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The LFS and Super Duty both have magnetic brakes which are fixed with no moving parts, but the BB1 has free-flying brake blocks. If you shake the reel, you will hear the brake blocks pinging the metal friction surface they use to create friction. There's nothing wrong with it. It's not a defect. The handle is held on by a single nut. The nut is kept from rotating by a retainer plate. If the handle is a bit loose on the crankshaft, you can tighten it easily by removing the retainer, then LIGHTLY tightening the nut a skosh, then replace the retainer. DO NOT crank down the nut. This is about the simplest operation you can perform on a reel. Great reel BTW.

It wasn't me, homie.

I have a Tatula SV, and I like it, but as an addition to a reel collection and not a primary reel, IMO. You may tire of it quickly without other options. Check out the Tatula 150 or the Lew's BB1 pro. Both are versatile reels with spool sizes that allow for or a range of line sizes, and they're less limited than the SV. Both are externally adjustable. The Lew's will be a skosh trickier to learn on compared to the 150, but its braking system is less touchy than its centrifugally braked contemporaries. You'll probably figure it out quickly.

I really wanted to sneak in a good night session before the DEC dumps in a truckload of 8" rainbows any day now, plus rain was coming overnight. On one hand the stocking is great because it grows our bass bigger, but in the short term it wrecks the bite. It takes time for a bass to digest a trout or two in 41 degree water. Not that I needed any more inspiration, but my brother sent me a pic of a pretty dink he picked off right before he had to work a night shift. Based on the past I wanted to hit one specific cove, then trek down the length of the lake to a channel that wraps around an island. The in-between is typically dead this time of year, so unless I spot-lit bait along the way I was sticking to the plan. It looked like I had the place to myself when I pulled up, and my anticipation was ramping up as I made my way through the woods and down towards the cove. Too bad for me, but Danny the Carp guy was set up in my spot. Unlike the typical carp mooks who show up occasionally, Danny's cool, and he's hardcore. He takes carp fishing very seriously, and doesn't rudely drop poles on every cut down a shoreline. He only takes up one. Dude even has portable livewell on shore as he's C&R. He mentioned that he was doing an overnight, so I said my "hi and good luck" as I jetted my way past him and up towards the channel way up the lake. Halfway to my spot a wave of Canadian geese honked thier way overhead then crashed down right outside the island near the channel of my salvattion. It took mere minutes before they went to war with what I assume were geese already occupying the zone, or maybe they just started fighting with eachother. It was very dark, so who knows? Wings beat the water from one shoreline to the other, and there I stood feeling like a schmuck with a stupid amount of slings and tacklebags weighing me down like an absurd pack animal. Oh, and I had seven rods slung over my shoulder like a stack of 2 x 4s. Men make plans... The in-between zone was dead as a doornail as predicted, so after 3 hours of trying and just 3 tiny nibbles I threw in the towel and made my way back to the cove. I'm not really in wading-shape yet anyway, so my azz was kicked from working my way down and up some of the steeper banks. Had I caught a fish or two, the rush would've anethestized my lower back for sure, but absent of that fantasy scenario I was done. Just as I got to the cove, and just oppsosite of Danny, there was huge expolsion in the water right in front of me which sounded like a killshot from a big Pickeral or a big Bass. I asked him if he heard it, and he asked me if I snagged his line. I hadn't, so I told him it must be a carp. He reeled into it, then yelled out that it was huge. I got there as he netted this monster, then helped him get it out and up into the livewell. He drove a bolt into a tree with an impact driver, hung his scale on it, then I helped him load it into a weigh-bag. 3 feet long and 25.2lbs. I helped him release this thing, and I was surprised by its power during the process. It rocketed off like nothing had happened. Not my night at all, but pretty neat nonetheless. I'd never seen a carp this big in person. Knowing a bass this big has been caught is just crazy, especially with this experience fresh in my mind. Elsewhere my buddy went yakkin' and got 'em on a Bucca Bullwake 4X4.

Factor in a $50 special service tool if you DIY the maintenance.

Not really. They're jig hooks. Sounds like you weren't getting a good hookset to begin with.

Awesome fish! Perfect picture! P.S. I'll never go skinny dipping in Ohio now. Yikes.

OK. Good thing I've been watching my figure lately.

I mailed mine in last week and just got the shipping notification today. Not bad considering many rebates seem to take a lifetime to receive.

The 70/80/Alphas aren't Aldebaran small, but they're small. Do you like small reels? Small doesn't always mean the most comfortable depending on your hand size/shape. Daiwa somehow managed to make the Tat 80's narrow spool weigh as much as a Tat CT's, so I'd guess the 70 SV's doesn't weigh any less than the 12-ish gram SV103's, which in that case there wouldn't be much of a light-bait casting advantage gained by the 70. However, if the 70 has the gear train of the 80, which it should, it'll be quite smooth running. The Tat 80 is a very smooth reel.

I'd build a space station without TVs or radio, but with a spectacular bass lake. I might even shuttle a few of you jokers up occasionally to fish it as long as you promised not to burn my spot.?

Bingo!

It's a CDM reel. @Bluebasser86 bought one AFAIK. Perhaps he has the latitude to speak about how and where to find one.

If you aren't a braid to leader type and are likely to use stiffer mono like XT, copoly like Advance, and less than premium fluoro, the T-wing is the way to go. Stiffer plastic lines simply flow through it and are easier to manage. It's a noticeable difference to me, so all of my T-wing reels are spooled with some type of plastic line. My 2 Fuegos are spooled with straight braid. No steenkin' leaders for me, no offence.

It tastes like something I couldn't stand as a kid, and with an Irish father I had to eat it under penalty of a medieval Irish whooping. It tastes worse ice cold after sitting at the table for 2 hours after everyone had finished. I took the clobbering more than once.

Hardcore, man!

He was pretty convincing! Who knew they were made from an unusual material too?

Yes, because I needed to find one with a perfect vertical line tie position relative to the head, brush guard angle, and a head shape which allows me to get them through milfoil draped in filamentous algae. Everything else is secondary to being able to retrieve one without it getting totally bogged down along the way.

Nugz mouse. Cool.

JDM Catalina TW 7spd Irod Swimbait Jr 7'8" MHM or Daiwa Tatula XT 7'3" HF 20lb Big Game. P.S. The stock hooks suck. Most anything you like will be better.

Ima Suspending Vibration Lipless Crankbait - Tackle Warehouse

They work up here in the north. Even a 2lb bass will try to eat those quite often. It's a myth that big baits weed out smaller bass. Buy some and try them, but at the same time don't neglect buying and trying 4"-5" class hard baits also, and let your fish tell you what they're most interested in at the moment. A 5-7lb bass that's in a feeding mode will eat a crappie magnet, so they're quite happy to eat a 4" hard swimbait if it's presented properly. 4" may sound small, but they're not really all that small compared to conventional bass baits like 1.5-2.5 sized cranks, so they have drawing power. Additionally, they're a manageable meal for bass when the water is in the 30's and low 40's where they're metabolism is very slow. During my last two trips in 37*-38* water, every bite and fish caught came on a 4" Spro BBZ-1 Shad Floater weighted down for an ultra-slow sink and worked back as slowly as humanly possible. It was the most interesting bait to the fish. Nothing else even got a sniff.

Strike King 5" Caffeine Shad, Green Pumpkin Sapphire Strike King KVD Perfect Plastic Caffeine Shad 5" 8pk - Tackle Warehouse GY Senko 6", Watermelon/Black Flake 6" Senko - Yamamoto Baits MegaBass Hazedong Shad 4.2", Green Pumpkin Blue/Numa Ebi/Moroku HAZEDONG SHAD 4.2in - Megabass (megabassusa.com) Beast Coast Miyagi Swimmer, Dope Gill 4.75'' MIYAGI Swimmer - Dope Gill (beastcoastfishing.com) Yum Wooly HawgCraw, Dark Grasshopper YUM WOOLY® HAWGCRAW-Dark Grasshopper-4" (lurenet.com)

I'll PM you instead of clogging up the works here.