LgMouthGambler

Still trying to hold back........its slipping...........I cant hold it anymore!

Oh crap! Lol

Both good, but its a matter of preference. What feels better for you. There, I kept it non biased, happy? Lol.

Run your fingers over the line and feel for abrasion. Retie when you feel its needed. I can go weeks without a retie, sometimes onlly minutes.

It was too low, now its too high. Had a tourney there Mon thru Wed, and they were soo spread out, they were hard to find. Pelican bay and the Schoal are going to be the better spots.

I love me some fast reels. The slowest I will fish is a 6.4, and thats what my 50's are for.

What you need to do is throw that crap in the dumpster, and get some better line. Try some YoZuri Hybrid. Easy to cast, and strong as hell.

Electronics are not necessary. I use a good swimbait that I am confident in. Most of the time I am fishing heavy covered areas, and electronics do nothing but tell me depth of the water. Basically disect the area, fish all angles and retrieve speeds. No bites, move on.

Sometimes the more expensive baits dont produce much better in my opinion. I use a lot of Bass Pro baits, Zoom baits, Rage, Charlies, etc. I think each company has some baits that they make better than others.

That pretty much sums it up.

The best way to fish them, is to be the frog. If you saw a frog trying to swim or jump across an area, what do you think it would be doing?

Went out this morning for a bit to fish. Fished at a pond called Gibson Pond and had a small pickerel bite my frog, but nothing else other than exploring some woods. Drove over to the dam to try and throw some cranks, spooks, and spinnerbaits, and I had a huge longnose gar hit my crank. It faught pretty good, but shook himself off when I gotnit to the shore. Hopefully have better luck with Ninga tomorrow.

I have noticed that there has been less of them around lately. I think people have caught on to eating them? They will be back. You have to go during the afternoon. During the day they are on the bottom and they dont eat.

I would fish those reels as well as some new ones. Those are amazing old workhorses.

d**n guys, good stuff.

To answer YOUR question, I am simply trying to save the OP the money that he would spend to try and do something that will make the reel perform in no noticable difference. I have owned PQ's, and have tried to modify them to cast farther/smoother, etc. It was a was a waste of money, and was nowhere close to the performance of my Shimanos. You can take it any way you want. Sure I suggest Shimano products for the reels, and if you dont like them then dont buy them. I will not loose any sleep over you not fishing a Shimano reel.

Fat guy with a little head.

I would look into the revo S instead of the SX due to the cent. brakes that the S has. Anywway, as noted in the other post, I would as well suggest the YoZuri line, 12-15# should work just fine. YoZuri is strong and abrasive resistant.

Save all the money that you would spend to upgrade all 5 of the PQ's and buy a Curado or Chronarch, and then you will understand why they are highly recommended.

Do what roadwarrior is saying about fishing structure, points, etc. The only way that you are going to be able to find the fish all the time is by fishing the body of water enough that you have everything in the water located.

I am all in on that! Maybe we can get it on a coin? lol

Love them both, but if I had to choose, I would go with the Chronarch D.

And this is why I dont care for these reels. My knowing that all these reels are mass produced for Abu, Fleuger, Lews, and BPS, just turns me off to buying one again. No reel has proved me better than my Shimanos.

Still use Culprit worms, tequila colored for me is the best. 5/0 straight and a 1/4oz bullet. Great for bedding monsters.

6" Zoom Lizard, watermelon red.