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Ron The Hat Clay
Registered: November 2000
Location: Rotherham South Yorkshire
Posts: 32332
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Review Date: Sat March 6, 2004
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Would you recommend the product? No |
Price you paid?: None indicated
| Rating: 3
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None.
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Heavy and old fashioned
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Hate to say it but's it's over priced rubbish This is the first offering Shimano have put forward to the very competitive Fly reel market. It is a shame that they did not investigate the market a bit more. Large arbour reels dominate this market today with very good reason.I have great respect for
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FishingMagic
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Registered: February 2009
Posts: 265789
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Review Date: Thu September 16, 2004
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: None indicated
| Rating: 7
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Beautifully made, smooth running, totally reliable (so far).
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A little heavy, finish marks easily, cheap-looking neoprene pouch.
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A pleasure to use I use my Ultegra exclusively for light line river fishing for wild trout and grayling, with either a 7ft brook rod or an 8.5ft 5wt. It has been a joy to use and it looks superb. Other anglers have even commented to me on how good it looks. For the price (
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carl pepper
New Member
Registered: August 2003
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Review Date: Wed April 19, 2006
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: None indicated
| Rating: 6
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good looking and performs well
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heavy and not a large arbour
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Got it cheap I wouldn't have paid
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FishingMagic
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Registered: February 2009
Posts: 265789
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Review Date: Sun April 23, 2006
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: None indicated
| Rating: 8
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Beautifully made and eye catching with a good solid drag. Suits my Greys GRX 2/3wt 7'6" and 3/4wt 7' perfectly.
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Small arbour but a good line won't coil much anyway.
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Very well engineered I didn't pay full price either but even if I had I'd be happy with it. In fact I went out and bought another one!
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FishingMagic
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Registered: February 2009
Posts: 265789
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Review Date: Wed October 18, 2006
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: None indicated
| Rating: 7
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Superb shimano build quality, the drag ratcheted has a very satisfying rasp to it, not quite a HoH Angel which sounds like an Aston martin but,, dam fine sounding and feeling reel.Throws off water nicely and spool release / lock mechanism like everything
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A hair has become trapped under the handle causing the sliding handle coating to stick making winding a chore at times, hardly the end of the world but on a otherwise near perfect reel I notice little things like this.A bit of a small arbour but this has
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Very nice Overall its not a HoH Angel, but on a shoestring (comparatively) a fantastic fly reel, it wont catch you more fish but anything that adds to the enjoyment of fishing which this reel most certainly does is worth it.
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FishingMagic
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Registered: February 2009
Posts: 265789
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Review Date: Tue January 6, 2009
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: None indicated
| Rating: 8
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Great reel for the money. Fantastic drag, great sound and would stop a train. Also very well made. Holds a lot of backing compared to your average "large arbour" monster. In truth many of these so-called LA reels are actually mid arbour anyway (unlike tru
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Not as light as some due to non-drilled cage. And hey Mr Hutchison HoH Angels look great but the drag adjuster breaks nails and if you play guitar that ain't good at all so I got rid of mine.
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Over priced rubbish ma bahooki!!!! Neat, good looking and extremely competent. Buy one!
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