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@QUAKEnSHAKE With Duel X-wire PE#0.8, I had no problem fitting 100 m of 16-lb test braid.

Yours is easy - directions here on Hedgehog https://www.hedgehog-studio.co.jp/product/1734 Most Shimano and Abu are simple - all you need to do is remove the spool to get to the screws. This is the ugly one, and Daiwa is also this complicated https://www.hedgehog-studio.co.jp/product/2110 @redmeansdistortion yeah, I was working on that, and coffee at the same time...

From your list, I would take the J-Braid. I'll agree with others that Sufix 832 is rounder and better-behaved than most braids. The better braids I use include Florida Fishing Products (likely Varivas), YGK on spinning, and Duel X-wire on baitcaster.

best fluorocarbon leader I've used is YGK. V12 especially for abraision resistance. Seaguar Blue and Gold are close to these, and I would recommend Seaguar Gold for improved abrasion resistance. adding a ps - the most limp and most abraision-resistant fluorocarbon main line I've tried is Toray ExThread.

The square carton prevents the round rod tube from rolling halfway off the conveyor. For multipiece rods, the triangle tube the post office gives away works even better. I've shipped dozens of valuable rods properly packed (in a rod tube) inside Priority Mail triangle tubes and never had one damaged.

They call it a reel stand, but its primary function is a hook keeper This one is Tsubaki President, and that treble is on a 6" offshore plug.

My buddy Lou somehow bought two Twin Power reels from AP. They arrived on consecutive days, and AP wouldn't pay for return shipping. So I bought it from Lou. Nice reel.

watch this gent's reverse spiral cast - you can practice this in your back yard or driveway. Adding a ps here, my best skipping combo is definitely a moderate action rod - S-glass blend, optimized for 1//2 oz, and will cast down to 1/8 oz The reel brakes were set up on initial build and never need changing.

if that were true, it would be a thrust bearing rather than a radial bearing. It's there to pin radial deflection in the spindle from pinion gear loads. Torsion on long spindles creates bending deflection. Here are classic winding plate designs with thrust bearings. In both reels, the spindle rides in a bushing.

The king of bushing reels lasted 100 years in tournament casting. But it was it replaced in just 10 years once ball bearing spools were available. http://www.realsreels.com/customABURecordreelsDaveBrown.html And just like ball bearings, not all bushings were created equal. Benchmade Meek, Shakespeare, Jack Welch Heddon and Talbot made excellent reels that likely still have good bushings if you find one today, 100 years later. you couldn't count on equivalent performance or life from Enterprise or Pflueger from the same time period as those great tournament casting reels.

My buddy Josh took this photo. There's a 19-1/2" redfish making a good run against my spring-scale-set drag. It shows how long the fast mid is on this rod. I have the 7'7" spinner, there is added heavy butt, but even longer soft tip. I'm not sure how close the bait rod would be, but really don't notice the soft tip on the 7'1" bait rod except in its light-end casting ability.

@NorthernBasser oops - I checked 13Fishing - they're OOS. Tackle Warehouse carries them, but they're also OOS on the ML, both 6'8" and 7'1" Sorry.

My ML niche is most often 3" Z-man Minnow-Z on 1/8-oz Texas-Eye jigheads.

It's sold as a saltwater rod, but Omen Green ML is in stock and affordable. It's one you couldn't pry from my hands, etc. (and Eric, you know I have spendier rods to choose...) Fishing 1/8 oz inshore, I can feel blades of grass in this rod.

@redmeansdistortion has the best lead for you. When I order from hedgehog studios in Japan, I remember to throw them in with my larger orders. https://www.hedgehog-studio.co.jp/product-list/284

Lew's Super Duty G and ZPI Alcance (I'm guessing some Revo's as well) have 3. There's a third BB in the spool tension cap. Note, however, the spool cap bearing doesn't engage the spool spindle at all during casting - it functions as the pinion gear bearing during cranking. Certainly one reel and one application niche is no statistical sample. If there is a such thing as a dumb question, it would be one that wasn't asked as a question, but masked as a dumb opinion. I can present two backlash-proof improved-BB reels that will both cast from 1/16 oz to over an ounce, and both without making reel adjustments over the weight range. The braid-raced Ambassadeur is also the best skipping reel I've ever used.

Actually this tool and the Roro copy is the only one that can reach the pin on a Daiwa floating spool without full end flanges - the spool bearing is recessed into the spool hollow. Same holds for Lew's SP, which is the spool in the left photo.

This thread is all over the place for need a 2nd rod and reel (baitcast) with X-budget. I'll second the Zillion SV TW recommendation - the SV-TW-G is listed on Amazon. May want to study bottom contact rods on this forum page to pick a rod that will gain you the most.

Keeping the dust (even the salt) off your spare spinning spools isn't tough if you store them in the right-size spool cans. When you apply drag grease, especially to new carbontex washers, make sure you get the inside and outside thickness. Wet everything with the grease, then remove everything you can - you just want the film with no extra grease.

What's limited in aftermarket Chinese handles is they're just about all 120 mm long. That's a long handle, 60 mm pitch (even 50 mm pitch). You don't get a choice, and can't tune the handle length to the reel gearing. You may get tired of cranking lures on that long handle, and with a low-geared reel, may actually lose the ability to keep up with a charging fish. That happened to a friend who put a Gomexus double handle on a small low-geared spinning reel, and he was losing both trout and bass because of it. Gomexus, btw, offers an 85-mm or 95-mm length carbon baitcast handle. They also offer the handle without the knobs, and length choice, so you can pick your own knobs. (Matches Shimano A and Daiwa S knobs, but not Abu/Lew's knobs, which take 5-mm spindles) Handle length choice is new to Gomexus - they're getting smarter, and these are worth recommending. Admitted high-grade reels and high-grade handles, super-light, with titanium spindles and carbon knob tubes - here are examples of Japanese handles, available in different lengths, and tuned where I like reels with different gearing: 88 mm Studio Composite handle on Steez 6.3 gears, and 105 mm Avail handle on Zillion 8,5 gears. Here's a 60-mm pitch handle on my offshore jigging reel, low-geared, but large diameter (23 IPT), and where you want extra leverage for lifting big fish. Also note, this single handle lets you choose between 60-mm and 75-mm pitch when you install it. Not recommending this, just using the example. They're not tuning parts unless you think about it. And you can tune your reel in the wrong direction if you don't think about it. A handle that bends? Totally Unacceptable. Don't Even Consider It. Form should follow function - don't get hung up on looks.

@MAN I have a few different ones - every one of my spinning reels has one. (All my fishing buddies have or want them, as well - they work) Tsubaki President - this is the most cost-effective and excellent for the price, because of the rotating hook keeper. Hedgehog sells it, Plat, Asian Portal, fishingshop.kiwi (also a great place to buy lures, rods, and high-grade reel tuning parts). 2nd best for price, Dress Origin - there was a shop in Alabama that has sold these in the past, but they don't google right now - Hedgehog, ebay, fishingshop.kiwi, AP has just red and rainbow. Sorry I don't have a better photo, but the hook keeper part is stainless steel sleeves over the end-piece screws. The problem with Livre, the hook-keeper part is a separate part that only comes from SquidMania. The good thing about SquidMania, you can order any Livre handle and knob combination. The bad thing, you need to use a broker and I strongly recommend Masmamichi at noppin.com because of his strong English (we go back 20 years when you could only buy from Japan using a broker). Even my big surf reel has a Tsubaki that's stacked up on an IdeR base to push it out farther. At the other extreme, here's my sexy little Tica Cetus (Micron size) with the simple Hedgehog version, which works, though the hook keepers above are better.

you'd be hard pressed to find better casting reliability with a wide range of weights than Daiwa SV adding a ps - set the mag adjustment to prevent wind backlash with the lightest thing you're going to throw, and you're done.

The highest sold listing on ebay for the 2-speed International is $700 - the average is below $450. The best auction price on a 9/0 is $122. The norm for the bakelite reels is about $75. A friend sold a new boxed 6/0, a presentation reel from the '70s with Red bakelite, for $150 on corpusfishing forum - nice reel and the right market. http://www.corpusfishing.com/messageboard/phpBB2/viewforum.php?f=2 If you have a local bluewater fishing forum, that would be your best market. Local craigslist is likely 2nd-best. You'll find the best collecting and history audience for big reels here - https://reeltalk.orcaonline.org/viewforum.php?f=1

@DinkDreams actually, it's the best hook keeper you could ever imagine. especially with a complex rig. the stacked o-rings will squeeze your line and hold it. The Livre version has adjustable balance weights inside to offset the torsion of a big handle - you can't see it in this photo, but the reel has a counterbalanced handle that keeps the bail from turning under gravity - all to increase finesse touch.

those are going to be constant for what you're throwing, whether it's a rock, a boat tail hollow point, or a fishing lure. What we're talking about is the result of release velocity increase gained by a longer rod. Where are those hippers... I've been side-by-side with guides (more than one) on their deck when they explained how my spiral cast didn't load the rod properly. We were throwing the same unweighted shrimp with a hook, and my baitcaster could double their spinning cast distance by making a good spiral cast (that works out to a 20% increase in release velocity). They didn't like that, but I made them look good at the dock. To jerk that same 20% increase on a spinning rod, the live shrimp goes even farther, but it leaves the hook behind.