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Take a look at these series of photos depicting a Revo Inshore rebuild. The drag is the same. Make sure yours is assembled in the same order, and that you have any oil or excessive grease wiped off the drag discs and washers... http://pierandsurf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=48363

Good to hear that. Once you get used to it, it will cast a country mile!

I have a JM Elite rod (same as Signature but with different guides). It's a 7' MH/F with Recoil guides. I like it plenty. It's very sensitive. I won't buy anymore, though. While it's sensitive, it's not more so than my Fenwick HMGs, which I like a lot better (they are lighter and the grip is more comfortable). I had a JM Elite reel (the blue one) which is a little bit of an upgrade from the Signature (more bearings I think). The reel was excellent. It seemed to be very well made and had an outstandinlgy effective brake. But after 5 months it started to make a squeal that I couldn't get rid of and I suddenly lost casting distance. Never did figure it out, but admittedly I didn't try very hard. I simply took it back to BPS after 5 months and got a refund. In short, I liked the rod and reel. But I have different preferences. But if you like them, I think they will serve you very well.

Frank, I was a little concerned about your assertion. With the merger of Pflueger and Abu Garcia under the Pure Fishing banner I thought for a moment that Abu may have decided to adopt the Pflueger combo brake so that they didn't have two lines of reels with different brake systems. IMO, that wouldn't have been all bad as the Pflueger (also high-end Johnny Morris reels) have outstanding combo brakes. But it appears not. That concern was further fed by the fact that Bob Hulme, the head of reel service for Pure Fishing, told me week before last that the service centers for Shakespeare, Pflueger and Abu Garcia were combining and consolidating in Iowa (I think Iowa). I haven't had a chance to talk with him since he passed that info along so I couldn't ask. But for pure rumor it appears to me Abu will continue along on its own path.

99.9% of users say the brake is fine. Roadwarrior says it isn't. Hmmm. Who will I go with? You haven't taken the time with the reel. Or you simply don't want to give a fair assessment. I suspect it's both. Given your continual comments that "I only fish Shimano and encourage others to do that same" (as well as other declarations usually followed by "PERIOD") I suspect there is more than just a wee bit of bias in your "review." But that's okay. Liike I said, the quality and refinement of the reel has already been assessed above your power at this point to add or detract.

No. The Team All Star IM10 is a different rod and has been around for awhile. The ASR is a new rod. I don't have one but I've heard good things about them. I've handled them in the store and seem excellent.

Can you post a link to what you are talking about? Edit: Alright. I see what you are talking about. For some reason they have the Revos listed as "new." The product description for the STX doesn't say anything about the centrifugal brake, but the SX does. This is an error. The sentence about the brake in the SX description looks like they mixed the STX and Skeet Reese brake descriptions together. Read the STX and Skeet Reese description and you'll get the SX description. They made a similar error in their last catalog which generated some confusion. BPS is not known for accuracy in its product descriptions. (BPS also knocked $.01 off some rods a few months back then advertised a "sale" on them.)

That's an error on the part of BPS. That's been in their catalog, and people who don't know better, have been repeating it since th reel came out. BTW, there was a picture of a Revo S with "7.1:1" stamped on the drag in last year's BPS ctalog. There isn't a 7.1:1 Revo S. Caveat emptor when it comes to BPS's catalog.

Not using the brake is nonsense. Do what I said in my earlier post and your reel will cast like a champ.

RW, I have several Revos with the magnetic brake and I use the brake, like the brake, and after fishing them for a considerable amount of time feel the brake is very refined. I understand you don't like the reel, you make that abundantly clear at any and every opportunity. You are certainly entitled to your opinion. But the simple fact is is that you've been predicting the Revo will fail since they've been out. But it hasn't. The reel has been a huge success and the positive opinions far outweigh the comparatively few negative opinions. Face it, you were wrong, and your predictions of doom and gloom seem silly at this point given the prima facie success of the reel. And by the way, if you haven't learned to use the reel with one setting for 90% of your fishing, you simply haven't taken the time to learn the reel. In that regard, your opinion of the brake is underqualified to say the least.

I have some Team All Star IM10s and American Classics. They are great rods. The American Classics are so close in weight and sensitivity to the IM10s that I think the AC is a better value. They are super-tough, too.

I can't comment about using these as drop shot baits. But I would not have though of that. Just holding them they sure don't jiggle much. I'll give the drop shot rig a try, and I'll try them on some jig heads.

Any recommendation on the type of fluke? Brand, size, etc?

These are tiny little versions of the 5" swimbaits. I friend gave me some and I thought I'd try them for smallies. But they are so small I have no idea how to rig them. Any thoughts?

I'm glad somebody finally said it What was wrong with the Ds? Anything, and I mean anything, was an improvement over the Curado B - IMO the worst piece of **** ever perpetrated on the fishing world . I thought the D was a fantastic reel - adressing all of the deficiencies in the B. Heck, they were good enough that I bought three, and even kept one. After looking at the E, I think the D was the best of Curados to date.

The Revo S, Winch, Inshore and Skeet Reese have centrifugal brakes. The Revo SC, SX, STX and Premier have magnetic brakes. With Revos (unlike some Pfluegers) it's one or the other, not a combination of both.

Do you have a favorite soft plastic for carolina rigging in the fall?

Yep. Sometimes one click makes a lot of difference.

Hardly.

You must have the Buzzjet Jr. I wish I had gotten the Jrs instead of he full sized Buzzjets.

I have some Deps Buzzjets. They are big, heavy wakebaits. They have a very wide wobble. They are nicely made, and have the sharpest hooks on the planet. I like them, but my Ima Roumbas have been more productive in the came water under the same conditions. Unless they start catching more fish, I won't buy anymore. At $26 per lure, they ought to produce better than they do. If you are looking for a nice wakebait, I'd skip the Buzzjet and get some Ima Roumbas, or some Jackalls (Mikey, Mikey Jr. or Dagored). I don't have experience with any other Deps lures.

Best new generation Rage Tail yet!

I've been fishing the Revo SX since they come out. The problem is that your spool is spinning too fast during the cast. The spool tension knob, not the brake, controls spool speed. The brake controls deceleration. Set your brake to zero. Then adjust your spool tension knob so that when you push the thumbar whatever lure you are using falls to the ground with a little jiggle of the rod tip. (It's it's falling to the floor without a jiggle, it's set too loose.) Now start casting. Watch your spool during the cast. Continue to tighten the spool tension knob just until the line barely does what its doing, but not more. When it gets to this point you can control it further with your thumb. When increasing the spool tnesion knob, adjust it in miniscule increments. Then watch what your spool does once the lure hits the water/ground. If it loops up then, increase your brake setting. I find that about 25% brake works for 90% of the fishing I do with the reel. Once you have it set, you will get fantastic casting distance with minimal thumb input. Do not rely on articles telling you to set the spool tension knob so that the lure drops to the floor and the spool continues to turn 1/4 or 1/2 or whatever. That may work for some reels, but it is way too loose for the Revo SX. The reason the SX is different from the S in this respect is the brake. The centrifugal brake on the S does have an impact on spool speed IMO. The magnetic brake on the SX much less so. I've done lots of casting with both and compared the dynamics of the cast to know this is the case.

Thanks. I fish a lot of tidal water in SE Virgina. I, too, like fishing the outgoing tide. When I do, I fish around structure since bass will often hold around structure to ambush prey moving out (or in) with the tide. As far as seeing activity, I find it hard to catch the fish that are driving that activity. Often times in VA tidal water it's gar, not bass, that are driving the baitballs of fish. Shad are the main forage of tidal bass in VA. In situations like that, a shiny silver lipless crank sometimes works. Lately, I've had a lot of luck fishing small frogs in shallow water late in the afternoon. There's lots of bass activity in the shallows, especially in vegetation, after about 3:00 PM where I am. A Net Bait or Wright Bait frog have been my best producers under these circumstances.

When you say you can see some activity what do you mean?