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So my first fed tournament yesterday, which I tanked unfortunately, almost lost my Dobyns 684 and chronarch while landing a lmb. Grabbed tip of rod as it went under just in time over 17' depth. What do I need to do to the reel? Disassemble air dry an re lube or hard core bearing cleaning and the whole 9? Please throw me advice. First time I fully submerged a reel.

I use it for shallow to medium, awesome rod!

I'm running a Dobyns 684cb with a 201e5 chronarch. Loveeeee this combo!!!!!! My favorite rod I own. I got it on sale and it was around $170. Would I pay more ehhhh. Big maybe.

Running 6# InvizX on my CI4 for drop shot and finesse. It casts great too.

Flintz*

All my salt water reels I pull out my gun polish, Flint, my dremel and a round soft disc, and polish my washers. Noticeable difference on fish 10# and up. Idk if this would be an improvement for freshwater seeing as how I typically have my drag cranked down.

Chronarch is more like a BMW in the shimano line. A citica is like a Honda lol. I own the E5, 6 and 7. I love them. The mono will be good for spinnerbaits. Congrats on purchase.

June 8th Reynolds customer appreciation tourney June 9th Naugatuck food bank tourney If anyone is interested inbox me.

Also paired it with a chronarch E7 and 10# invizX

The *** came in yesterday. Really impressed with the construction and especially the reel seat! Gonna fish it sat morning!

Nice!

Lol the Stella 5000sw last year's model was on clearance for $599 Do you gave the new model Cabo or the last model?

Sustain is awesome! You barely have to put any pressure on the handle and the thing just goes!!! It's like a Stradic that takes creatine! Upset I didn't get the kick stand with the 6000 model for the price. It would have been a awesome feature when I'm fishing from rock jettys. In all honesty if I didn't have the credit from the other reel I most likely would have ended up with the Stradic FJ. This reel ran me 380 and after owning so many shimano reels I feel this is a $319.99 reel. It's a tad over priced but definitely feels far superior to the Stradic. Also happy I didn't get the Stella. Not for nothing either the Quantum Cabo looks and feels like a awesome reel. No more gear for me for years now. I've spent too much the past few months. Lolol

Would like to add I have this paired with St. Croix 2013 Avid 9' surf rod.

So for salt water I've been throwing Bait runner for bait and live lining and usually a Penn for throwing plugs. My girl bought me th Battle 5000 for my b day and bail would close mid cast so called Cabelas, explained and they said bring it back. So I had $116 credit and the Stella was in clearance for $600. Almost pulled the trigger. Debated for 2 hours between Stradic FJ Sustain FG and last year's model Stella. All in all I fell in live with the Sustain and considered the Stella over kill for what I'm doing. Sales guys just couldn't convince me on a Van Staal. Any how no real purpose of my post other than I'm excited as hell to hit my favorite jetty and catch a Striper on this bad boy!

I love shimano but have no experience with the citica. So my only recommendation is get a low gear ratio for cranksbaits.

Found out the technical L grips have a L for a reason, they're the left handed version contoured for left hands. Gotta love shimano! Yea my reel is not bootleg at all. Thank god. @sirsnookalot haven't heard back from the seller but amazons customer service has been great to me thus far. No complaints here. I'm probably going to keep the G model, haven't been able to find a E online other than the 300 version.

@ deep whew! Thanks for confirming. I was about to be very ticked off

Here's the reel

Yeah I checked pics online can't find one that the grips are black and say technical L grip

Urgent I think this reel might be a knock off replica. The handles don't say power grip they say technical grip, it didn't come with oil or tool just Grey brake tabs. Can anyone confirm this who owns the reel before I jump to conclusions.... If they come back and say the E is not available I think I'm gonna just keep this as a spare seeing as how a few searches online I cannot find a new E series.

Update. Called amazon back and the woman I spoke to walked me through how to contact the seller properly via the amazon site. Explained the dilemma again, let's see what happens...

Can not get a hold of anyone from the "Seller" only got a amazon rep on he said I could return for a refund. I explained to him the mix up and I just want the E model. He said he put me on hold and contacted the seller to inquire on the dilemma. Now just waiting on a response. He said if I grow impatient feel free to call anytime and request a return shipping label. Just so you guys know I own 3 chronarchs and could use a 4th reel. Is the G model really that bad? I'm just thinking if it turns out to be a typo if I might as well keep it. Just from reading around the Web the E Curado is basicly the E chronarchs I own. ...mm

Ok so I wanted to grab a older Curado for the hell of it. Ordered a 201e7 from amazon, it came in today and sure enough it is a g7. I paid $135 with shipping so it's a good deal none the less but I wanted the older model Idk what to do now. Keep it and use it or return it? What do you guys suggest?

Ordered the 13 rod. If I don't like it I'll sell it in the flea market TYD $75