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At least you didn't drop kick him off the dock.

Besides form factor, I don't feel the Met B is much more capable than the Chronarch MGL. A shade better on lighter baits. Not a revelation performance-wise, but it's beautifully built, quite small, and light. If you're happy using SVS Infinity braking and MGL spools, you'll be happy with the Met. The Zillion G is a super Daiwa though. If you're happy fishing with Mag Z Tatulas, you'll be extremely happy fishing with the G and its SV boost braking. It's special, and the entire reel is ultra smooth. Both are luxury items, but neither reel will change your life. You can't go wrong with whichever one you choose. It simply comes down to which system you prefer fishing with. They're different.

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I'm not defending this price in any way as i don't know all the details. All I can say is this: If you're completely above board in the building trades, the true cost of doing business in this state is staggering.

Did that when I first got 'em. Low 40 degree water and freezing out. Had a long walk sloshing back to the truck through the woods, a creek, then some more woods. By then water wicked up to my works. Awesome. Needed to strip my jeans, socks, and underoos while parked on a side street. It was night, so I didn't frighten anyone or get jailed. Ended up driving home shivering, shriveled, and bottomless. Thankfully I caught them good beforehand. Learned my lesson.

Translucent jerkbait, lipless, small crankbait. Fluke.

They put a lot of salt in the bag, but the plastic isn't as salted thankfully. I rinse them off and wash the bag out. All it does is corrode hooks faster, IMO. They're more dense though, so the fall rate is good. They're thicker. The 6" is more like 5 3/8" L, so just a bit longer than a 5" Caffeine Shad, but with a bulkier body. Good flake colors too, which is nice for low light or night fishing. A little flash is the right thing at the right time. I get a lot of use out each bait rigging them on Owner Twistlock Light 5/0 or 6/0 which have a shallow bend and a long shank. Helps them come through junk cleanly.

I tried to sign in, got the security question, punched something in, fell asleep, and I wouldn't remember it if my life depended on it. Nice knowing y'all....sniff. P.S. Scratch that. I just remembered it and authenticated. Sorry to everyone who finds me annoying?

5" SK Caffeine Shad and 5'" or 6" Big Bite Baits Jerk Minnow. Both are heavy enough to rig weightless weed less and cast well and far on casting gear. I fish lakes that are grass filled shore to shore and the weight gets them deeper into the lettuce. Same with fishing them through Lily pads. I fish them drop-and-fall, or just drag them. Whichever way they want them.

If you enjoy fishing with it, then sure. It's safe to assume this reel has been sitting for a while. Maybe in a heated area. Grease and oil can migrate away from contact areas over time, or simply get gummy. It's definitely worth your while to give the gears, clutch mech, and bearings some lube. Do that and it'll work fine and keep working fine.

65 lb braid?

That was fast. Cool. Previous generation. Stay on top of the gear lube. Yes, late. Somehow it's called the 2020 TP LFS.

Big problem here on L.I., especially where I'm located. Most spots are less than a mile from the salt marshes/bays. I'm forced to wear a sweat jacket over a sweatshirt and a wool skull cap in the heat of the summer at night. This is the only way to escape lumps left on my scalp and bites everywhere else. They simply can't get through the thickness. A gaitor helps a little on my face, but not really. I need to spray my gloves every 20-30 minutes with Natrapel or else. I've had the back of my hands swell up from what seemed like hundreds of bites when I failed to spray, or ran out. I stay away from Deet. They go right through it anyway. They're ravenous, nearly unstoppable, it's horrible, but sweating is healthy.

I tried casting glove-less last night for a while. Whether I grip the handle with both hands for bombing, then climb my hand up into palming position, or semi-palm cast, no dial movement. I tried to do it by messing with a "for me" non-standard grip, but I needed to purposely aim for the dial to make it move. Hopefully you'll adjust.

Farting on command. Now that's talent.

Bring some kleenex first time out, and don't blame those tears tears of joy on low testosterone. We're all manly, and we cried too.

The last night of this cold front had us at 56*, zero wind, no bats, no bugs, and no surface activity whatsoever. With only 2 hours to fish, and only 15 minutes left to go, all I had was a big bluegill that snagged itself on a 3" Yozuri wake. How it got hooked between its pectoral fins I'll never know. Swam upside down? Really tough to get the hooks out. With only minutes before the buzzer, I tied on the trusty Shellcracker G2, Hail Mary'd it, and got a scrappy 3 pounder to play. Temps finally bumping way up to 85-90 this weekend, and I'm looking forward to bait fish back in the shallows again, and these post spawners finally getting fired up.

Please don't try to change him. Every forum needs a human whoopie cushion. Yeah, if the battery dies you don't need to mail it to Croatia(?) for repair.

I can only speak about what happens in my local super shallow spots, and I won't try to project this onto anywhere else. When I fish every night for several weeks in a row during the summer, the hot bite window shifts every night. I define a hot bite window as several bass in a zone that are competitively feeding and striking hard. Bite-and-run hits are the best indicator that there are multiple bass there, or several wolfpacks. Catch one and you'll probably catch more. If they're keyed in on tiny bait on the bottom where bites are subtle, there can still be a load of them in there, but the window remains the same at 20-40 minutes, then poof, it's over. They seem to gorge, then rest. One night this might begin at 9:30 pm, and the next it's at 3:00 am, or any time in between. Sometimes it's at twilight. One can try to connect the dots here, but predicting when is simply a gamble. I'm not claiming that singles aren't or can't be caught in between these windows, because they are. One hypothesis I have is that fast moving schools of crappie on the hunt drive bait which often activates the bass. Catch a few crappie quickly at night and there will be bass pulled into the zone by the frenzy. A floating jerkbait slowly reeled on the surface will usually attract crappie if they're around. If they bite, throw bass baits. My gamble is 9:00 pm through 3:00 am. I've had many 10 days or more of really good catching streaks during this time frame. More than once the place turned on at 2:45 am when we were dead on our feet, but then we just had to suck it up and stay. You've just have to put in the time. It's the only way to sort of figure things out. It's worth it for me. 95% of my bigs were caught at night.

I don't know whether I do this or not. I haven't moved the dial palm casting, but I always wear gloves, so maybe that's why. Less traction. I'll try casting gloveless and see what happens. Otherwise I'm glad the dial moves as easily as it does. I'm usually fishing at night, so a click up or down without changing position works out nicely.

Doesn't sound like it.

Great. After the monkey puts you in a headlock and forces you to get the standard Zillion G, and he will, please report on the differences between the MagZ boost spool and the SV boost spool. I have zero complaints about distance casting with SV boost. Light to heavier baits fly way out there beautifully with very little fuss. Just wondering what the Mag Z boost is about. I have yet to hear that articulated in any real detail.

There's an unwritten rule of the universe that if I like something it'll either be discontinued or "improved" into something I hate. Might be bottled iced tea, or portable saw horses. You name it, if I love it, it's doomed. I'd hate to be without my Magellan Sling pack. It's perfect for me as an addition to the other bags I saddle myself with, and especially by itself for pond hopping, but oddly I've neglected to grab a backup. Recently the universe slapped me upside the head again by vaporizing one of my favorite things, so with that reminder and Academy's father's day sale I chose not to delay any longer, and got me a back-up. Threw in some nice H2O tungsten weights for good luck, cause why not.?

I finally made it out again by the 4th day of this cold front. Overnight temps in the high 50s to low 60s have chilled the shallows and the shoreline is oddly devoid of baitfish and gills once again. There was some action way offshore though, so I tried a bunch of stuff to mimic baitfish up top, but bombing out a caffeine shad to the second weed line was the only thing that got any play. I either caught this mini 10 times, or they were his clones, but that was as good as it got. A dink-athon beats a skunk-athon, so I'll take it.