As much as I love Daiwa (been fishing them mainly for the past like 8 years or so) they frequently make some questionable design choices in general. This becomes an off-topic post, because it's about MagForce/Z/SV - in baitcast, Daiwa's casting brake design is so brilliantly simple and effective in...

If I'm going to do this all day, I go braid so I don't wear out as much as a floating stretchy mono. 3/4 - 1 oz walking bait all day in general, I'm bringing my OG JDM Jackall Poison Adrena 7'0" Heavy Swimbait rod...it's a mod-fast taper and with a H+ backbone and rated up to 2 oz. Another surprisin...

Bump...I'll add a few as well. - Daiwa BLX 6'10" ML LG: 3.35 - Gen II Evergreen Combat Stick RCTC 7'7" MH moving bait rod: 5.14 OZ - OG 2010 Phenix Ultra MBX Classic 707MH: 4.26 - Megabass LWL 30th Anniversary Super Diablo II: 4.35 - Evergreen Heracles EG Swimming 7'2" MH: 4.90 - added today 4/30/24...

Excellent reviews and updates!

Thank you for sharing!

Wow,

Good for you my friend...and yes, it would be great to know whether ROG is still with us.

That's good stuff right that...and great to hear from you James!

Yes I remember his work... IIRC, he was from Thailand. I don't recall his name or handle however.

As a kid, perhaps 10 years old, I loved to fish. Had no money, no boat, old basic tackle. I used to stare at the beautiful and expensive rapalas, which were out of my reach. The local fishing shop owner, all around nice guy, needed rudd as baitfish for ocean fishing. He offered me a rapala f my cho...

JDM_Guy2 wrote: ↑

Wed Apr 17, 2024 5:17 pm

I would.. that is if they all weren't stuck in a tree

Haha, yep...purty much.

Good afternoon everyone!! I recently acquired an old Zillion Type R. The reel looked rough in the pictures but I figured it was just normal wear and tear on an older reel and i'm a sucker for the old TD-Z/Zillion platforms. Well I got the reel, and not sure what the heck happened to this thing, One...

Daaaayyyuuum...great details and information. Thank you for sharing!

Excellent input, thanks for sharing.

Which aftermarket spools are you running in the Silver Wolf? A Roro perhaps?

Was on them today with the 7 medlight spinning. Used for great lakes jerkbait fishing bomb casting a mile when windy. The flexlite is by far the best blank I've ever used for jerkbait fishing and very sensitive. Plentiful of 5 pounders and a toad of a 6 pounder. Now just got to get used to that lon...

LowRange wrote: ↑

Thu Apr 11, 2024 1:19 pm

Loomis has a captive audience of 55+ that will pay full retail no questions asked on Tackle Warehouse or their local shop like Hank Hill buying a car.
https://youtu.be/4oaEfBMA7AE?si=Mgu9peemOnD6FYWe

Rotflmao...good 'un!

So, is Kistler's pricing tactic of always showing a massive price for a rod and then saying 'its what we would have sold them at had we sold to a big store but you get it at this way lower price" legit? ie have his rods ever actually been listed anywhere at the giant price? been looking into his ro...