garyfish340

The Gen 1, and 2 revo, are nothing to sneeze at. For the money these reel were awesome. If you need to flip or pitch light objects, you'll probably need to bear down on the spool tension, and up the magnets a bit, than experiment with loosening up on them, and educating you thumb to the spool. I found the more upscale, and now defunct Revo skeet reese casts the light lures like it was made for it. It's worth hunting down on ebay. They are a super reel. ( I use trout magnets for smallies, in the local creek. ) Here's the Xcraftic frame of the revo S. It's all aluminum.

This post is extremely misleading. At some point next fall I intend to start a youtube " Fishing gear review" series. uhfradarwill : Seems to be under the impression that a Xcraftic frame is graphite. All Abu Garcia did is use computer analysis to create a frame that removes metal where it is not needed. The Gen 2,and 3 both have aluminum frames, the later frame is lighter. Example: under the Xcraftic reel foot there are 4 divots in the aluminum, those areas don't need to be solid aluminum, there's no benefit in strength by having a solid foot. As far as Gen 3 revo's go, I'm not a big advocate of carbon fiber components. These kind of components are strong, and will handle big fish, but don't feel trading off longevity for weight is a good idea. If it cost over $100 bucks, I want it to work for long enough to give to my grand children. Yhat's my opinion.