Excellent small baitrunner

[dezza]

For my barbel fishing this coming season, I decided to aquire a couple of smallish bait runners. I decided on the Shimano DL 4000FA reel which I picked up for 25% off RRP.

These are superb reels, very compact for bait runners and believe it or believe it not they are black; or perhaps a very dark shade of deep purple with no bling at all.

Very classy.

I'll do a more complete review after I have used them a few times.

 

[sam vimes]

I love the small 4000 sized baitrunners for all my barbel fishing other than long chucks on big rivers like the Trent. I have 4000Ds and, for lighter specialist fishing, XT2500FAs. They've rendered the old 5010GTs well and truly redundant. The front drag on any of the small baitrunners is far better than any of the rear drag models I've tried. Unless you are fishing for big carp or barbel at extreme range with monster feeders, I can't see any reason for using the standard 5000 to 10000 size rear drag baitrunners. I suspect that many general coarse anglers and even matchmen fishing the feeder on commercials would also be well served by the 2500 or 4000 sized small baitrunners.

 

[Tee-Cee]

I fancy one of those................did you pick it up on ebay Ron??

...........hope thats not too much of a leading question...I just like the 25% off!!

 

[Lord Paul of Sheffield]

Whatever Ron has paid for it - it will double the price of his car next time he put the reel in the boot to go fishing:wh

 

[tigger]

I had a pair of them and sold em due to the fact that they felt cheap and nasty. I didn't like the front drag either.

 

[Bluenose]

For my barbel fishing this coming season, I decided to aquire a couple of smallish bait runners. I decided on the Shimano DL 4000FA reel which I picked up for 25% off RRP.

These are superb reels, very compact for bait runners and believe it or believe it not they are black; or perhaps a very dark shade of deep purple with no bling at all.

Very classy.

I'll do a more complete review after I have used them a few times.

You haven't used them in anger yet you refer to them as superb Ron? Personally I'd wait and see how they are after 2 years of use before lavishing such praise mate.

I know a bloke well itk in the tackle trade who is livid because he bought a very expensive shimano model (x2) which is apparently 5 years old and yet he reckons Shimanos policy is now such that any reels over five years old cannot be repaired because they will no longer carry spares.

 

[Peter Jacobs]

I know a bloke well itk in the tackle trade who is livid because he bought a very expensive shimano model (x2) which is apparently 5 years old and yet he reckons Shimanos policy is now such that any reels over five years old cannot be repaired because they will no longer carry spares. __________________

Well, those were only £600 a piece, so I don't know what he expected . . . . .

[insert U-no-Wot > > > H E R E ]

 

[Lord Paul of Sheffield]

Well, those were only £600 a piece, so I don't know what he expected . . . . .

[insert U-no-Wot > > > H E R E ]

It's the fact that he doesn't look after his reels that's the problem :wh:wh

 

[quickcedo]

I have 2 of these little baitrunners which I used for my Barbel fishing last year. So far they are faultless. The funny thing is having used and abused them for a year I absolutely love the front drag. One mans meat and all that.

 

[dezza]

You haven't used them in anger yet you refer to them as superb Ron? Personally I'd wait and see how they are after 2 years of use before lavishing such praise mate.

I know a bloke well itk in the tackle trade who is livid because he bought a very expensive shimano model (x2) which is apparently 5 years old and yet he reckons Shimanos policy is now such that any reels over five years old cannot be repaired because they will no longer carry spares.

Isn't it strange how one is taken out of context.

I did say that I would do a more complete review at a later stage. I have used Shimano reels both fixed spool and multiplying since 1979, in salt water and in fresn and I've never had a problem with them.

I HAVE had problems with other makes of reels but I'll not mention the makes.

 

[Lord Paul of Sheffield]

Ron
I too have "saved" money by buying cheaper other brand reels but they didn't last and now I'll only buy shimanos

 

[dezza]

Good for you mate.

There are all sorts of weird reel makes around today.

"Eurorunner" for £10.00, "Firerunner" for £15, Avanti, 2 for £30.

Personally I stick with Daiwa and Shimano. You can't go wrong with those brands.

 

[Poshpaul (Angling Trust and PaSC)]

I use mainly shimanos....either exages or my beloved 5010 baitrunners (I now have a pair). I will say that the 2500 exages can be almost too smooth..but a little bit of slighter thicker grease in the innards resolves this. However I also have 3 Okuma epix reels..the original models..and they are superb..had them for must be about 10 years now and they have never let me down.

I shall be interested to hear how you get on with the mini-baitrunners, Ron; certainly they have had not so much mixed reviews as polarised ones!

 

[Bluenose]

Isn't it strange how one is taken out of context. I did say that I would do a more complete review at a later stage.

What exactly have I taken out of context?

I just find it strange that you called the reel superb before you have used it for any length of time that's all!

 

[gremlin]

Ron Clay?????..........have we met? are you well travelled? mg:

 

[Poshpaul (Angling Trust and PaSC)]

are you well travelled?

Blimey, I haven't heard that phrase since I shared digs with a bloke from the Black Country. One of the first things he asked me was "Are you well travelled, Paul?". I can hear that accent now...(He almost hit first time we met as a I called him a brummie.) Took it very bad!! Mind you his concept of well travelled was Pembroke Dock!!...oh and welcome gremmers(Are you from that area by the way?) :w

 

[gremlin]

Blimey, I haven't heard that phrase since I shared digs with a bloke from the Black Country. One of the first things he asked me was "Are you well travelled, Paul?". I can hear that accent now...(He almost hit first time we met as a I called him a brummie.) Took it very bad!! Mind you his concept of well travelled was Pembroke Dock!!...oh and welcome gremmers(Are you from that area by the way?) :w

I'm from the forest.

 

[Poshpaul (Angling Trust and PaSC)]

Thought there was an arboreal twang there:w

 

[gremlin]

Thought there was an arboreal twang there:w

Whatmore would you expect?........i'll get anyone shot. :wh

 

[dezza]

Am I well Travelled?

Ireland, Wales, Scotland, France, Germany, Belgium, Hungary, Croatia, Switzerland, Spain, Italy, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Russia, Poland, Czec Republic, Austria, Egypt, Israel, UAE, USA, Canada, Mexico, Portugal, South Africa, Swaziland, Lesotho, Namibia, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Angola, Botswana, Ghana, Rwanda, Madagascar, Mauritious, Malawi, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Thailand, Australia, New Zealand, and another 20 or so banana states in Africa.