MyFishFinder.com Just like iceshanty but warmer
Caught a few 20"+ walleye and 28" pike this past weekend on upper red lake with my free fall ghost. Had no problem with the drag, never broke a fish off on 4lb test.
Does anybody else think its ridiculous to have to disassemble a $100+ reel and perform maintenance right out of the box?
Not at all. The correct terminology is performance tuning. Even a spinning reel, dirt cheap $15 one can be optimized for performance in the right hand. So can a $500 reel. There is nothing wrong with fishing the reel right out of the box, that's if that's what one wants.Often times a better performing lubricant can make a difference over that of the standard manufacture's lubricant.
which begs the question. They know the conditions the reels would be used in. Do they save that much on the bottom line by not putting in some cold weather lubricant?Keep it safe! JDL
I purchased couple of these last season and like using them. Around here our walleye average is under 18”. Looking to be taking couple trips to walleye destinations and wonder how well the drag works on some larger eyes. Anyone have experience with these?
Try this Black Betty. Blast to fish.
I've got one of those and two of the No. 8 code blue reels that are the plastic version of that. Absolutely the bomb when fishing 15ft or less for gills, crappies, and perch. Paired on some HT ice blues rods they are a great panfish setup.
Exactly. Paying a premium price should allow you to have the optimum performance from the get-go. If it's a $15 reel, I understand going into it that I may need to tune it up.
That's not how performance tuners think. It's a little different. They wouldn't waste time on reels less than $100. They would spend their time and money on those expensive reels. Mostly well over $300 and most of them are doing it on $500+ reels. Makes me wonder if they actually fish with the end results.I just took a couple of pointers from some of those guys and apply it in a practical way for myself. That being tuning up a cheap reel will get me so far as simple operations and functions. However tuning up an expensive reel, get's me far more results that can actually be applicable to real field use. And a lot of it is simply just cleaning out the original manufacture's lubricant and replacing it with a higher quality lubricant that allows ball bearing to operate much more efficiently for the spools in bait casting reels. As for spinning reels, it's cleaning and re-lubing that line roller. If it's got a bearing, it works so much better. However most spinning reels, under $100 don't even have a bearing in there. It's probably just a plastic bushing. Why don't manufacture just put a low friction nylon bushing in there? It would solve 99% of the spinning reel's performance.
what reel is that icephishwyo?
We're saying essentially the same thing. It seems like it would be good for business to spend 5% more on the product to make it perform 20% better. Those are obviously arbitrary numbers, but still, the point is that a little extra could go a long way.