Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: None indicated
| Rating: 7
Pros:
Baitrunner system and cranking power are very good and solidly built, line lay and capacity are excellent and compare well againt earlier models.
Cons:
Bail arm jumps after initial turn of the handle and the clutch is very poor when playing a fish, no fine adjustment, you really have to undo it a fair bit before the spool will give line, this can be quite nerve racking when a fish runs off whilst using t
Disapointing Disapointing by shimano standards, though must say that the faults are not major or worrying enough to send the reel back. I am comparing this reel against my 3 6000gte and 2 5000gte, this may be a one off build quality issue or perhaps the reel was produ
FishingMagic Administrator
Registered: February 2009 Posts: 265800
Review Date: Fri February 17, 2006
Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: None indicated
| Rating: 8
Pros:
Cons:
Little bit heavy Great reel for this money
FishingMagic Administrator
Registered: February 2009 Posts: 265800
Review Date: Thu May 22, 2008
Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: None indicated
| Rating: 8
Pros:
I use the reels for barbel, carp and pike fishing. The reels are bigger than required for most barbel/river work but are big enough for longer casts when carp and pike fishing on larger waters. They are fairly heavy but they are solid, quality engineering
Cons:
The clutch tightens up in very definite increases of resistance. There is no fine tuning these like my smaller Shimano Exage. Designed, I think, for lines of at least 6lb but they big reels so...
Quality engineering. Very happy, they do what I bought them to do and they feel like they will go on, and on, and on, and on, and...
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