Have you guys seen this thing?

[Sword of the Lord]

1 minute ago, Bulletman20XD said:

 

How bout you grab a couple and use them for a couple trips and report back to us all. Use those things down here in south Texas and they won't last a single trip!

Kind of irrelevant. You buy your gear based on what and where you personally fish, not on some place half way across the country.

[Sword of the Lord]

I finally got a Bullet. I took it out earlier this afternoon. I did everything I'm not supposed to do. I used a spincast reel (10 Stren mono) and threw wacky rigs on the mono. Caught 3 in the 45 minutes I was at the little pond down the road. Small sample size, but no lockups and casts a mile. I used a 6'6" M/F Lightning Rod. The bass didn't seem to care about the reel or the mono on a finesse tactic. I spent 15 minutes burning a spinnerbait to test out the retrieve more than anything. It's FAST. Didn't catch a fish on the spinnerbait, but then again, I've gotten exactly one spinnerbait catch out of this pond in 4 years. They just don't work in that little hole.

 

 

Also, it's really not that heavy. Balances out on a rod.

[Sword of the Lord]

The Bullet is working.

 

[3crows]

I am glad it is working out. 

 

I still do not understand this reels purpose. Casting out from shore is one thing but for fishing from a boat/kayak and casting back toward shoreline and under docks and onto and around other obstacles, how do you control the flight of the lure and stop it at just the right moment?

[Sword of the Lord]

6 minutes ago, 3crows said:

I am glad it is working out. 

 

I still do not understand this reels purpose. Casting out from shore is one thing but for fishing from a boat/kayak and casting back toward shoreline and under docks and onto and around other obstacles, how do you control the flight of the lure and stop it at just the right moment?

Engage the reel handle. I'll have my bait flying through the air then "click" it just when I need to and it lands where I want it. 

 

You don't understand that there are many people out there who are one of the following?:

 

1. Old time spincast users who are excited to be able to throw burner baits.

2. Newbies

3. Wives and children

4. People who hate baitcasters and spinning equipment because of backlash and line twist, so they're glad something exists that can use braid and has the speed of a baitcaster with small bait capability of a spinning reel.

 

Etc. There's a lot of reasons people would want this. It was hard to find in store for months after it was released and online ordering was put on back

order. It's still not that easy to find one in store. When I went the other day they had 1 left in stock and the BPS guy said they fly off the shelf. Having actually used one now, I can see why. Extremely well built and fast. Casts a mile and still no lock up. Drag works great. I'll use it far more than any spinning combo. Taking this and a baitcast combo is all I need anymore. 

 

 

[3crows]

I am pretty sure spincast reels suffer from line twist mightily. 

 

I saw one in Cabalas, it is a nice looking chunk of metal. It is also rather heavy and bulky, but serious looking. 

 

I got my wife an Omega, the black one, a couple of years ago since when kayak fishing she has her hands full as it is. And she is not a serious bass lady. She mostly just paddles around and flings the lures into tree brnaches, usually beyond my capability to retireve them. The reel has worked fine though it is painfully slow. But she does not know the difference and she has fun. The new Bullet corrects the slow reel speed to at least a moderate pace but it added some weight. Maybe if it had a composite body, stuff like Shimano and Diawa use, not plastic, the weight could come down a tad. 

 

My grandfather finished his fishing career with spincast reels due to severe, crippling arthritis. That said, he loathed the the things but they were better than nothing and by that time he just enjoyed being out. 

[david in va]

On ‎8‎/‎9‎/‎2017 at 8:02 PM, fishnkamp said:

I have a friend that swears by his old Zebco 808 series spincast reel for hauling in big river cats, so I will not say those reels are all toys. I have seen him battle soms BIG river cats and tiger musky.  I di have a Daiwa Omega +  for my wife to use for throwing jigs. It worked well.  I replaced it with an Irod Genesis spinning rod and she enjoys fishing it better.  So this Bullet might be a good option to skip under docks with and who know what else.

 Well as some of you know, I fell and hurt my shoulder, right one too, well I broke out the old 808

put on fresh line and went fishing. I can cast left handed with it. I forgot what a pleasure it was just to fish and not worry about line issues. My cast were all over the place , but I still caught fish.

 I am putting it back into service until I can cast right handed again. Who knows may even keep it in place of the line twisting, line hopping off spinning reels  

[Hulkster]

I was under the impression that by design, spin cast reels had greatly reduced casting distance compared to baitcasting reels and spinning reels.

 

that and at 13+ oz which is heavier than almost all bass spinning reels (with not much line capacity)

even the 5000 size ones, makes this sort of a head scratcher unless its for kids etc who haven't yet mastered the art of spinning or baitcasting reels.

 

nothing really wrong per say (other than the casting distance) but for the money spent there are way better options out there that weight much much less.

[Sword of the Lord]

Caught with the Bullet a little bit ago.

 

[Further North]

21 minutes ago, Sword of the Lord said:

Caught with the Bullet a little bit ago.

 

NIce fish!

 

So...do you feel like those bass would not have been caught without the Bullet?

[Sword of the Lord]

5 minutes ago, Further North said:

NIce fish!

 

So...do you feel like those bass would not have been caught without the Bullet?

No. But the Bullet catches good ones just fine, is the point. That old girl ran into heavy vegetation. I was using a M/F rod with the Bullet and 10lb mono and got her out of some bad stuff. They tell me these things are not good for that.

A few people were interested in tests and results, and I'm just saying those YouTube videos aren't phony. This thing is the real deal.

[Sword of the Lord]

I need to revisit this thread. The Zebco Bullet is... Trash! It worked great for about a month. But then the lockups started. Then the line chewing. And now it sits in a dark closet corner because the pickup pins have failed and the trigger to engage the reel doesn't work. It doesn't/didn't even last nearly as long as a Platinum 33.

[Further North]

3 hours ago, Sword of the Lord said:

I need to revisit this thread. The Zebco Bullet is... Trash! It worked great for about a month. But then the lockups started. Then the line chewing. And now it sits in a dark closet corner because the pickup pins have failed and the trigger to engage the reel doesn't work. It doesn't/didn't even last nearly as long as a Platinum 33.

Thanks for the follow up.  Good to know.

[DINK WHISPERER]

I considered one for my son before I started him out on bait casters..... Then i saw the price tag and weight! 

[Lures'n'Liberty]

My Daiwas are still catching fish, brought a Silvercast into duty after my trusty Mitchell 400 failed about 1 mile into a 14 mile float trip 2 weeks ago and it worked flawlessly, all day long, reeling in dink after dink after dink on a 3/8 jig and a paddletail.

[Boomstick]

Well let me know if you get one and how it works out for you. The only spincast reels I ever used have been cheap Walmart worthy garbage, good for a kid but that's about it.