Otherwise what's the odds of salt falling out of the hook hole in a sweet beaver on another rod and eating the frame of a steez limited?

Sorry for taking so long. I was able to get the reel taken apart this morning and check on all the things you guys have told me to look at. The route of all this drama ended up being the pinion support bearing(the one under the CC knob). Thank you doomtrprz71 for sharing! The bearing was completely...

bigturtle wrote: ↑

Sun Aug 13, 2023 6:32 pm

I want to buy some replacement gears but I cant seem to access their parts order page (https://www.plat.co.jp/shop/catalog/optionparts/). Is anyone else having this problem? Where else can I buy gears for JDM reels?

Works for me

I have a custom glass rod for throwing chatterbaits inshore for reds and trout, it had a steez a hlc but it was a bit wild in the wind for my tastes and it now has a jdm zillion HD and it's perfect. Personally I prefer glass for saltwater because it is much better for fighting a fish. I think a lot...

I have a custom glass rod for throwing chatterbaits inshore for reds and trout, it had a steez a hlc but it was a bit wild in the wind for my tastes and it now has a jdm zillion HD and it's perfect.

I had a similar issue with my Z2020, it ended up being a bad bearing in the upper pinion support

It sure looks like the AliExpress version.....

hoohoorjoo wrote: ↑

Sat Jul 08, 2023 11:12 am

Years back, St. Croix just used rebranded Daiwa reels. I miss those days!

Now that I could get behind

Since St Croix has decided to get in the reel business

They are as close as I know to compare an x-ray blank to the C6O2 blank.

I could see this being the case since one was production, and the other a custom. The only fair way to test this would be both blanks built the same way with the same components. If anything the test is in favor of the Epitome since it has rec guides, that's essentially the only difference is the g...

So I'll admit I didn't need the Epitome when edge launched the preorder last year but I did need a similar rod so I bit. After I got it I did fish it a couple times and thought it was a plain rod with a nice blank. Well hitting our local trophy PFA and fishing them head to head was interesting. I en...

Now I find myself in a pickle

The scorpion 21 I was looking at on ebay sold, my z2020h is going to fish again, and I found a gancraft tatula mango I forgot about buying off another TT member, looks like I need to be rod shopping

... if I buy an slx it'll be the jdm xt version the us version does have dc-4. Then really only the '17 Scorp DC is comparable because the '21 Scorp DC is a 150 sized reel. It all depends on your intended application and more importantly, preferred line at that point. So the 17 and the 21 scorpions...

Slazmo wrote: ↑

Thu Jun 15, 2023 1:55 pm

Don't the JDM Scorpion DC's run the iDC-5. Over the poxy DC-4 found in the Curado and SLX?

All of those listed run iDC5, if I buy an slx it'll be the jdm xt version the us version does have dc-4.