guy said he just wasn't a fan of it.... Not sure if he would have had a reason to take the handle off on a new reel but I guess it's possible.

The handle nut. It will not stay tight on the shaft. Once it gets snug hand tightening, I use a wrench and it will just keep turning. I may have overtightened and stripped it last time I put it on. Question is, why did it pop off in the first place? Read that it shouldn't come loose without already having been removed and I never removed it.

Ya probably the case. Seems the draft shaft threading is messed up a little bit but not the part where the retainer nut screws onto. Any Amazon nuts I've searched for are not proper size. I guess I gotta drop $10 to Shimano for a silly nut.

Was fishing one day and handle came off my Curado MGL. Screwed with it for a bit and got it back on. A week or two later, fishing again and handle pops off again. This time lost star drag spring. Ordered a new spring, now I can't get the retainer nut to stay on. Must have stripped it somehow...even though it will screw on fine with the handle off I must have messed up a tiny bit of thread. Anyway, where can I get a new one besides shimano? Over $10 with shipping. Spanner size measures 10mm so that would equate to M6 nut...not finding anything else out there.

Yeeha that was it! I must have been gripping the line off to the right when spooling. Gripped rod a little higher and made sure to keep fingers directly in center while applying tension, now it's perfect. Looks like I could have fit at least another 25 yards of line on my spool too ?