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Geez man just put some rubbing alcohol on a swab and wipe the excess oil you put on the spools shaft and the race the brakes touch as the spool rotates. Get the oil off the brakes too while your at it, it'll cast fine. If you hate it so much just go buy a Revo/BPS/Phoolger real from the mongo conglomerate.

FWC in their emergency order did allow the removal of dead fish of any kind including the snook. In that order NO allowance was made for the possession to include keeping and consuming the snook, only the proper disposal to normal waste.

I use the speed worm and ultra vibe version, when I can find it. Work it weightless steadily thru emergent shoreline grass and duck weed. Very successful technique.

Trick Worm for sure, super fluke second.

You can even do it yourself. There is a pic by pic instructional page on shimano's site on how to replace it. Might be hard to find the part though, seems like they've run out of parts on recent discontinued models pretty quickly these days. There's a list of models with no available parts on the site too.

I do believe the Mojo is made in Mexico not the u.s. But it is still a great rod though many are tip heavy. Its well built.

True it still has value, but why buy it new knowing availability of parts is minimal. Especially if a newly introduced model at the same $ will have parts available for more years ahead.

Thanks for the info Wayne.

The old Fuego, all red, was a beautiful reel. The Sol? Orande body/frame and a grey rotor? Yuck. Still why get a reel that is ordained to be cancelled after the end of this model year.

The Coastal is the same as a Tierra but with a CRBB. Honestly the CI4 does cast farther than any spinning reel I've ever had. But with light braid any spinning reel casts farther than most people can throw accurately anyway.

Is Color-Rite a brand name? I dont think I understand, is it a fabric dye or is it something fishing specific? Thats a great idea the way you did that, I'd like to try it.

Your right its not fair......to compare brand new first year run technology with a reel not only out for a few years but on the cusp of being replaced. Both Sols won a years reprieve but are due to be replaced by the next. That being said it'll only be a year or so before parts arent available. Daiwa and Shimano are both notorious for that, my Curado D's are one series back and no parts are available.

Fly fishing leader wallet. It has small ziploc sleeves, lays flat and has a velcro closure. BPS has one under their White River in house brand. I use it all the time walking the bank saltwater fishing.

Hey SW Fl Kid...where you at? I'm in Englewood. Nice to know theres somebody here thats close to home.

I love my 2500 CI4. I hardly pick up another reel since I got it. It is fluid smooth compared to Daiwas Tierra and Coastal series'.

No matter how much I try to like my Cumara's, and St Croix Legends Tournament rods, I cant say I enjoy using them anymore than my St Croix Premier or Mojo $90 rods. Look for clearances at local shops too. My favorite rod is a Crucial crankbait rod I found at a small shop cut to $60.

Did you make sure the thumb bar was in the upright position when you reassembled the reel? Wish I could help you more, but Im the kind that has to see it and feel it to figure out how to make it work. Reel Mech or JFrancho should come around eventually and they could help you.

Yeah knots seem tempermental with floro. I just got a spool of 8# P-Line floro Im gonna try tomorrow.

Open the left side plate. There is a stainless cross support rod between the sides of the frame. You can see it has a slot for a screwdriver. It has to be unscrewed first.

Man I wish 25+ reds were abundant on my side of the gulf coast. Way too much fishing pressure, thy're as wary as up north carp and just as smart. Ive never caught a red on a worm but a buddy has in the front of the boat. He rigged it with a light jig head and hopped it along the bottom. I have caught reds on slug-go's. The water I fish has just as much snook as it has bass and I find bass tactics work equally well on saltwater fish that have become landlocked in freshwater.

If I remember right a weightless 5" Yamamoto Senko weighs nearly 3/8oz. Any casting reel should throw that. Wacky style I prefer using a spinning reel. Texas rigged I prefer a baitcaster. I find a 4" Senko more successful and only throw that on a spinning rig.

I found 10# Seaguar Red Label close to unmanagable. Co Poly in 10# would probably be better. I think the reel shine with 6 or 8#. Better yet 10# braid which Im finally getting used to.

The E series. It just didnt feel solid to me. The D series was all I ever wanted in a casting reel, it even looked classy. The goofy color of the E was too much bling to me and its bright silver handle, star and cast control cap looked more like plastic than metal. The worm gear cover was black plastic instead of metal like the D. The gear was slimmed down to half the thickness of the D's. Fine for a bass only reel maybe, but not if you target multiple species.

This year Im trying to become a better jig fisherman especially now during colder weather. Alot of places I fish dont have crawfish or hard bottoms. Im thinking swim jigs and bucktails. How do you fish a buck tail? Steady retrieves, jerky, hopping? Do you often use a trailer like a curly tail grub?

I got mine in Nov. and it was the only one the local shop could get from his distributor, so maybe its more the middle mans fault not Shimano. As far a performance goes I caught a Snook that went 12# on the boga yesterday. The drag was smooth and powerful. The reel seems solid and strong. After the disappointment the new curado was to me, Ive been buying Daiwa. But this reel has started to build back my confidence in Shimano. A spare spool would be nice, but I've never actually needed a spare in the field for the 50 years Ive fished so Im not worried about it now.