11-17-2005, 08:29 PM
Hey cat_man,
Funny you should mention that South bend reel ... I was fishing with a friend that had one of those - he got the cheapest brand he could find - I think the same part broke on his too. While he was fishing upstream of me and was busily casting to a hole and stripping and/or mending his line. Apparently, he wasn't paying particular attention to anything but the hole his was fishing. Well, as I was doing my own fishing to another hole down stream a ways, I looked down at my feet and saw a flyline wrapped around my leg, and, it not being my line, I then looked upstream to see my buddie trying to land a small brown and there was a fly line that extended from him all the way down to me. As he stripped in line, the weight of the line drew the rest of his line off the reel and sent it down to me a good 20-30 yards away. He did land the fish, but, all of his line and backing was in the water and it took him about 15 minutes to recover all of it from under the rocks and in some submerged branches. LOL !
Well, anyway back to the reels. I have a cheapo Pflueger, Shakespear, and a couple of Okumas that were on the cheapo side that have worked quite well. I also have an Orvis and a Ross that were kind of spendy - however, my cheapos hold line just as well and I don't have to worry too much about dropping them in the mud, sand, rocks, or water. I also use the cheapos while on my float tube or pontoon and so I don't have to worry about them going overboard and being lost completely as much as I would with my nice ones. Another good thing with the cheapos, is that the extra spools(when you can get them) are also very cheap.
Oh yeah thanx, polarized sun glasses are should be the rule.
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Funny you should mention that South bend reel ... I was fishing with a friend that had one of those - he got the cheapest brand he could find - I think the same part broke on his too. While he was fishing upstream of me and was busily casting to a hole and stripping and/or mending his line. Apparently, he wasn't paying particular attention to anything but the hole his was fishing. Well, as I was doing my own fishing to another hole down stream a ways, I looked down at my feet and saw a flyline wrapped around my leg, and, it not being my line, I then looked upstream to see my buddie trying to land a small brown and there was a fly line that extended from him all the way down to me. As he stripped in line, the weight of the line drew the rest of his line off the reel and sent it down to me a good 20-30 yards away. He did land the fish, but, all of his line and backing was in the water and it took him about 15 minutes to recover all of it from under the rocks and in some submerged branches. LOL !
Well, anyway back to the reels. I have a cheapo Pflueger, Shakespear, and a couple of Okumas that were on the cheapo side that have worked quite well. I also have an Orvis and a Ross that were kind of spendy - however, my cheapos hold line just as well and I don't have to worry too much about dropping them in the mud, sand, rocks, or water. I also use the cheapos while on my float tube or pontoon and so I don't have to worry about them going overboard and being lost completely as much as I would with my nice ones. Another good thing with the cheapos, is that the extra spools(when you can get them) are also very cheap.
Oh yeah thanx, polarized sun glasses are should be the rule.
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