John G

Use the same grease on the inside frame as you would on the gears? Or an anti corrosion grease? What about the pinion gear bearing? I have read that it needs to be greased.................but be careful not to get grease inside the pinion gear.I am a little confused about the Anti Reverse Bearing? Is it.....don't get grease on it or it will slip or oil makes it slip?

I have read many posts from guys that say that they can't understand why it is priced as low as it is. It definitely seems like one of the reels to get right now. Congrats again!

Thanks!

How big is the Exsence? Is it big like a Citica 200E or small like a Curado 50E?

Nice reels! I've read where the Exsence is a steal even if you have to pay what we from JDM sources online.

No truer words have ever been spoken!

You have a very nice brother in law! Enjoy the reel!

I let y'all know when I get my Antares HG in a day or so if it's my dream reel or not. I don't know anything about the fancy rods from overseas other than they sure do look great so I will have to settle on what I know. The Antares is going on my Loomis 844IMX but I eventually want to upgrade to the GLX.

Silly as it may sound, there are those that will buy this reel because it's not a Shimano or a Diawa and they will claim that it's just as good or better than Shimano's or Diawa's flagship reels.

You will not have any problems dealing with Jun and Kayo Sonado at Japan Tackle. I just received my third reel from them. 21Farms is right on about the care that is taken with your reel when they ship it and the Japan EMS is a very fast shipping service.

Mono backing so that you don't use more of your costly braid than you need to. A popular method to know how much braid to put on is to fill your spool with the same diameter mono (not # test rating) as your braid, put the heaviest best casting lure on the end of your line that you think that you will cast, make the longest cast that you can make, and then pull an equal amount of mono off of your spool, and then fill with braid. Basically the amount of mono that you are pulling off of your reel is your longest cast X2.

You don't need to fill your spool up with braid. Fill it half full with equivalent size mono and the rest with braid.

Make sure you get the braid on reel tight!

My 50E is as tight as a drum!

My only experience with ceramic bearings was the performance gain wasn't worth the noise. My Curado 50E sounds like a locomotive with ceramics. To be honest, until I get some new factory Shimano bearings for it, I don't know if I had any gains or not because I don't remember how it casted when it was new. When I get the cash, I will be replacing the ceramics with Core 50 bearings.

I have never been able to cast a baitcaster farther than a spinning reel and I consider the distance that I get with my casting reels to be good. I have never used a competition type casting reel or a surf outfit with a few ounces on it but for a bass sized baitcaster compared to a bass sized spinning reel, for me, the spinning reel wins everytime.

I don't have have any of the channels right now that carry the fishing shows but when I did, I noticed a few guys using Loomis rods with the tag still wrapped around the handle. For example, the young guy that won a tournament at Okeechobee, his dad was murdered at the convience store that he owned near Lake Okeechobee, he was using a Loomis flippin stick with the tag still wrapped around the handle. Whenever I see a used Loomis on ebay that still has the tag on the handle, I always wonder if it was used in a tournament and they are selling to recoup some money.

Seeing this Thread yesterday made me check out the TFO Website. I like the looks of their Mangrove rods. They have dealers in my area and IMHO, they are worth a look for $150.00.

Tackle Tour reviewed a Signature Series rod and they mentioned the line and lure ratings were off. Line rating is for a medium but the lure rating is for a medium heavy. The rod they tested, fished like a medium heavy but it was a medium. They also thought that handle felt cheap. http://www.tackletour.com/reviewtempleforkbass.html

This happened last week. I walked from my garage to my bathroom and just about the time I was going over our wood floors it started coming through the cup. I put it in high gear and put the acetone in the bathroom sink and grabbed a towl to clean up anything on the wood floor. No damage was done and I consider myself very lucky.

Acetone eats right through the red plastic Solo type cups.

Judging from that pic, I'll stick with the old Conquest.

Curado 50E. I wanted 4 ball bearings in the handle so I took out the 2 plastic bushings in the knobs and I added 2 bearings.

15# Big Game or 15# Yo-Zuri Hybrid

Bantam 1 talked about this http://forums.tackletour.com/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=54048