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I definitely wouldn't throw the reel away (unlike my shelved Lew's Custom Inshore with it's way-too-heavy mag + centrifugal combo spool add-on). But you do need to analyze what's going on with your backlash. Adding to the two excellent posts above, I've found linear mag brakes are best for smooth distance casting, and do their best work preventing mid-cast wind backlash. Here's the short version: There are 3 types of backlash, and 4 types of brakes. The first is spool start-up overshoot. Centrifugal brakes deal with this the best. The second is wind backlash, which occurs in the middle of your cast as your lure is approaching its highest vertical point, and gravity is slowing it - mag brakes work best here - the same for wind and light lures. The last backlash is over-run after your lure hits the water - thumbs take care of this. The fourth brake type is spool tension, which is a constant load on the spool. While spool tension can brake all 3 types of backlash, it costs the most cast distance. Here's the long version, that I first wrote for a friend on another forum about using braid (20-lb 832) with linear mag brake Super Duty

@MIbassyaker Yeah, warmouth are Lepomis sp., and do better in warmer and stiller water than what I call rock bass, Ambloplites, sp. I catch the latter in our coldwater tailrace. When I was a kid, my dad and I knew a couple of spots on Canyon Lake where the warmouth bedded up like crappie, and we caught (and ate) some bruisers.

Japan trout plugs replaced with #6 salt hooks for inshore winter and early spring glass minnows

Texas Tackle for the big stuff. For the really small stuff, search on Amazon for Jeweler's split ring pliers.

ok, I'll show one reel stand hook keeper And this is the $5 hex-shaft version from Gomexus - Legalis, Revros, Emeraldas, Nasci, Sedona, Sierra, Sienna. (though they want $10 for the Shimano/Daiwa common that goes into reel body threads).

Paul Newmann's is the only grocery store pizza I can swallow. Trader Joe's makes pretty good, and I really like their spanakopita.

they traditionally make both marghereta pizza and white pizza in southern Italy, and it's astoundingly good - yes, all about the bread.

Guess I didn't see the rod thread, and would have given the same basic answer - I'd hate to limit myself - there's too much fun to try out there in different niches, and especially, quality available at just about every price level. You often can't find the latter without looking past the brand. Just bought my first Daiwa (matching a rod and niche, and because I liked the spool diameter) - don't expected it to replace my Lew's, just like my Shimano's won't replace my Tica's. Rather than picking by brand, I pick by features I need for my niche and expectations. If a reel meets or exceeds my expectations, I might be back for another, or may try something different next time.

that's actually my buddy's pizza oven - he has - one portable, that one also propane-fired, and a wood-burner. Sorry, I can't tell you the brand, but love the results when I visit, and also when he brings the smaller oven car camping (or RV). And yes, it doesn't travel without the stone.

here's my buddy Josh last weekend fishing a run in the upper Frio for Texas brook trout (endemic Guadalupe bass) The mid-length, mid-weight venerable glass rods from the 60s and 70s are a big advantage in little water like this.

well yes, but you can't take it on a camp out Stevo has the wood-fired at home.

on a camp out once we compromised with hot dog pizza - Randy wanted the gucci dogs sourced from his butcher, Steve bought the pizza oven w/ stone and sourdough. It was quite good. so was the fishing and yes, we always eat well

colloquial names for fish are acceptable for common names. In s. Texas, if it's not a bass, it's a "perch" - to me it's a bluegill, and I know the species distinctions in detail. "Googleye" here gets used for rock bass (below), warmouth (^) and green sunfish, and it's listed that way in the official state (TPWD) species database. In much of the Mississippi drainage, "striper" is used for white bass. All that matters with colloquial common names is that we understand each other.

pretty d**n tall horse indeed Have you thought about speaking for yourself rather than simply contradicting others who are trying to help the OP, or engaged in a conversation with other members?

stainless doesn't wear, it just work-hardens. UK custom machines 6.3 gears for round Abu (that's like 9.3 gears on LP bait). These are 5.3 stainless gears.

@new2BC4bass I finally killed my 4400SS lifting big mackerel below the boat. But I still fished it intermittently another 10 years, mostly fishing baitcaster, before adding Libra SX3000 (read 5000). I was really happy when Shimano introduced the '19 Stradic, in 4000 size, perfect for my inshore niche.

all the makers share common manufacturing technologies and design goals, and smokescreen them in silly marketing tradenames - a technique in business marketing classes that's academically called The Snow Job. To our OP's question, the best way to look at reels is the IPT - inches of line picked up each handle turn. Spool diameter is part of the formula, if you look at a round Abu with its big spool, 5.3 gears are just as fast pick-up as 7.5 gears on the smaller-spool low-profile bait reel. Most reels are going to give you a working IPT of 30-40 inches - below that range is slow, and above that range is f'n fast. As far as spinning reel handle length, think you may be looking at it wrong. A longer handle lets you put more torque into the reel. It also has the effect of slowing it down, since you travel farther to complete a handle rotation. Conversely, a shorter handle has the effect of speeding up any reel, since you can spin it really quickly. I personally don't like gears past 8.0, on bait reels, and 6.0 on spinning reels, unless I put a longer-pitch handle on them. I know we have BFS and offshore spinning reels, but traditionally, bait reels are about power, and spinning reels about finesse.

A buddy hooked a good size sunfish on his fly rod, and brought it in wedged in the mouth of a 4-lb largemouth. An acquaintance on TKF forum posted a photo from Lake Fork of a respectable bass he brought in wedged in the mouth of a larger largemouth. We accused them both of baitfishing

Orange anodize always looks sharp. Lew's picked it for the Team Pro SP, Tica used it for trim on Libra SX, and Daiwa offers a whole range. Daiwa ran a color aftermarket parts blitz in Oz/NZ called the Custom Project, that also made its way to Europe.

It's been described enough different ways and even diagrammed. Then other discussions took over, kind of norm for the forum. any list of threads diverted by Mr. Francho would be grossly abridged.

ok, we need a photo on a new page. I haven't bought a fly rod for hill country endemic bass in awhile (I've also sold a few to fund other projects). When a friend pointed out this desirable Phillipson from 1966, I set up an ebay snipe and bought it for a very fair price. I've had the Hardy reel for a long time, but this venerable glass rod will do anything a 9' graphite 5-wt will do, and fits in tighter places.

sorry there, bro @garroyo130 The best one made for hex-shaft is the Dress Origin, also sold by Hedgehog. Hedgehog makes their house brand. There are also cost-effective hex-shaft choices from Gomexus and China. This one from China has both the 3-mm thread for Daiwa and the 3.5 mm thread for old Shimano. Hedgehog has this page that explains the different types. It probably shows that I can't imagine a spinning reel without one of these for a hook keeper.

If you want it to work and wear 30+ years, stick to Gore-Tex (and the brands that use it) My Marmot light shell and Hagloff's rain pants were both closeouts bought at sierratradingpost that many years ago.

In s. Texas, I'll take the cool respite, because last week was too early summer hot and humid - a month ahead of when it normally hits. It is surprising to look at the 10-day forecast with a few lows in the 40s. Now I get pleasant cool weather when I chop the back acre next week.

@BassWhole! An e-friend whom I've never met, but we go Way back on venerable glass fly rods and vintage reels - after I posted a "pimped" Tica on FFR, Paul sent me 5 new Ticas with a blank check to customize his - I shot a lot of photos to communicate with him, and my choices critiqued and approved by his daughter's artsy eye. While I've always done some of this, a 20-yr hobby business repairing antique reels and speculating in antique tackle bought me a lot of toys - 2020 needed stay home hobbies, and courier from Japan was the only functioning shipping, so some of my tendencies fleshed out a bit. Even before then, my close friend Lou, who both fishes and cycles with me regularly (most every salt trip) had me order him a compliment of the Tsubaki hook keepers for all his Shimano's - that's the style keeper in the first 3 photos of the post you quoted. I've been shopping in Japan a long time - back when you had to use a broker, both because of language barrier and Japan banking restrictions. Masamichi at noppin.com has ordered me a bench-made fly reel, a rolled-from-scratch inshore S-glass fly rod, delivered my first Japanese XUL Rockfish rods more than a dozen years ago, and more recently brokered these trick add-on hook keepers for Livre reel stands that only come from Squid Mania.