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They're amazing! I tried them for the first time last season, and won't go back to O-Rings. As a very rough guide, I think you want 1mm of diameter per inch length of your plastic worm. So I use 5mm rings with my 5" worms. Of course if your worms are fatter/thinner, this may not be accurate. They're not cheap. Knock-offs are starting to appear on Temu for about 1/10th the price from VMC.

You can do the same thing using two o-rings. You cross them, put the hook under where they cross. The hook will stay perpendicular to the worm You can get 100 o'rings on Temu for $1.88 CAD (1.36 USD). You likely won't beat that price at a hardware store, and certainly won't beat that price at a fishing or sporting goods store. I also bought ChatterBait knockoffs for about $2 each (they come in packs of 4 and 5) from them. I bought a pack, I've had great success with them.

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What if you just switched which hand held which?

Has anyone tried this method? It's very non-traditional, but it looks super fast and really simple.

My mistake, sorry. What you posted is about $100 (cad) cheaper than retail here

But they only have it available for pickup it Chicoutimi Quebec. That's a 6.5 hour drive for me, and it's not available for delivery. It came on sale last year also, but was only available in Quebec last year also.

Having the switch does seem very convenient. If I did not have it I suppose I could get used to it, but a real advantages would have to be pretty high for me to sacrifice the switch.

I'm actually parked right in front of SAIL (Ottawa) at this very instant. Apparently it doesn't open for another 45 minutes. That's a 19 hour drive from my house (which is also in Ontario) ?

I live and work in Ontario ? Why do some not have the anti reverse switch? I couldn't imagine that it adds much weight at all.

How do you live without it? If you over-reel a bit, how do you release line if there's too much tension to easily flip the bail? Example: When I'm not fishing, I will often fasten my leader or swivel to the hook keeper on the rod. For various reasons someone might turn the handle, bending the rod tip a bit. I would usually just flip the antiverse switch, real backwards a half turn, and then turn the anti reverse switch back on.

Given that I've had reels that are very smooth, with great line lay, and are fairly light, I wonder if I'd notice/appreciate any differences by buying an expensive reel. My old Daiwa Revros is only 7.4 oz, 4+1 ball bearing but is very smooth, and has good line lay. I bought it in a combo at Canadian Tire for only about $80 ($60 usd). What things might I observe with a more expensive reel, given that I've been quite happy with reels that are under $50 usd? I did have a KastKing baitcaster that I paid around $60 for, and when I upgraded to a Daiwa Fuego CT baitcaster it was a night and day difference. As long as I set the brakes reasonable on the Daiwa it very rarely gets a birds nest (even when it's windy), whereas the KastKing wasn't nearly so nice. But with my cheap spinning reels I'm not really observing any issues with them before an upgrade.

Thank you That's only $30 cad cheaper than what they retail for here though

Odd that the prices are so low. The miravel is something like $185 cad. And that site, with exchange I think was around $70 cad

The rotary tool I used was actually not a Dremel (it was the same thing minus the branding). It came with a metal filing bit. My Circle Hooks have quite thick barbs, and it only took about 15 seconds per hook.