Crow, did you get what you were looking for? I love the look of the reel (the Blue ring really sets it off in my opinion) but, like you, i am more a feeder/lead and a small bit of Float type, but i am seriously thinking of buying one. Have never used one before and did buy a Pin before and then sold it as i was a bit worried about making a fool of myself, something i find easier as i get older for some reason
Possibly all the wrong reasons, but we only live once unfortuately
I had been thinking about it for a while after watching Steve (binka) a few times and although I have trotted before (pre the shakes
) it has always been with a fixed spool and I just fancied a change so.
The first one I got was a TFG classic I also got the line guard as I didn't fancy the line flapping about while retrieving, I have used it exclusively since I got it getting more used to it things such as where the ratchet button is that sort of thing, all the use has been on still water but it has performed faultlessly for me with none of the gremlins I was warned about regarding tolerances and stuff like that.
It was because I wanted one for laying on in a river being able to just ease the float down the swim slowly as well the ratchet on the TFG wasn't imo strong enough to counteract the flow of a river and although I could have got away with using a laggy band round the rod to tuck the line in I just didn't fancy it and decided to drop more than a few hints about another pin resulting in the one I posted about in this thread, it has a strong ratchet that I need its british made and amazon are doing them for £69-95 instead of the rrp of £99-99, the shop It was purchased from matched that price so that's where it came from (Fosters)
All I can say is if you fancy one get one, which one is imo all down to personal preference and bank account but I haven't read anything bad about the one I have but no doubt you can get some very good advice about pins on here what you wont get very often is agreement about them
its all very personal.
I got a few strange looks on some waters when I was casting by pulling line from the rings but I don't mind that in fact my favourite saying comes to mind f*** um
I reckon you will enjoy one Ken do it mate you wont regret it.