10-12-2009, 03:37 AM
Wow, I'll take you up on that generous offer. Thank you! Please send your snail mail address to [url "mailto:revrusty@gmail.com"]revrusty@gmail.com[/url] and I'll include $5 with my address. Let me know if you need more postage.
You know, I'm thinking of reel covers to keep 'em looking better. Then my reels would be protected from dings to and from the lake and I could stuff the covers in an ODC pocket.
Its problem doesn't sound too bad. I'm used to making do. I guess I recently got some oil down the shaft of a Curado Bantam, my best reel, causing the drag not to work. (Didn't find that out until on the water and tried to set the hook.) I worked on it three times and the drag works a little now, but in the mean time I've learned to put my thumb on the spool in order to keep using it.
I'm not bad on cleaning, but I really need to learn how to replace bearings. I snapped up an old Daiwa (so faded I can't tell the model) at a yard sale because the spool spun very fast. Excited, I cleaned it and went fishing, but
ly it made a rattling noise on long casts (bearing, right?) and I didn't get adequate distance. I'd probably be good for short casts beating the bank, so it's a backup. But it'd be a starter with new bearings. I don't like risking a good but diminishing reel by taking it all apart, but if I messed up that old Daiwa in a learning experience I wouldn't be too disappointed.
What baitcasters do you use? How much do they cost? Are the $100-plus reels really worth the money for a weekender like me?
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You know, I'm thinking of reel covers to keep 'em looking better. Then my reels would be protected from dings to and from the lake and I could stuff the covers in an ODC pocket.
Its problem doesn't sound too bad. I'm used to making do. I guess I recently got some oil down the shaft of a Curado Bantam, my best reel, causing the drag not to work. (Didn't find that out until on the water and tried to set the hook.) I worked on it three times and the drag works a little now, but in the mean time I've learned to put my thumb on the spool in order to keep using it.
I'm not bad on cleaning, but I really need to learn how to replace bearings. I snapped up an old Daiwa (so faded I can't tell the model) at a yard sale because the spool spun very fast. Excited, I cleaned it and went fishing, but
ly it made a rattling noise on long casts (bearing, right?) and I didn't get adequate distance. I'd probably be good for short casts beating the bank, so it's a backup. But it'd be a starter with new bearings. I don't like risking a good but diminishing reel by taking it all apart, but if I messed up that old Daiwa in a learning experience I wouldn't be too disappointed.What baitcasters do you use? How much do they cost? Are the $100-plus reels really worth the money for a weekender like me?
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