taylor5877 wrote: The STX would be the reel I'd purchase out of the new introductions.

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Interested to hear more about the new spool weight, and how exactly wider spool improves casting? I thought it would be opposite: wider line angles = more line friction=poor casting performance... “Additional features include a new wider Infini II spool for improved casting performance” I agree tha...

I also tried one two times for a total of half an hour. Not nearly enough of a test for a definite conclusion, but I caught nothing on it. Active bass and panfish were present, and I caught a few small bass on other surface or shallow lures. I'll be trying it again.

I got as far in the review as the $80 price.

My main concern is whether in tying knots, line would catch on the material reinforcing the ends of the glove fingers. (I tie lots of knots in a typical fishing day.) This sentence is no help: "They are cut far back enough so that tying a lure is easily accomplished while taking the gloves off....

The SX has better spool, better free spool system Why is the spool better? What do you mean by "free spool system," and why is it better in the SX? Have you used this Lew's reel? Although no stated the SX has "Infini II™ Spool Design for Extended Castability and Extreme Loads" Y...

Carlos Carrapiço wrote: The SX has better spool, better free spool system

Why is the spool better?
What do you mean by "free spool system," and why is it better in the SX?
Have you used this Lew's reel?

For some reason the Dalton Special sticks out in my mind as a sub-surface rear propeller bait. I think it was something the late Billy Westmoreland used quite successfully for smallmouth back in the day. If that's not the one, perhaps I jogged somebody's memory. After exhaustive research, the actua...

Vladimir, my guess is the washer is there to collect weed fragments.