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TTT has them in stock and ships fast as lightning. Ends up being close to a wash with Daiwa's shipping. And the wait times, uhg.

Agree, and definitely on this reel. It's odd that some come in with bearings bone dry like my Tat SV did. I had a surprise short weather window last week to give mine a test run. Right before I spooled on the line I zero'd the brakes, depressed the clutch, then did the old finger-flick freespool test. Even with the zero adjuster backed off the spool stopped spinning quickly. I pulled sideplate and spool. Clear grease was visible on the outside of the inner races and shield junctions of the spool bearings. Stretched for time I just put a drop of oil in that spot on each bearing, then put it back together. After several flicks of the spool things began to open up. The oil cut the grease just enough for my purposes in that moment. A few hours of casting probably expressed some of the broken down mixture even further. It felt fine in the moment. It'll be getting the full treatment next week. It seems like it will help to keep water or debris out of the pinion bearing? I need to take a closer look. What's your take on it?

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It's $50 more. Different paint job, handle/knobs, and drag star material. Same performance as the standard Elite. Yeah, get a Zillion instead if you're going spend that much. Far more special factory and aftermarket spools drop right into the Zillion.

Nice! Share your impressions once you get out there with it. I'm going to try to catch a small window tonight before the rain hits. 20 mph southern wind is perfect for where I'm going. Hopefully I'll get some bites and give mine a workout. We're back into the freezer again plus high pressure for the next few overnights.

5.5:1 Right Handed only: H99-2301 (Drive Gear), H99-2201 (Pinion) $29.99 for the set.

Preamble I own or have fished with many current production reels from low to high priced. It has been my opinion for some time that few if any top end units actually deliver on what either marketing departments or hyperbolic internet criers claim they do. However, that doesn't mean I think they aren't worth their asking price. More on that later. Essentially, spending on the highest end reels doesn't provide the revelatory fishing experience one might expect based on the hype they get. My focus when grading performance focuses on consistent, repeatable casting performance. Think of a reel you'd prefer to fish in a tournament or at night. The nature of how I fish means I prefer reasonably long casting reels on rods ranging between 7-7'6". Measurable differences between low profile bait casters regarding distance casting is generally negligible in real world numbers, even if Internet reel testers proclaim that one reel blows another away by outdistancing it by 5 feet. As far as I'm concerned this is great news for people who love fishing but have budget constraints. If that's you then don't fret. You'll be just fine with what you can afford. Well-meaning discussions on internet forums regarding quality vs price often spiral out of control, but thankfully nothing quite as bad as it used to be on the net. Here at BassResource most posters who might be otherwise inclined to drop their gloves tend to temper their worst impulses when this subject comes up, whether their snobbery points up or downward. Regardless of different tastes, I doubt many could argue in good faith that they wouldn't have caught most of the fish they have caught using an ABU Black Max instead of a very expensive reel. I'm talking about use in typical freshwater bass fishing environments. All of this is old news to posters who've ridden this price vs quality rollercoaster time and again and have come to terms with the truth. Having said that, there's more to life than utilitarian exercises. For some people a reel is simply a thing that winds in line, and for others it's much more. Pride of ownership has its place in fishing too, even if for practical purposes the gap in actual fishing performance between price points is closer than ever before. The fact that I've formed the opinions expressed above seems to run contrary to purchasing a $359 reel, but I'm value oriented. It's true that I didn't take the "buy once cry once approach" to fishing gear purchases, but I'm curious and needed to satisfy that beast. With that I see the Zillion G as a value purchase. I like the idea of owning another heirloom quality reel that competes well in this regard to Daiwa's flagship Steez at nearly twice the price.. The Zillion's build elements tick all the boxes, so it should be good to go for some time. Initial review and quick test. I didn't expect the Zillion G to be this compact. I'm not overly concerned with reel size, but this was a neat surprise. People who enjoy playing reel-dress-up may wish to bling it out, but I'm fine with it's shape. Looks cool enough for me. I have a spool of 15lb Tatsu ready to go, but chose to spool it up with Sufix DNA Copolymer, which is quite stiff. Better to sacrifice the Sufix during a test run. I oiled the spool bearings, then mounted it on 7'3" MHF OB2, then headed down to a concrete-bulkhead-ringed and defrosted park pond. I brought an un-weighted Fat IKA, Beast Coast Miyagi Swimmer, and a Spro rat 40. A south wind was blowing 12 mph, so good for a fast test. IKAs cast like a bullet and cast far, and it did. I was able to get the brakes down to 4 casting directly into the wind on a high arc cast. Things got squirrelly, but with one click up on the dial the brakes kept things in check. No problem bombing out the Miyagi either. The retrieve was silky smooth, but the Rat is a better test. This reel is definitely smooth and quiet during retrieve on a midrange resistance bait like the 40. Very nice. "Of a piece" would be a good way to describe it. Overall, it feels, and is quite a bit more free-casting compared to the Tat SV, and it's definitely less "fall off a cliff" touchy when the brakes are lowered near the redline. I like this. I like a little warning before a spool blows up when I'm pushing it. I tossed a handful of midrange target casts and pitches and all was well. I thumbed it, but didn't need to raise brake settings above 5. I imagine setting 8 will be mindless-casting-mode for most lures, but I had limited time and I was freezing on this day. This nature of this pond is such that it doesn't allow for a proper skipping test, but I really didn't buy the G with this in mind. I can skip with most of my other reels without the aid of SV or DC gimmicks. Just like the rest of my reels, I'll come to completely understand what its wheelhouse is over time and use it there. I'll certainly entertain a few of the alternative spool options floating around. There are plenty of choices available for this 34 mm spooled platform, and this reel can be many things with a simple spool swap. A poster here claimed the brake dial's location causes it to change settings when he palmed it. No such issues here. Anyway, so far so good. No buyer's remorse. I'm quite happy.

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The 723 MHEF. It's very light at 3.3 oz. Fishes more like a medium +. I have a Tatula SV on mine. https://powellco.com/collections/casting-rods https://www.tacklewarehouse.com/catpage-POWELL.html?from=basres

I haven't looked at them as interchangeable/similar. If you do, that's OK. Whatever works is all that actually matters. I'd found the DS at a fishing show before I'd ever heard of them, so I wasn't influenced before I'd ever fished with them. Over time I've mixed up retrieve/presentation, but initially I needed to fish them fast in order to keep them just above the bottom to avoid snagging muck. Not necessarily burning them in, but still pretty fast using an eight speed reel. Hits usually come after bumping anything in its path. Total reaction strikes. I've caught a ton of bass, and Walleye too, fishing it this way from ice out through early summer where it becomes nearly unusable here. That said, I haven't caught many at all fishing it every other way imaginable. My initial success and love affair with it lead me to not want to put it down, and I really tried every other presentation I could think of. I'm not suggesting that you shouldn't do with it as you like, or that there's only one way. Just saying to give it a shot fishing it fast. This works very well here for me.

There's no way to predict their mood. If both options are available I always get both. Can't help it, but there's a reason. So many times where I thought I was fishing dead water, but then changed up slightly and hammered them good.

Good Move. It's not like you'll be making monster bomb casts anyway. Also, that reel can be a little sensitive to hard stop backlashes with braid when you're the running brakes on the hairy low end. This can happen with any reel, but the inductor ramp dogs like to shear on the Tat SV. It won't happen with nylon/fluoro lines though.

I always go straight whatever on the 200, but the 300 has an enlarged guide over standard sized T wings. It's not guaranteed to be a problem with the Tat SV each time, but the knot can hang sometimes. Enough to be annoying, especially with heavier lines.

I saw him mention that somewhere then remembered I scored one bag at a flea market awhile back. They're quite durable. I had one rigged on a Blk/Blu Project Z Weedless for months and it held up perfectly to fish, sparse pads, and junk. I lost the Z with the trailer on a zoned-out over-run/lockup one night a few months ago. Straight braid. Down to seven pcs, but they last.

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Mine either. The OP's 7'1" kinda eliminated that possibility anyway. Just pointing out a real world line cap example and this reel. Skip the braid and go to straight 17lb Copolymer or Fluoro. There will be no difference between the two types regarding invisibility at the diameter of that pound test. Your less than 6' leader will get eaten up quickly with lure changes. That reel will not pass a leader knot well with larger diameter line.

AJ I have that reel, and normally I'd agree with you and wouldn't think of using it myself for this application. However, I've been watching Milliken on YT chucking huge A-Rigs on a long H rod using that reel and catching giant bass all year long. Go figure. The OP certainly won't be throwing 2oz baits on a 7'1" MH, so he might be just fine with the baits he'll be able to throw on it.

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I'm not sure fun has anything to do with it. That's just window dressing. The better question may be why do people hunt in a modern society, especially if they don't need to because of industrial meat processing. Ten different people might offer ten different answers based on their point of view. Some of those answers might be flowery, and some might be perceived as somewhat callous, and everything in between. With the exception of a tiny minority of sadistic nutjobs who actually enjoy killing, most people truly have no idea why they do it, even if they think they do. Some people don't question their nature, and others struggle with it. The answer is simple though. Just like the ability to speak, it's in the program. That's all. That's it. The program is ancient, powerful, and it's in every one of us. It hovers right below vanity and virtue. Even if it hurts your heart to think of killing an animal yourself, you would in a second if the lights went out for long enough. After a while, or possibly right away, you might even get a rush out of it. Pure adrenaline. Pleasure. None of this makes a person either bad or good, it's just who we all truly are, even if you can't imagine it.

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This works too for at home storage. Hook bonnets keep staggering drunks and old folks from getting velcro'd to the wall.

3 pack. The 2 below the Rigged Miyagi are Death Wish Swimmers. I do well with the Storm 360 GT 1/8oz in open cold water if they're short striking the Hazedongs. P.S. No rivers 'round here, but that looks good. I've got some of these on the way to try to salvage the piles of 4" Easy Shiners I have that are collecting dust. I need weedless rigging around here for the majority of the season.

I can't get bit for nuthin' around here on Keitechs or their knockoffs or anything else without silver eyes. The champ swimmers shown are about to get some glued on. Must be the extra flash, or the fish here are highly conditioned and resistant to standard eye-less swimmers.