Sammies77

My favorite spinnerbait rod is a 7' medium power fast action Avid.

Well I'd have to totally disagree with that. Almost every other reel manufacturer makes a reel under a hundred bucks with an aluminium frame....Daiwa, pflueger, lews, heck even quantum. The pflueger supreme has a magnesium frame and rotor and is much lighter than the nasci for the same price.

Yes I understand shimano's silly sales pitch terms. The problem is the nasci doesn't have a "hagane" body. It has the black coated forged main gear which they used to call paladin gear enhancement and now they call it "hagene" gear. That's why they say the nasci has "hagane". Look at a new ci4, it says hagene right on the side of the body. Does it have an aluminium body? Nope. This is all just a way for shimano to confuse consumers instead of just stating if a reel has an aluminum frame or not. The nasci definitely DOES NOT have an aluminum body. Go to shimano's site and click on the details page for the nasci, it says hagene gearing. Now click on the stradic, it says hagene body and hagene gearing.

That's the rod I was referring to, the trap caster. The regular version is cheaper and has fuji guides. The problem I had with the micro version was that the guides bent VERY easily. The also weren't straight at all with the blank from the factory.

Falcon bucoo 7' medium heavy moderate fast! An awesome rod for spinnerbaits and traps, and just about anything else you'd like to throw with it. Just stay away from the micro guide version, very low quality guides.

What's funny bud?

Definitely doesn't have an aluminum body! It has a composite body, your info is wrong. I also think your comment is hilarious since a few posts before his you say the nasci is the best 100 dollar reel. Do you own and fish every 100 dollar reel? Anyway....I've owned both, the nasci and the new daiwa bg, both 2500 size. The new bg is an awesome reel so far for the price, if it performs good for a few more months I will be buying more. It solid, smooth, and has a really good drag. The nasci has a lot of flex in the stem, and I guess shimano STILL hasn't resolved the binding problem because the first day I fished in a heavy rain it started binding by the end if the trip. It does have a really good drag though like all shimano's.

7' mh power mf action falcon bucoo rod!

I hope not! If they change the regular avids I will be spending a fortune to stockpile the current version.

I understand the retightening problem, Teflon tape is a quick fix. I have a lot of rods with reel seat like that, loomis, st croix avids, falcon, and many others. I've NEVER had one break or threads strip.

I was just pointing out the fact that you said the new Imx casting rods are built using "cheap ass plastic reel seats". Then you recommend the dobyns fury rod which uses the same type of fuji reel seat as the imx, actually a cheaper fuji reel seat. What modern rods do you know of that use an all aluminum or "alloy" reel seat like you mentioned? I've owned quite a few older and new loomis rods and other manufacturers rods with graphite seats like the ones in your first two pictures and never had a problem with any of them.

Hahaha the dobyns fury rods are amazing but you think the Imx rods have "cheap ass plastic" reel seats.