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Yea shallow spool and SV Light offers a 9 gear ratio. I would just buy another 24 Steez instead too.

Very nice. I'm aware its supposed to a flipping stick but it's rated MH+, wondering if it's a broom stick like 611MH

Doesn't always have to be the latest and greatest, but fishing is more fun when you add new stuff to try out, makes me look forward to getting out on the water even more.

Had an NRX 802 in spinning a long time ago, thoughts of trying a casting version resurfaced recently. Never owned a GLX BCR before and always had been intrigued by their styling. Excited to fish it this season, I'm in socal so we do a lot of slow dragging smaller size worms with light lines in super clear waters.

I had been wanting a GLX BCR802 for some time, finally found one. Mint and local. Happy 2026!

Very nice review. I have not fished the newer style GLX MBRs, only the old models with wiebe seats. I always tell myself if the 843 had the 783 tip, it would have been the perfect bass fishing rod, at least for me.

Reel covers and try not to leave them upside down. Be careful with TW reel covers though. I have been using them for many years, heard about them bleeding onto reels with light paint, just happened to one my reels. It's always the strap part that wraps around the gearbox area.

Just came back from spending some time with the Okuma X-series 73H i picked up from the sale. I probably wouldn't pay retail for one but for how much i got it for, I'm satisfied.

Use a small amount just enough for cork to absorb and prevent fillers from coming off. That won't change the feel or create slippery coat, i don't like that either.

Wouldn't worry about it. Fuji Sic and alconites are the best in the industry.

This was around the time black widow production rods just came out and they were heavily marketing HM as the next greatest blank ever. You go to their website and read HM or X-ray description and see "by the way our IM is just as good and cost about the half". It was a classic bait and switch tactic. It was probably me lol man it was ridiculous after spending like $1000...i ordered two Gucci bags and got Coach bags instead and they had the nerve to tell me they sent me Coach because they think it's just as good as Gucci. Does that make sense? Lol

Scorpion 1500 XT

When TW carried Black Widows, i ordered two during the sale once. When they arrived i noticed they were IM blanks, not HM. I emailed NFC and after some bafk and forth with Collin, I sent them back to TW for refunds. He pretty much said IM is jis as good as HM and Gary Loomis builds however he wants each day. I was like yea not paying $500 per rod for this BS lol

Ok i wasn't aware it's a rod, thought it was a reel and for some reason i thought it was sent back to japan lure shop. Sorry

UPS probably decided they wanted to check the origin of aluminum of the goods and JLS most likely didn't declare on the shipping info. May be it was a good thing this happened and it got sent back as you would've gotten hit with another 50% duty.

It was pretty norm before especially with high modulus carbon prepreg, new and improved rollers squeezing so hard, it was impossible to make them straight like Indian hair.

d**n that's crazy. I'm assuming that's 50% aluminum tariff?

Your best bet will be EBay or some sort of. Typically Doyo are not sold outside of Korea. I see some overseas website selling them but i don't know if they are legit.

Better take care of it quick before they charge more fees on top of that.

It's all personal satisfaction. People buy, spend money on stuff they like. Also i don't worry about how other people spend their money like on g loomis just because i don't care for it. That's just weird.

Mixed feelings on tubular tip models (610M and 611MH), no complaints on solid tip models (71MH and 73H) I really like the 73H, more versatile, cast great, hooksets feel awesome if you like crossing eyes

No this is for shimano north america. Let's not turn this into another "i buy from japan"

Now we are done crying over Daiwa price increase, here's how much shimano will increase on their products.

Talking about g loomis rods made by Gary loomis/pre shimano g loomis, as for imx/glx MBR/SJR/CR, the longest were 78inch (6ft6in) and had wiebe seat and pac bay guides. Gary did make slightly longer MBR in IM6 and Premiere series which were either telescopic or multi piece. 7ft glx/imx MBR models weren't released until transition period, very few had pac bay guide trains, first changes shimano made during transition period were to fuji guide trains, then fuji reel seats around 2003. So IMO if your pre shimano g loomis doesn't have wiebe seat and pac bay guides, it's not a pre shimano g loomis.

So who's going to be the first to buy the newly added $1000 poison ultima to have "this is the most sensitive rod ever!" moment on the internet 😂