very nice...gratuitous power handles are never a bad thing...

You can fish for sturgeon in CA? You fish for sturgeon here, you get a fat ticket.

Merci, Richard!

Looks like we got a new player in the game. Right in that ZPI/Bassart price range, and just across the pond!

Bon chance to GFC, and to you Richard, a beautiful product (and a beautiful bass in the photo)!

nevermind on that link...there's a sticky at the top of the forum...man I'm an idiot....

Also, I know this is a stupid question already, but I'm gonna ask it just to be sure.... When google translates things like "bus fishing", I'm assuming it's meant to be "bass fishing", correct? Or is there some other meaning for the word "bus" in japan? I've noticed it on a few japanese sites...alon...

Japan Tackle is definitely who you should talk to to get anything sent over here if the manufacturer won't send it. Personally, I like to drool over all the available parts...it reminds me what I'm saving money for. Here's some more eye candy. I haven't seen anything from these guys on here in a whi...

Several guys here on the forum do supertuning. Nitroman77, D.R., and I believe e_bassfisher, are just a few. You may be skeptical because you don't know them, but their reputations are stellar, and I would trust them with any reel I owned. That is, if I didn't work on my reels myself. Look around in...

Yea that's one of the most important bearings ever. In the history of bearings. Boca usually will have a set denoted (spool) that comes with 2 bearings and then another set that comes with three. The (spool)set comes with one sideplate bearing and one shaft bearing. The three set usually comes with ...

Thank you. I had two letters wrong in the name and couldn't figure it out!

I didn't pay anything for mine, I don't have one...I work at the local BPS on weekends...sorry, no pictures, apparently the high lords of BPS frown upon paparazzi behind the reel counter...would have used my phone but use of a phone while on the clock is a fireable offense. The profile is eerily sim...

Pretty sure they'll fit. Pfleuger reels come out of the same factory as BPS reels.

Got two favorites in that bait: 1) Bluegill 2) Golden Tenn. Shad

Can anyone hook me up with a link? I seem to have lost all of mine somewhere...methinks the wife has secretly (and maybe unknowingly) destroyed my list of enthusiast tackle links...

so beautiful, yet so expensive

I like them too much.

OOOOOOOOOOO...pretty.... ....Do tell, sil vous plait, do standard Daiwa knobs fit the handles?