Hi Salenity

It means he agrees and so do I but if you can't afford or can't have the extra weight ... You can wire the 2 batteries to get 12v from one battery and 24v from the other 2

I wouldn't get caught up with balance. To me it's almost irrelevant. If I'm casting or reeling I it will never balance. It will only truly balance while dead sticking. That said if your looking at St Croix the LTB is more tip heavy than the extreme I'd find a nice 7'ML rod and call it a day!

8-10# nanofil with 8# abrazx leader

Welcome home

Next time lay it next to your rod for a length and you can measure it later

It has the same antireverse pawl all of the Lews reels have.

I will say I liked the longer handle the MG has.

I love my Patriarch spinning reel!

The MG only has magnetic breaks.

I'm going to back peddle on this a bit have you looked at the Speed Spin? It has an extra spool that's super shallow and designed for braid. You may be able to get the 2500-300 size that will feel like your other reels and use the braid spool without backing. I don't think any of the other Lews reels have an extra spool but correct me if I'm wrong?

Lews tournament pro Curado 50e

Does it choke out other vegetation?

my apologies to fishguy for derailing his train and taking his thread off topic but, what is the "slime belt", how deep does it go and is it in the water or just a coating on the rocks...

I always take my $30 Sienna and $200 patriarch both are the 1000 size and other than the $200 one is allot fancier looking they fish about the same.

RIP

Happy birthday!

I love all my ltp's but I'm going to stick with pfluger or a sienna for my spinning needs

They make it in pink!I've been doing good catching smallies on a pink worm and was thinking about getting the pink reel just to fish the pink worm...

Anything 18" ?

Did u catch any fish?

Download the battery doctor app it will help and you can see what's using your batteries life

I don't like to use a reel bigger than the 100 size. If caught some fairly large smallies on them with no problems.

I like the look of the bladed jig!

I'd go to Apple and watch the videos, they do a good job pointing out the features...

I went ahead and got it downloaded to my phone a few hours ago. So far so good, time will tell