JediAmoeba

Nice review. That price tag is what gets me. My limit is usually in the 200-250 range.

A man of my own heart

25 days. That's some willpower! I can't make it 25 hours.

I have a bunch of reasons - he isn't the same person when the camera is off.

We stopped fishing?

I would use 30# braid and then I can change my leader as necessary.

A buddy is looking to get a Shimano Scorpion Metanium MG knob. The knob screws into the reel handle. This is a 20 year old reel so this may be tough to track down.

Oof. I can't remember the last time I had one of THOSE. That's a bad one

At the top of my list is a glider followed by a jerkbait.

I used to throw 5 oz swimbaits on a heavy flipping stick before I had a dedicated swimbait rod. You can't throw it traditionally but you can make Lob casts just fine. Get better gear when you can, just set your drag accordingly and have fun!

I must have seen one of the same posts- everyone keeps pushing these ball bearings and the masses keep screaming this regurgitated crap imo. I just can't see why I would put a $30 ball bearing in a place that for the most part, isn't essential to be super smooth with little start up resistance.

I agree. There are far more people that I know that treat their stuff like crap - leaving rods and reels on the decks if their boats all season and never service them. It's crazy to me.

Like I said- that's good for the spool, but the handle knobs? Nah. I used to make bushings for slot cars and we.experimented with a lot of different materials. They were relatively easy to make once you were set up and depending on the material. For the material you had to figure out the speed and the type of cutter you needed but you could hit very tight tolerances. There are materials that self lubricate - we used these materials in a 24 hour slotcsr race once and the results were phenomenal.

More reasons to dislike lews... personally, I can't stand Scott Martin

Some years ago 13 fishing experimented with bushings in their reels in place of bearings. I thought this was an interesting concept but knew it would not be received well by the public due to misconceptions from marketing( i.e. more ball bearings = better.) Anyone that pays attention to Shimano will know this isn't true - bushings are bearings, just as a ball bearings are a bearing. Shimano and Daiwa generally utilize ball bearings with correct placements like the spool bearings and then will use bushings where it makes sense. In all honesty I don't know why people want their reel handles to spin for eternity beyond it being cool. I find it annoying in actual fishing applications and end up packing my handle ball bearings with grease so they are smooth but don't spin freely - this could be achieved much easier with bushings. There are so many materials on the market that make fantastic bushings, although some can be difficult to machine. But I wonder why companies are not focusing on this? Why is there no aftermarket bushing manufacturers? Bushings would be highly useful in areas that get neglected in reels or are hard to lubricate for the layman. Places like the main drive shaft, the worm gear and the handles. The only bushings you see are delrin in daiwa but they could do so much better IMO. Ball bearings are relatively expensive if you get good ones. They can be susceptible to corrosion and collecting grit which seizes them up. Ball bearings are great for the spool which is a high speed application that needs quick start ups, but the rest of the reel doesn't ever reach high speeds really and doesn't need to start up quickly. This is obviously my opinion, what is everyone else's on the matter?

I think you are right but I wasn't sure. I could tear one of mine open and look but wanted to see if anyone knew so I didn't have to. Lol A guy wants all ceramics put in his reel because he constantly dunks them when float tubing in the river. This is not a normal bearing where you would want or need an all ceramic, but it's not money... I asked if he just wanted me to chuck up some delrin or other material in a lathe and make a bushing but he decided against that.

I will push the wrong technique (big swimbaits) way past the point of intelligence looking for that huge fish. I will say poppers can be fished many different ways - in the right circumstances they can be fished as fast as possible in a walk the dog motion. Literally ripping it like you are trying to get the bait back to you as fast as possible. Other times it will be a methodical pop, pop, pause. The pause mat be a.few seconds or up to 30 seconds. I love fishing yellow magics and usually have one with me.

Pros rarely use top of the line rods - most are using $100-200 rods and they don't seem to have problems with bite detection.

Does anyone know what the bearing size is for a 21 Zillion pinion support bearing? The one that is in the side plate under the cast control knob.

Very nice. Great to see how transparent the owner was!

Who is buying 1? I bought 8 packa and it was $102 shipped - that's 12.75 each.

I have so many cranks but I have never had a 6th sense bait. I don't know why but they have never been on my radar.

https://www.kkjapanlure.com/products/jackall-revoltage-rv-drift-fry-4-0-new.html Quick search and I get this...

The store I bought it from now has it listed for $138. WIHIWI Store.

Those are expensive- buy them straight from Japan for about half the price.