lo-profile baitcasters

[sfef84]

I recently took the plunge and tried out a baitcaster. MAN!!! I have been missing out. My wrists don't hurt after 5 hours of casting. The ease of working topwaters is night and day.... Anyway,

I bought a citica from academy to test out the whole baitcasting thing. I want to get another reel but there are two things I don't like about the citica: silent drag, the spool slides back and forth when casting and shortens the distance.

Which do you guys use? Where is the best place to find the most left-handed models?

[plugger]

I don't know of any baitcasters with a clicker grag. What do you do ? Leave it baited but not holding it ? I love my REVO STX. Magnetic brakes makes it so easy to cast in the wind . It's dry inside after fishing while my CURADO or 50 MG were always wet. Sold those, but a lot of guys love them.

[sfef84]

OHHHHHHhhhh duhhhh, it says "click drag ADJUSTMENT" gotcha.

That REVO looks pretty cool. What line/braid do you have on it?

[imhammer]

I like the chronarch, but it is a little pricey. I also have a couple of curados that I use.
I use 30lb power pro braid with a 20lb flouro leader.

[dbarham]

I like the chronarch, but it is a little pricey. I also have a couple of curados that I use.
I use 30lb power pro braid with a 20lb flouro leader.

what he said, cant go wrong I fish the same exact setup

[bountyhunter]

I've always been a calcutta man myself, like something I can hold onto.

[coachlaw]

Upside down sideways ancient useless technology is what baitcasters are. While you're pickin' out a bird's nest, I'm landin' a fish.

[Milkjug]

LOL, I knew you were gonna rag on 'em Sandy. Leave those tatooed, pierced, buy-O pronouncing, baitcaster users alone

And we all know you'll be pulling hooks out of your neck while they are picking backlashes

[007]

I've got one of these new in box spooled with 50# power pro that I'll let go for $50. It out casts my curado!

http://www.academy.com/index.php?page=content&target=products/outdoors/fishing/reels_baitcast&start=8&selectedSKU=0112-40429-5021

[TTU Wader]

If your spool is going back and forth that probably means you need to tighten your spool tension knob.

I like all shimanos, I would try a diawa if my shimanos every messed up but they never do! Just don't pick up a 50mg though, you wont put it down. lol

[coachlaw]

That fish actually hooked me when I was using the bait caster. They're trash I tell you. I also hate that the drag is silent. I like to HEAR the ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ when the drag goes out.

[dbarham]

That fish actually hooked me when I was using the bait caster. They're trash I tell you. I also hate that the drag is silent. I like to HEAR the ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ when the drag goes out.

it's the 20th century bro

[shallowist]

I'm going to give you some very well researched advice. I have used and serviced both Shimano and Daiwa. I would put my money on Daiwa any day. If you look at the bang for the buck models, which unfortunately are 150-170 these days. You could get a Curado (which is much improved) or a Team Daiwa Advantage. There's a touch more weight with the Daiwa but I would put money on it far outlasting and outcasting the Curado. Both are very low profile and comfortable to cast. At the meet and greet two weeks ago, I had this same discussion with Mike in Friendswood, long time reel repair guy. There are a lot of good reels, all will succumb to saltwater eventually, only Daiwa and Shimano have reasonable parts availability. Virtually every other reel maker uses some cheap pot metal parts somewhere in the reels that will eventually destroy every moving part. And for the skeptics, No, I'm no longer sponsored by Daiwa, but I still fish, and abuse them regularly. I probably fish 100 days a year currently, a few years back my Daiwa gear survived in excess of 250 days a year and customer abuse... Plus the occasional dunking from those days that I thought that I need two rods when wading.

[007]

I'm going to give you some very well researched advice. I have used and serviced both Shimano and Daiwa. I would put my money on Daiwa any day. If you look at the bang for the buck models, which unfortunately are 150-170 these days. You could get a Curado (which is much improved) or a Team Daiwa Advantage. There's a touch more weight with the Daiwa but I would put money on it far outlasting and outcasting the Curado. Both are very low profile and comfortable to cast. At the meet and greet two weeks ago, I had this same discussion with Mike in Friendswood, long time reel repair guy. There are a lot of good reels, all will succumb to saltwater eventually, only Daiwa and Shimano have reasonable parts availability. Virtually every other reel maker uses some cheap pot metal parts somewhere in the reels that will eventually destroy every moving part. And for the skeptics, No, I'm no longer sponsored by Daiwa, but I still fish, and abuse them regularly. I probably fish 100 days a year currently, a few years back my Daiwa gear survived in excess of 250 days a year and customer abuse... Plus the occasional dunking from those days that I thought that I need two rods when wading.

Try this cheap arse H2o Mettle that I've fished with for the last 8 months and then get back to me. It blows my Curado BSF200 away in every which way but loose. I can throw a PinkSkitterwalk 80 yards down wind.........no problem!! Not sayin the Shimanos are bad at all (I own 2 of them) but these are more bang for the buck reels hands down.

[coachlaw]

it's the 20th century bro

Acutally, it's the 21st century if you're really counting. That's why people should be using newer technology, which means using spinners. To each their own. I grew up making fun of baitcaster bass fishermen and I still do. It's strange to me that so many people use them here in Texas. You don't find it so prevalant anywhere else. I do find that baitcasters are better when drift fishing, because you've always got the wind at your back. I own 2 of them and don't know why. Now y'all go pick out your rats nests.