sigep1967

Won a bunch of money out of a 14 ft jon boat with nothing but a trolling motor. HEE HEE we could go places on Ross Barnnet the big boys couldn't go it was real funny watching them try to follow us across the flats and get stuck.

Once fishing our honey hole in south MS my partner hooked a 6+lbr in a brushpile that hung up about 2 1/2 to 3 feet down in the pile. I laid across the bow of the boat and he held my feet as I was down to my waist in the water getting that dang fish. ;D ;D

6" watermelon chartrues/junebug/black fed flake(sp) Zoon Lizard fished weightless I have been away from fishing for several years but am amzed at the senko craze. You guys fish a senko the same way i fish a lizard and have for years with a HUGE sucess rate.

Wow will have to think back as I have not seriously fished in about 10 years. 14.6 weightless zoom lizard watermelon 10.74,12.34,9.8.10.34 DB3 fire tiger all the same day from the same brushpile also broke off 4 times on a jig in that pile that same day 20lb big game no less lol 8.75 black and blue stanley jig 7.8 live bream lol caught the bream while bream fishing then the bass ;D probably 50+ 5-7lbers on weightless lizards and stanley jigs.

You know if you think about it this is probably the original swimbait

Catt do they both cast the same? I would think so I remember playing with the calcutta and t would pitch a jig a mile it seemed like with out thinking of backlashing

ReelMech which one do you recomend? the cradiff or calcutta? Roadwarrior I can not afford those. Catt which one did you like better?

hmm that really doesn't make sense to me. the bearings are the same the mechanisms are basically the same and the cardiff has drive shaft bearing so theoretically if should be smoother and less noisy? I haven't gotten my hands on one yet but I am in no hurry to buy anything and the little tackle shop here has a few on order they can't seem to keep them in stock. I would expect the calcutta to well be more "solid" due to the difference in weight and frame construction I will just have to play with one. Anybody else out there had both the calcutta in the 100-200 sizes?

why do you hate it? is it a new one?

I understnad about replacing the bearings and such. What I am wondering is will the cardiff cast as smooth and reel as smooth as the calcutta? It appears by the schematics that the cardiff should actually be smoother as it has bearings on the main shaft that the calcutta does not. Why pay more for the calcutta? I remember when the calcutta first came out and pitching jigs down the ailse of the sporting good store I worked at the time. It was amazing how well it would pitch without backlashing. Something I have trouble doing with my curado for some reason. I was stupid and did not take advantage of the store offer Shimano had at the time where we could buy 3 reels for $50 each as I had about 7 reels at the time and didn't need them ( still kicking myself over that one). Know My kids are getting big enough to go fishing with me and I am looking to upgrade all my old reels (mostly PM33p that I converted to PT's by adding ball bearings) Whith all that said will the cardiff cast as well and reel as smooth as the calcutta?

Raul that I know as I used to work on reels many years ago. Looking at the schematics on the two reels the bearings have the same item number from shimano? I would expect them to be different if they were different bearings. them main differences I see is the die cast frame versus forged frame and the pop out for the calcutta vbs.

I did look at the Pfluegar reels but one thing i noticed on every model was some wobble of the drive shaft. Spin the handle and watch the drag star/handle and you will see the wobble. It is not much but it was present on every single one from the trion up to the supreme that I looked at.

Am I crazy or does the cardiff actually have 1 more ARB than the calcutta? Why would they do that? I have always liked the way these reels looked and really need to upgrade my equipment. Reelmech have you looked at these two? Are they any real differences other than the pop off side plate on the calcutta? Which is really the best reel?