QUAKEnSHAKE wrote:Look in the thread of the test comparison to enlighten yourself.Tavery5 wrote:So your saying that an experienced angler like Cal needed to use 50% of the Chronarch's available braking to make it comfortable to cast with. Not exactly a ringing endorsement.Bootytrain wrote:Cals brake settings on the Chronarch for the distance test were almost 50% which is what he is comfortable with. Had he went down to one brake on and maybe 3-4 on the dial, the Chronarch would have won the distance portion too.Tavery5 wrote:[quote="Bootytrain]
This, and if we give the same weight to the comparison test done here between the Zillion TWS and the Chronarch CI4 where the testing showed the Zillion TWS to be a better caster and equal to the Chronarch in pitching.
With this new insight basically saying the Zillion TWS and the Tatula are the same reels, with no real world difference shown by the free floating spool, would this not mean that I can purchase a 100 dollar Tatula and have a better caster and the equal pitching reel compared to the 280 dollar Chronarch?
I read it when it was released and I also seen your post to Cal stating much the same thing you did in your previous post as well as his reply. You and I both know that casting distance is way down on the totem pole of features that make for a nice reel. So I guess in my mind the point is probably not worth debating.[/quote]
Thought you were the one going on about casting pitching distance so it must be of some importance to you. I do know a tat cant hang with a ci4 tossing 1/8oz spinnerbaits[/quote][/quote][/quote][/quote][/quote]
Not at all, I was only stating what has been said in the many different reviews, comparisons and other articles written here. One of the first was the comparison of the Tatula to the Tatula Type R. The result of this article was that most of the differences were cosmetic and that the difference in weight between the two spools did not create a discernable difference in casting distance. The result was that the Type R was not worth the difference in price unless you liked the cosmetics.
The next article was a head to head between the Zillion TWS and the Chronarch CI4. Some of the items that were tested to decide which was the better reel was casting distance and pitching. The results were that the Tatula was the better casting reel in terms of distance and that they were equal in pitching abilities.
The final article was the one that started this thread in which Cal states that the Zillion TWS is truthfully just a Tatula with some upgrades and is not the new platform that Daiwa was telling their salesmen to pitch.
If you follow the thread through these articles you will see that the Zillion TWS was the equal of the Chronarch in pitching and was the winner in distance, also stated in another article is that the Zillion TWS is really just a Tatula, and in another article the difference between the two versions of the Tatula is mostly cosmetic with not real difference in casting distance.
With all this said, it only makes since that the regular Tatula since it is the equal to the Type R and the new Zillion TWS with its free floating spool shows not marked improvement over the Tatula in casting distance that they are all each other equals with only small upgrades between them. The head to head test between the Zillion and Chronarch showed that it had better casting distance and equal in pitching ability, so since all the TWS reels have basically no difference in casting abilities as reported by the reviewer. My thought is that I can purchase a 100 dollar Tatula and it be the better casting reel in terms of distance and equal in terms of pitching to the Chronarch.
This is not my opinion, all of this is written here in reviews and head to head comparisons.
Do I believe it, maybe, maybe not. And for your statement about 1/8 once spinnerbaits, neither of the reels were tested at that weight in any of the articles I read, so you may be entirely correct.
My Shims won't backlash unless you try, that's why I use them for night fishing...get out a high end tuned Daiwa and tell me how educated that thumb is.