New reel.

[Ski]

As one of my 6, 25 Year old Curado 201's "grenaded" while fishing this week I have decided to replace it with this reel on my cranking stick with 6.8 retrieve. Got a very good price on Amazon.

Any one happen to own any? All the reviews were 4.9

Ski

[Phil77]

I've got the MB and MP and in the 5 GR. Good workhorse reels for the money, not a fan of the dual brake is my only complaint. 

[NYWayfarer]

I have the Tournament MB now know as the Tournament MP. This is a great reel IMO. Casts great, smooth and durable. I usually run with 1 of the internal brakes on and dial the magnetic brakes as needed.

[FishinBuck07]

I have the MB and the MP on most of my rods, great reels for the money.

[SproDD79]

I have a Tournament MB 5:6:1 for cranking,  it's super comfortable to grip, smooth and quiet. Overall a great reel, I would  definitely pick up another one. 

[Born 2 fish]

I have that reel in 7.5 I use it on my buzzbait rod. Once you get the brakes set up it will cast a mile. Very good reel.

[bulldog1935]

I'll always be a Super Duty G fan. 

I like the mag brake, and have limited use for centrifugal. 

This replaced my 25-y-o BB-25SW four years ago. 

 

I sold Tournament Pro and Team Pro SP when I discovered Super Duty would out-cast both. Selling those bought my Zillion, and I bought another Super Duty G at Lew's sale price. 

[ironbjorn]

I love the $100 Lew's LFS, the Lew's KVD, and the Lew's Tournament Pro, but the Tournament MP disappointed me more than any other reel ever has. I found it to be finicky to the point of being unenjoyable and dysfunctional. It's possible that I got a bad reel.

[Phil77]

23 minutes ago, bulldog1935 said:

I'll always be a Super Duty fan. 

I like the mag brake, and have limited use for centrifugal. 

This replaced my 25-y-o BB-25SW four years ago. 

I sold Tournament Pro and Team Pro SP when I discovered Super Duty would out-cast both. 

The super duty is becoming my favored reel. I have that same one, bought for football jigs but am surprised how well it casts 1/8 finesse jigs.

[bulldog1935]

@Phil77 - that's exactly right - and it doesn't even make sense. 

I went to the trouble to set up my SP with low-inertia spool bearings and braid just to cast 1/8-oz Z-man.  I embarrassed myself when I discovered Super Duty will out-distance it with the same lure. 

[newapti5]

I use my Super Duty 8:1 for top water lures. I can almost empty the whole spool of 12lb mono with every cast of a Super Spook.

[dodgeguy]

Put 2 pins on and cast away.

[Cody28]

On 2/5/2022 at 8:48 PM, ironbjorn said:

I love the $100 Lew's LFS, the Lew's KVD, and the Lew's Tournament Pro, but the Tournament MP disappointed me more than any other reel ever has. I found it to be finicky to the point of being unenjoyable and dysfunctional. It's possible that I got a bad reel.

You did not get a bad reel. I have 2 and I completely agree. Everyone tells me I'm crazy and they like theirs, but I do not. Its only good with heavier lures. 

[bulldog1935]

You're going to find people who prefer dual-mag Lew's, who prefer the new centrifugal, and who prefer the linear mag brake.  A lot is going to depend on how they fish and how much weight they throw. 

After my first Super Duty, the second Lew's low-profile reel I purchased was a Custom Inshore with with dual brake - I put it away after a year, then gave it away. 

For my money, the add-on centrifugal of the dual brake isn't worth its own weight - it's less useful than simply removing the weight it adds to the spool. 

Helping prevent backlash is the whole idea of any brake.  I honestly thought it would help my buddy Lou give baitcaster another try -  it wasn't enough for him. 

 

Personally, the only backlash in my memory bandwidth was April 2018 - it was caused by a single line wrap on my rod tip.  Swapped in my spare reel and finished a great morning.  This is my friend Mark, down from Arizona for a month at the beach with his wife and friends.  It was really a great day to paddle to Little Cut - the flat drained hard by two days of SW to NW blow, and this is the tide coming back in with the prevailing SE - he had already released 5 specs before I got my first lure rigged - they were impaling themselves on 3" swim shad

Overall a great trip, I fished the SW one day and the NW the next on two different flats with my buddy Josh, and all three were bang-up days.