Umm. What?

[jdr99a]

I’m not interested in the reel and won’t comment on the overall quality of the reel. That being said, since when does having more data about anything hurt? I may not find knowing my precise casting distance particularly helpful but in what way could it possibly hurt someone to know it?

[LrgmouthShad]

Man.

 

For something so "smart", it's pretty dumb

[ska4fun]

22 hours ago, jdr99a said:

I’m not interested in the reel and won’t comment on the overall quality of the reel. That being said, since when does having more data about anything hurt? I may not find knowing my precise casting distance particularly helpful but in what way could it possibly hurt someone to know it?

It doesn't hurt.  Maybe the ego of big brands fanboys.

[islandbass]

@BrianMDTX: I asked Siri the same question earlier today and she replied: “Request denied. There are no fish in that spot.”?

[GetFishorDieTryin]

Like it or not, I bet this is a peak into the future of the sport.  It doesn't appeal to me, but I can see where you could get some really useful data, if it works as advertised.  I can see it now, "KK is junk its trying to tell me I can only cast my 110 60 feet when I know Ive been casting them at least 40 yards for years."

[ska4fun]

Nailed it...

 

Someone on a BFS fishing group said some weeks ago he was casting 4g beyond the 43yd mark...

[ironbjorn]

If this is the "future of fishing" then I guess it's more important than ever to buy quality and service it regularly so it lasts decades. There's a lot of things in this world you can't do without a smartphone, fishing better not become one of them.

[huZZah]

Don’t like it? Don’t use it.
 

(I am incredibly amused by the double standard of how much crap people probably have on their boats, but the reel?  Unnatural!  You kids get off my lawn!)

[Cbump]

1 hour ago, ska4fun said:

Nailed it...

 

Someone on a BFS fishing group said some weeks ago he was casting 4g beyond the 43yd mark...

And I’m sure you were quick to deride him about It. 

[MiceNReets]

[ska4fun]

Surely. And he got very butthurt, even more so when I asked about him recording the casts. 

[garroyo130]

Y'all need to calm down ... this is the hoverboard all over again. Remember when that was the future? It'll be gone before you know it

 

[Glenn]

This thread reminds me of the failed Anglr app. Lots of people talked about it, but nobody used it.  And the end of the day, it recorded meaningless stats.

[Aaron_H]

And that bluetooth Abu rod that paired with it with one simple click.... That one got clearanced out pretty quickly.

[ska4fun]

The funny thing is the same people who bash the proposal, are the same who praise the digital ''intelligent'' casting system, who casts worse than centrifugal ones, distance-wise, and with less control than simple linear mag one, for at least 4-5 generations.

[ironbjorn]

I mean, who ??

[ska4fun]

One already interacted with you, LOL!  He still butthurt with me, LOL!

 

[Cbump]

I’ve never even owned a DC reel and won’t but ok. 

[Glenn]

I just returned from ICAST. 2 things I noted:

1. There aren't any electronic reels like this one.  So that tells me the industry isn't going in that direction.

2. I saw a new reel company from Sweden that had a nearly backlash-free reel that uses all mechanics - nothing "digital".  I threw a 1/4oz weight as hard and as far as I could and only had one loop of line in the spool.  I had a similar experience with the new Ark reel, even though they don't tout it as an anti-backlash reel. It just has extreme fine-tuning of the casting controls (60 setting combinations).  I also saw the new GF Seviin baitcasting reel has similar casting controls

 

I'm not saying "digital" reels like Kastking's will never happen.  But it seems there isn't a market for them, and there are now advances in the mechanics of reels that challenge the need for digital anti-backlash reels.

[MiceNReets]

Doesn’t this reel do the same thing as the new daiwa reel? The IM Z limit breaker tw HD-c

1 hour ago, ska4fun said:

One already interacted with you, LOL!  He still butthurt with me, LOL!

 

[ska4fun]

Indeed. It's the same purpose, apparently. But the IM Z intelligent features are JDM-only, restricted at software level.

[huZZah]

I’ll archive this thread into a time capsule and let my grandchildren laugh reading while they tell their fishing gear to catch fish more to the left while sitting at home on a moon of Jupiter. 
 

I’d rather have a smart lipless that can unsnag itself when I ask.  That’s the pipe dream.  They could charge $50 and it’d be a money saver for me. 

[ironbjorn]

I don't see the appeal of video game fishing but to each their own. The struggle and the unknown are part of the fun of it.

[Bankbeater]

I'm not buying it.  At some point you are going to have to call tech support for this thing.

[MiceNReets]

40 minutes ago, Bankbeater said:

I'm not buying it.  At some point you are going to have to call tech support for this thing.